title: Molecular cloning and expression of a novel klotho-related protein.
abstract: Klotho protein is a novel beta-glucosidase-like protein produced predominantly in the kidney. The klotho mouse, which genetically lacks klotho gene expression, manifests various systemic phenotypes resembling aging. In the present study we succeeded in isolating a novel human protein structurally related to klotho protein. The protein possesses one beta-glucosidase-like domain and is 42% identical with klotho protein at the amino acid level. Unlike klotho protein, it possesses neither a signal sequence nor a transmembrane domain, suggesting that it is a cytosolic protein, and thus was termed cytosolic beta-glucosidase-like protein-1 (cBGL1). By Northern blot analysis cBGL1 mRNA was expressed most abundantly in the liver, followed by the small intestine, colon, spleen, and kidney. When klotho and cBGL1 gene expression was examined in renal cell carcinoma tissues, both klotho and cBGL1 mRNA levels in tumors were lower than those in nontumor regions, suggesting that renal epithelial cells may lose klotho and cBGL1 gene expression during the course of malignant transformation. In conclusion, we describe the primary structure and gene expression of a novel protein related to klotho protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yahata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koide
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mukoyama
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozaki
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nabeshima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakao
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005260:Female; D005966:Glucuronidase; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000378:metabolism; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D000090265:Klotho Proteins; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D001617:beta-Glucosidase / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C424266:GBA3 protein, human; D001617:beta-Glucosidase; D005966:Glucuronidase; D000090265:Klotho Proteins