title: Cloning, chromosomal mapping, and characteristic 5'-UTR sequence of murine cytosolic sialidase.
abstract: We have totally sequenced a cytosolic sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] by RT-PCR from the murine thymus (murine thymic sialidase, MTS) which has a 1844-base length (encoding 385 amino acids including two sialidase motifs) and is the longest cytosolic sialidase ever reported. MTS has high and relatively low homologies with those of mammalian cytosolic sialidases from the mouse brain (99%), rat (91%), and human skeletal muscle (75%), and those of the mouse lysosomal (47%) and membrane-bound (51%) sialidases, respectively. Chromosomal mapping, being the first report of mouse cytosolic sialidase gene, showed that the MTS gene is localized to the distal part of mouse chromosome 1D and to rat chromosome 9q36. RT-PCR with the site-specific primers revealed that the coding region was expressed in all organs tested, but expressions including the 5'-UTR were barely detectable except for in the upper-thymic fraction. Also, soluble sialidase activity in the thymus was the highest of these organs. There were mRNA instability signals and AT-rich regions in 143 bp of MTS 5'-end.
authors.affiliation: Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-15 Nishi-7, Kitaku, Sapporo, 060-0815, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kotani
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuroiwa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kijimoto-Ochiai
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D020856:AT Rich Sequence; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009439:Neuraminidase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D012313:RNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D020871:RNA Stability; D051381:Rats; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D012313:RNA; D009439:Neuraminidase