title: Cloning and expression of the human single copy homologue of the mouse zinc finger protein zfr.
abstract: A human homologue of the murine zinc finger protein zfr is transcriptionally induced in the Epstein-Barr virus-positive Burkitt lymphoma cell line Raji upon treatment with the granulocyte/macrophage lineage ganglioside IV(3)NeuAc-nLcOse(4)Cer. The gene was cloned by a rapid amplification of cDNA ends approach based on a cDNA clone. The resulting hzfr sequence is 3393 base pairs in length coding for a protein of 1057 amino acids. Sequence alignments between hzfr and zfr reveal an identity of 92% on the nucleotide level and an identity of 96.4% on the amino acid level, respectively. Based on Southern blot data hzfr can be addressed as a single copy gene. Tissue-specific expression was determined by semi-quantitative PCR of normalized cDNA populations from various human tissues with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase as an internal control. Highest levels of transcripts were found in brain. hzfr transcripts could not be detected in skeletal muscle.
authors.affiliation: Division of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kleines
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gärtner
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ritter
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schaade
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005732:Gangliosides / Q000494:pharmacology; D018628:Gene Dosage; D015870:Gene Expression; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D005732:Gangliosides; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; C485556:ZFR protein, human; C118208:ZFR protein, mouse; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA