title: Cloning, expression analysis, and structural characterization of seven novel human ADAMTSs, a family of metalloproteinases with disintegrin and thrombospondin-1 domains.
abstract: ADAMTS (A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase domain, with ThromboSpondin type-1 modules) is a recently described family of zinc-dependent proteases which play important roles in a variety of normal and pathological conditions, including arthritis and cancer. In this work, we report the identification and cloning of cDNAs encoding seven new human ADAMTSs. These novel enzymes have been called ADAMTS-13, -14, -15, -16, -17, -18, and -19. All of them show a domain organization similar to that of previously characterized family members, consisting of a signal sequence, a propeptide, a metalloproteinase domain, a disintegrin-like domain, a cysteine-rich region, and a variable number of TS-1 repeats. Expression analysis revealed that these ADAMTS genes are mainly expressed in fetal tissues, especially in lung (ADAMTS14, ADAMTS16, ADAMTS17, ADAMTS18, and ADAMTS19), kidney (ADAMTS14, ADAMTS15, and ADAMTS16), and liver (ADAMTS13, ADAMTS15 and ADAMTS18). Reverse transcriptase--polymerase chain reaction analysis also revealed the expression of some of these new ADAMTSs in different human adult tissues, such as prostate (ADAMTS13, ADAMTS17, and ADAMTS18), and brain (ADAMTS13, ADAMTS16, ADAMTS17, and ADAMTS18). High levels of ADAMTSs transcripts were also observed in some tumor biopsies and cells lines, including osteosarcomas (ADAMTS19), melanoma and colon carcinoma cells (ADAMTS13). Chromosomal location analysis indicated that the seven identified ADAMTS genes are dispersed in the human genome mapping to 9q34, 10q21, 11q25, 5p15, 15q24, 16q23, and 5q31, respectively. According to these results, together with a comparative analysis of ADAMTSs in other eukaryotic organisms, we conclude that these enzymes, with at least 18 distinct members encoded within the human genome, represent an example of a widely expanded protease family during metazoan evolution.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006, Oviedo, Spain.
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cal
authors.forename: Alvaro J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Obaya
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Llamazares
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garabaya
authors.forename: Víctor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Quesada
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López-Otín
mesh_terms: D051722:ADAM Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D000071096:ADAMTS Proteins; D000328:Adult; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003545:Cysteine / Q000235:genetics; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D019483:Disintegrins / Q000235:genetics*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D019700:Thrombospondin 1 / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D019483:Disintegrins; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D019700:Thrombospondin 1; D051722:ADAM Proteins; D000071096:ADAMTS Proteins; C510098:ADAMTS16 protein, human; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases; D003545:Cysteine