title: Expression of 53BP2 and ASPP2 proteins from TP53BP2 gene by alternative splicing.
abstract: The p53 binding protein 2 (53BP2) has been initially identified as an interacting protein to p53 and subsequent studies have shown that it also interacts with Bcl-2 and NF-kappaB p65 subunit. We have previously found that the TP53BP2 gene encoding 53BP2 protein is a single copy gene and has been mapped to the long arm of chromosome 1 at q42.1. The subsequent studies revealed that TP53BP2 encodes two proteins, 53BP2 and ASPP2, of 1005 and 1128 amino acids, respectively. ASPP2 contains additional 123 amino acids to the N-terminus of 53BP2. In this study, we have examined the genomic organization of TP53BP2 transcripts and found that it encodes two mRNA species, either with (53BP2) or without exon 3 (ASPP2), by alternative splicing in various cell lines and tissues. Thus, we propose to call these proteins as 53BP2S (short) and 53BP2L (long), respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kitagori
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: Yurina
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hibi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamoto
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D002460:Cell Line; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C090468:TP53BP2 protein, human