title: Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the genomic DNA encoding the protein phosphatase cdc25 in Dictyostelium discoideum.
abstract: A genomic DNA ( Dd-cdc25) encoding the protein phosphatase cdc25 was isolated from the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. The Dd-cdc25 DNA sequence, with a length of 2,958 bp, encodes a protein consisting of 986 amino acid (aa) residues. The sequence shares significant identities with cdc25 from human, mouse, Xenopus, Drosophila, and Shizosaccharomyces pombe, particularly at the C-terminal region including the catalytic site for phosphatase activity. The deduced Dictyostelium cdc25 protein (Dd-cdc25) has the highest molecular mass (109.9 kDa) in several cdc25 species so far reported and contains four regions consisting of unusually long asparagine repeats (22-31) in the sequence. Unexpectedly, however, Western blot analysis using a specific antibody raised against the C terminus (aa 892-986) of Dd-cdc25 demonstrated that the protein exists as a short form (56 kDa), which has the C-terminal active site of phosphatase, during the course of Dictyostelium development. The Western blot analysis also revealed marked changes in the phosphorylated state of the Dd-cdc25, coupling with cellular development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan. taira@biology.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mayanagi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arakane
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amagai
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017931:DNA Primers; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000235:genetics*; D015870:Gene Expression; D015723:Gene Library; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D020687:cdc25 Phosphatases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D020687:cdc25 Phosphatases