title: Setagin and secretagogin-R22: Posttranscriptional modification products of the secretagogin gene.
abstract: We describe two new variants of the recently identified hexa-EF-hand calcium binding protein secretagogin. The first variant (secretagogin-R22) is characterized by one single amino acid exchange (Q/R) at codon 22, most likely due to RNA editing. The second variant of secretagogin (setagin) consists of 49 amino acids. Due to a frame shift, only the first 27 amino acids are identical to secretagogin. We demonstrate that this protein truncation results in complete loss of the calcium binding capacity. Setagin expression was found in considerable amounts in the pancreas whereas secretagogin and secretagogin-R22 were also found in the central nervous system and organs containing neurendocrine cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine III, University of Vienna, Vienna A-1090, Austria.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zierhut
authors.forename: Teodora
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Daneva
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gartner
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brunnmaier
authors.forename: Ivelina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mineva
authors.forename: Tord
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Berggård
authors.forename: Ludwig
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D064046:Secretagogins; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C576556:SCGN protein, human; D064046:Secretagogins; D002118:Calcium