title: Structural analysis of cDNAs coding for 4SNc-Tudor domain protein from fish and their expression in yellowtail organs.
abstract: We cloned complementary DNAs for 4SNc-Tudor protein (SN4TDR) from yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata), torafugu (Takifugu rubripes), and zebrafish (Danio rerio). This protein contains 4 staphylococcal nuclease domains at the N terminus followed by a Tudor domain. We also identified the 4SNc-Tudor proteins highly homologous to that in yellowtail from the Takifugu genomic database. According to the smart database, these fish proteins had an overlapping Tudor domain (smart00333) with a complete 5 SNc domain (smart00318). In addition, 2 possible translation start sites were observed at the 5' sequences in all 3 fish species. Northern blot analysis of different yellowtail organs showed that the full SN4TDR messenger RNA was approximately 4000 nucleotides long and that its expression was highest in liver and gallbladder, being about 2 to 5 times higher than in kidney, brain, ovary, and gills, and exceedingly low in spleen, heart, and muscle. A minor 2000-nucleotide transcript observed in kidney, spleen, and gallbladder, was attributable to an alternatively spliced variant of this gene. Total proteins extracted from yellowtail liver were fractionated by heparin affinity column chromatography and separated by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Analyses by SDS-PAGE and liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectroscopy identified the polypeptide encoded by SN4TDR as a single molecule of 102 kDa.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, 790-8566, Japan. abe@mcb.agr.ehime-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shunnosuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Pi-Lin
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Fuminori
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sasaki
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D040461:Gene Components; D005880:Gills / Q000378:metabolism; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014781:Viscera / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011506:Proteins