Structure and tissue-specific developmental expression of a sea urchin arylsulfatase gene.
Structure and tissue-specific developmental expression of a sea urchin arylsulfatase gene.
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海胆芳基硫酸酯酶基因的结构和组织特异性发育表达。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(89)90157-7
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Angerer,RC
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作者:
Yang,Q;Angerer,LM;Angerer,RC
Arylsulfatases are a group of enzymes that remove sulfate moieties from a diverse set of substrates including glycoproteins, steroids, and cerebrosides. We have isolated recombinant cDNA clones corresponding to an arylsulfatase (SpARS) message that encodes an abundant protein of pluteus larvae of the sea urchinStrongylocentrotus purpuratus. Although vertebrate arylsulfatases have broad tissue distributions,in situhybridization with a probe for SpARS shows that the sea urchin message accumulates in the embryo only in the single cell type of aboral ectoderm and its precursors. The message is first detectable by RNase protection assays around hatching blastula stage and accumulates through pluteus larva stage. The open reading frame of cDNA clones is 1701 nt long and encodes a deduced protein with a predicted molecular mass of 61 kDa. Analysis of corresponding genomic DNA clones reveals that the pre-mRNA contains six exons. Consistent with the fact that arylsulfatase enzyme activity is extracellular, this polypeptide has a hydrophobic leader sequence and three potential glycosylation sites. Furthermore, hybridizationin situshows that in blastulae arylsulfatase message is preferentially concentrated around nuclei at the basal sides of cells. TheS. purpuratussequence is very similar to that recently reported for the same enzyme fromHemicentrotus pulcherrimusand 30% of the amino acid residues are also identical to those of both human arylsulfatase C (steroid sulfatase) and arylsulfatase A. Sequence relationships among these four mRNAs suggest that, assuming equal rates of evolution, the duplication separating the human genes occurred at about the time of separation of the echinoderm and vertebrate lineages.