Identification and characterization of the inducible murine mast cell gene, imc-415
Identification and characterization of the inducible murine mast cell gene, imc-415
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DOI:
10.1006/bbrc.1998.9609
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发表时间:
1998-11-09
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Oh, CK
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作者:
Cho, SH;Cho, JJ;Oh, CK
Activation of mast cells results in the generation and release of bioactive mediators which in turn initiate allergic inflammation. Mast cell function is enhanced following stimulation in part because of the induction of specific genes and their products. To identify additional genes induced in mast cells that support this process, we thus constructed an activation-specific mast cell subtraction library. To date, we have isolated 26 novel inducible murine mast cell time) cDNA clones. Among them, a full-coding region of the murine gene imc-415 was found to have a greater than 90% nueleotide sequence homology and a 97.5% amino acid sequence homology to both a human beta(4) integrin-binding protein (p27(BBP)) and a human translation initiation factor 6 (eIF6), which in turn are identical. In vitro translation of the imc-415 gene yielded a band of an approximately 26 kDa. This is the same as the calculated molecular weight of murine IMC-415 protein based on the predicted amino acid sequence and is the molecular weight of p27(BBP)/eIF6. Murine imc-415 message was also induced in inflamed lung tissues in a mouse model of asthma. These results suggest a role for murine imc-415 in allergic inflammation where it may enhance protein synthesis. Human eIF6/p27(BBP) may also play a role in allergic diseases based on the similarities in sequence and in gene expression patterns, (C) 1998 Academic Press.