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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-6
pubmed:abstractText
Protein synthesis is regulated in response to environmental stimuli by covalent modification, phosphorylating the components of the translational machinery. Phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eIF-2 is one of the best-characterized mechanisms for down-regulating protein synthesis in higher eukaryotes in response to various stress conditions. One of mammalian eIF-2alpha kinases is a heme-regulated inhibitor kinase (HRI), which is activated by heme deficiency and plays an important role in translational control. In this work, we have analyzed the differentially expressed genes between epithelial ovarian cancer and normal ovary. We have screened a total of 1,408 genes isolated from a human dermal papilla cell cDNA library by cDNA array hybridization. Among many differentially expressed genes, eIF2alpha kinase, a heme regulated inhibitor was down-regulated in ovarian epithelium cancer. The down-regulation of hHRI was also confirmed in other ovarian cancer tissues by Northern blot hybridization. The hHRI gene is 2,887 bp in length and the amino acid sequence deduced from the cDNA clone encodes a protein of 630 amino acids with molecular mass of 73 kDa. It contains all 12 catalytic domains of the protein kinases with consensus sequences of the protein-serine/threonine kinases. The expression pattern of hHRI mRNA showed approximately 3.0 kb bands which were expressed ubiquitously in all human tissues examined, which indicates that eIF-2alpha kinase could play an important role in the translational regulation of nonerythroid tissues.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1016-8478
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
584-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Catalytic Domain, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Conserved Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Ovarian Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Ovary, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Prostate, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-Skin, pubmed-meshheading:11101152-eIF-2 Kinase
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Cloning of hHRI, human heme-regulated eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha kinase: down-regulated in epithelial ovarian cancers.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Immunology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Taegu, Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article