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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-22
pubmed:abstractText
Transferrin was isolated from plasma of the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi by ion-exchange chromatography. The molecular weight of the plasma transferrin was determined to be 52K by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and gel filtration. Ascidian plasma transferrin was found to bind one mole of iron ion per mole of protein. The reductive S-pyridylethylated transferrin was subjected to Edman degradation analysis for determination of the N-terminal amino acid sequence, and it was also subjected to proteolytic fragmentation to yield peptide fragments, whose amino acid sequences were determined by Edman degradation analysis. Using the above amino acid sequences, a cDNA clone (1880 base pairs) encoding a protein of 372 amino acids containing a signal peptide of 21 amino acids was isolated from an H. roretzi hepatopancreas cDNA library. The reduced amino acid sequence contains the same sequences of the peptide fragments. A comparison of the amino acid sequence of ascidian transferrin with those of other members of the transferrin family revealed that the ascidian transferrin is composed of only the N-terminal lobe of two-lobed vertebrate transferrins. Thus, a one-lobed transferrin is present in the ascidian H. roretzi.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1096-4959
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
128
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
73-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Chromatography, Ion Exchange, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Iron, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Sequence Analysis, Protein, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Transferrin, pubmed-meshheading:11163306-Urochordata
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation, characterization and cDNA cloning of a one-lobed transferrin from the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, 060-0812, Sapporo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't