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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-20
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Haspin is a serine/threonine kinase, recently identified in mice, that is thought to regulate cell cycle and differentiation of haploid germ cells. Here, the haspin gene is identified within an intron of the integrin alphaE gene. Transcription occurs from a bi-directional CpG island-associated promoter that also generates an alternatively spliced integrin alphaE derived RNA. Remarkably, the human and murine haspin genes lack introns, and have features of retroposons. The human haspin cDNA reveals that the human and murine proteins are 83% identical in the C-terminal kinase domain, but only 53% identical in the N-terminal region. The haspin kinase domain has structural features that distinguish it from previously characterized proteins and suggest that haspin is a member of a new family of protein kinases. Although formerly thought to be expressed selectively in the testes, haspin is also transcribed at lower levels in thymus, bone marrow, fetal liver and other fetal tissues, and in all proliferating cell lines tested. Thus haspin is likely to be important in regulation of diploid as well as haploid cell differentiation in a variety of tissues.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0378-1119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
267
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
55-69
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Alternative Splicing, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Antigens, CD, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Diploidy, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Haploidy, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Integrin alpha Chains, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Jurkat Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Tissue Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:11311556-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
The Haspin gene: location in an intron of the integrin alphaE gene, associated transcription of an integrin alphaE-derived RNA and expression in diploid as well as haploid cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Smith Building, Room 538D, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jhiggins@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't