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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-23
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The immunoglobulin kappa locus (Ig kappa) is active only in the B-lymphocyte cell lineage. By exon-trapping we found a gene situated downstream from the murine Ig kappa locus. This gene encodes a protein with 53% sequence identity to the ribose 5-phosphate isomerase A (RPI-A) of Escherichia coli and is therefore likely to be the murine homologue (mRPI) of this enzyme. We confirmed this assumption by showing that a glutathione S-transferase (GST)::mRPI fusion protein has enzymatic activity and that an anti-mRPI antibody detects a protein of the predicted mass of RPI (33 kDa). Cloning and sequencing of the human counterpart show that the RPI gene is evolutionarily conserved. The expression of mRPI is not influenced by the rearrangement status of the Ig kappa locus in B cells and mRPI is expressed in all tissues. We thus show that two genes with very different expression patterns, a housekeeping gene and a gene expressed in a tissue-specific manner, can be located on a chromosome in close proximity to each other.
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
24
pubmed:volume
156
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
191-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Aldose-Ketose Isomerases, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Carbohydrate Epimerases, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Conserved Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Genes, Immunoglobulin, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Genomic Library, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Ribosemonophosphates, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:7758956-Tissue Distribution
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
The ribose 5-phosphate isomerase-encoding gene is located immediately downstream from that encoding murine immunoglobulin kappa.
pubmed:affiliation
Max-Planck-Institut für Immunobiologie, Freiburg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study