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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-5-4
pubmed:abstractText
The flt-1 tyrosine kinase gene encodes a high affinity receptor for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, and belongs to the so-called '7-Ig' or flt gene family which has characteristics of 7-Immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domains in the extracellular region. This is structurally distantly related to 5-Ig domain-containing receptors such as Fms/Kit/PDGF-R. However, the whole genomic organization for any 7-Ig receptor gene has not been determined yet. To examine the genomic structure of flt-1 and the evolutionary relationship between genes of the 7-Ig and 5-Ig receptor families, we isolated the mouse genomic DNAs carrying all exons of the flt-1 gene. The mouse flt-1 gene consisted of 30 exons, whose exon-intron boundaries were highly related to those in the 5-Ig receptor genes, except for the amino terminal region. The sequences corresponding to the first and second Ig-domains in the flt-1 gene were encoded by four exons, whereas this region was encoded by only two exons in the 5-Ig receptor genes. These results raise the interesting possibility that deletion or insertion mutations of introns in one of these receptor genes took place in the evolutionary generation of the other receptor genes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0378-1119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
208
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
297-305
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Endothelial Growth Factors, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Lung, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Lymphokines, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Multigene Family, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Receptors, Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-1, pubmed-meshheading:9524283-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Genomic organization of the flt-1 gene encoding for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor-1 suggests an intimate evolutionary relationship between the 7-Ig and the 5-Ig tyrosine kinase receptors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genetics, University of Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't