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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-9-4
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Brown adipose tissue and skeletal muscle are important sites of non-shivering thermogenesis. It has been known that UCP1 and UCP2 function as the main effector of the thermogenesis: the former is expressed exclusively in brown adipose tissue, whereas the latter is distributed widely. Recently, the third UCP homologue was discovered in humans, which was designated as UCP3. We now report molecular cloning of full-length mouse UCP3 cDNA and its 5'-flanking genomic region. The mouse UCP3 cDNA sequence predicted a 308-amino acid protein, and the overall identity between the mouse and human UCP3 proteins was 85.6%. The mouse UCP3 amino acid sequence was 54.7% and 73.1% identical to the mouse UCP1 and UCP2, respectively. Expression of the mouse UCP3 was found to be abundant in skeletal muscle and somewhat less abundant in heart, but was minimally expressed in other critical organs. The sequences of 5'-flanking regions of the mouse UCP1 and UCP3 were very different, resulting in different distributions of putative transcriptional factor binding sites. The differences could reflect tissue-specific expression of the UCPs. The mouse Ucp3 gene was mapped near Ucp2 on chromosome 7, suggesting that the Ucp2 and Ucp3 are clustered genes. This region is boundary of synteny between human chromosome 11q13 and 11p15. As Solanes et al. reported that both human UCP2 and UCP3 genes are assigned to chromosome 11q13, the region where the mouse Ucp2 and Ucp3 are localized is syntenic to human chromosome 11q13.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0378-1119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
215
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
77-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Chromosomes, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Ion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Mitochondrial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9666083-Tissue Distribution
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Cloning of mouse uncoupling protein 3 cDNA and 5'-flanking region, and its genetic map.
pubmed:affiliation
Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3, Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan. h1-yoshitomi@eisai.co.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article