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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-9-23
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Nuclear hormone receptors (NRs) are ligand-inducible transcription factors that mediate critical functions in many species. The majority of novel NRs have hitherto been cloned from cDNA libraries by virtue of their homology to previously identified receptors. In this study, we validate a genomic DNA-based approach to isolating NRs by cloning the retinoic acid receptor-alpha (RARalpha) gene from the genome of the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu rubripes. The fRARalpha gene is more compact than its human and murine counterparts and demonstrates a highly conserved genomic organisation and amino acid sequence, generating two isoforms (fRARalpha1 and fRARalpha2) with divergent aminoterminal domains. In addition, a conserved regulatory element containing a retinoic acid response element was identified upstream of the fRARalpha2-specific exon, implying that retinoid induction of this isoform is evolutionarily conserved and critical to its function in vivo. We propose two uses for the Fugu genome in the study of NRs: the isolation of novel NRs that exhibit restricted spatio-temporal expression from genomic DNA and the identification of evolutionarily conserved promoter or intragenic regulatory DNA elements.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0378-1119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
236
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
315-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-9-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Cosmids, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Fishes, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Multigene Family, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Receptors, Retinoic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:10452951-Transfection
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation and characterisation of the retinoic acid receptor-alpha gene in the Japanese pufferfish, F. rubripes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Level 5, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't