1. Genomic structure and chromosomal localization of TCEAL1, a human gene encoding the nuclear phosphoprotein p21/SIIR.
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Pillutla RC, Shimamoto A, Furuichi Y, and Shatkin AJ
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- Animals, Chickens, Chromosome Banding, Chromosome Mapping, DNA chemistry, DNA genetics, Exons, Female, HeLa Cells, Humans, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Introns, Male, Mice, Molecular Sequence Data, RNA, Messenger genetics, RNA, Messenger metabolism, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Tissue Distribution, Tumor Cells, Cultured, DNA-Binding Proteins genetics, Genes genetics, Nuclear Proteins genetics, Phosphoproteins genetics, Transcription Factors genetics, X Chromosome genetics
- Abstract
Human p21/SIIR is a novel Ser/Arg/Pro-rich nuclear phosphoprotein that is 48% similar to transcription factor SII and modulates transcription in a promoter context-dependent fashion. We have obtained the complete sequence of TCEAL1, the gene that codes for p21/SIIR. This gene consists of three exons and two introns with the entire coding sequence in exon III. Tissue-specific expression patterns of TCEAL1 by Northern blot analysis showed the presence of an approximately 1.2-kb transcript in all normal human tissues examined, and heart and skeletal muscle contained an additional transcript of approximately 7 kb. Expression was lowest in hematopoietic cells of both normal and tumor origin. TCEAL1 was mapped to human chromosome Xq22.1 by fluorescence in situ hybridization., (Copyright 1999 Academic Press.)
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- 1999
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