{"title":"Molecular cloning and characterization of a mouse homolog of human TNFSF14, a member of the TNF superfamily.","authors":"K Misawa, T Nosaka, T Kojima, M Hirai, T Kitamura","doi":"10.1159/000015570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000015570","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily, human TNFSF14 (hTNFSF14)/HVEM-L (herpes virus entry mediator ligand) was isolated as a cellular ligand for HVEM/TR2 and human lymphotoxin beta receptor (LTbetaR). TNFSF14 induces apoptosis and suppresses tumor formation. We have isolated a cDNA clone for a mouse homologue of hTNFSF14 by signal sequence trap (SST) screening which we recently developed. The deduced amino acid sequence of the mouse TNFSF14 (mTNFSF14) cDNA comprised 239 amino acid residues and was 77% identical to the hTNFSF14 protein. In Northern blot analysis, 2.1 kb and 4.2kb mTNFSF14 transcripts were detected in spleen and lung, and in heart, respectively. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis localized the mTNFSF14 gene Tnfsf14 to chromosome 17 which is tightly linked with Tnf, Lta, and Ltb.</p>","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"89 1-2","pages":"89-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000015570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21737099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H S Kim, J Y Choi, A R Jung, K L Jang, W H Lee, W C Choi, T J Crow, B H Hyun
{"title":"Assignment of the human RhoHP1 gene (ARHD) to chromosome 11q14.3 by radiation hybrid mapping.","authors":"H S Kim, J Y Choi, A R Jung, K L Jang, W H Lee, W C Choi, T J Crow, B H Hyun","doi":"10.1159/000015562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000015562","url":null,"abstract":"The Rho (represents Ras homologous) related protein HP1 (RhoHP1) was isolated from a human placenta cDNA library. RhoHP1 showed 50–54% sequence homology to members of the Rho family (Shimizu et al.,1997). The Rho proteins directly interact with protein kinases, which may serve as downstream effector targets of the activated GTPase (Vincent et al., 1997). The Rho family proteins play a critical role in muscle differentiation by regulating the expression of the myogenin and MEF2 genes (Takano et al., 1998). In this report, a radiation hybrid mapping panel was used to assign the RhoHP1 gene ARHD (ras homolog gene family, member D) to chromosome 11q14.3.","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"89 1-2","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000015562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21737197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Schmid, I Nanda, M Guttenbach, C Steinlein, M Hoehn, M Schartl, T Haaf, S Weigend, R Fries, J M Buerstedde, K Wimmers, D W Burt, J Smith, S A'Hara, A Law, D K Griffin, N Bumstead, J Kaufman, P A Thomson, T Burke, M A Groenen, R P Crooijmans, A Vignal, V Fillon, M Morisson, F Pitel, M Tixier-Boichard, K Ladjali-Mohammedi, J Hillel, A Mäki-Tanila, H H Cheng, M E Delany, J Burnside, S Mizuno
{"title":"First report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2000.","authors":"M Schmid, I Nanda, M Guttenbach, C Steinlein, M Hoehn, M Schartl, T Haaf, S Weigend, R Fries, J M Buerstedde, K Wimmers, D W Burt, J Smith, S A'Hara, A Law, D K Griffin, N Bumstead, J Kaufman, P A Thomson, T Burke, M A Groenen, R P Crooijmans, A Vignal, V Fillon, M Morisson, F Pitel, M Tixier-Boichard, K Ladjali-Mohammedi, J Hillel, A Mäki-Tanila, H H Cheng, M E Delany, J Burnside, S Mizuno","doi":"10.1159/000056772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000056772","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"90 3-4","pages":"169-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000056772","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21946194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T E Whitmore, M F Maurer, S Sexson, F Raymond, D Conklin, T A Deisher
{"title":"Assignment of fibroblast growth factor 18 (FGF18) to human chromosome 5q34 by use of radiation hybrid mapping and fluorescence in situ hybridization.","authors":"T E Whitmore, M F Maurer, S Sexson, F Raymond, D Conklin, T A Deisher","doi":"10.1159/000056775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000056775","url":null,"abstract":"FGF18 is a recently discovered member of the fibroblast growth factor family (Deisher et al., 1999). FGF18 has been reported to induce hepatic and intestinal proliferation in vivo (Hu et al., 1998), and to activate neural cell proliferation in vitro (Ohbayashi et al., 1998). Recently, FGF18 was mapped to both human chromosome 14p11 (Hu et al., 1999), and chromosome 5 (Sanger Centre, NCBI GeneMap’99). To help resolve this discrepancy, we carried out radiation hybrid mapping using both the GeneBridge 4 and the Stanford G3 human/hamster radiation hybrid mapping panels and fluorescence in situ hybridization using a human genomic BAC clone containing the FGF18 gene.","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"90 3-4","pages":"231-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000056775","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21946197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Samiotaki, N A Balatsos, N Courtis, C M Tsiapalis
{"title":"Assignment of the 100-kDa subunit of cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor (CPSF2) to human chromosome 14q31.3 by radiation hybrid mapping.","authors":"M Samiotaki, N A Balatsos, N Courtis, C M Tsiapalis","doi":"10.1159/000056798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000056798","url":null,"abstract":"The generation of a new 3) end is part of the eukaryotic premRNA maturation process, in which a poly(A) tail is added by two coupled reactions: endonucleolytic cleavage at the poly(A) site followed by the polyadenylation of the upstream cleaved product (Wahle and Kuhn, 1997). A multicomponent complex sufficient to complete the 3) processing reactions is comprised of Cleavage and Polyadenylation Specificity Factor (CPSF), CstF (Cleavage stimulation Factor), CF Im (Cleavage Factor I), CF IIm (Cleavage Factor II), PAP (Poly(A) polymerase) and PABP2 (PolyA Binding Protein 2). Most of the proteins involved in this finely orchestrated process have been purified and extensively studied (Wahle and Rüegsegger, 1999). CPSF consists of four subunits of 160, 100, 73 and 30 kDa. The exact function of the 100-kDa CPSF subunit is still unknown, while its presence is essential for the maturation process (Jenny et al., 1994). The full length of the human CPSF 100-kDa subunit cDNA was cloned by Nagase et al. (2000) (GenBank accession number AB037788.1), while its bovine homologue was cloned by Jenny et al. (1994) (GenBank accession number X75931).","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"90 3-4","pages":"328-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000056798","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21946445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HP1gamma associates with euchromatin and heterochromatin in mammalian nuclei and chromosomes.","authors":"E Minc, J C Courvalin, B Buendia","doi":"10.1159/000056789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000056789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) is a nonhistone chromosomal protein, first identified in Drosophila, that plays a dose-dependent role in gene silencing. Three orthologs, HP1alpha, HP1beta, and HP1gamma, have been characterized in mammals. While HP1alpha and HP1beta have been unambiguously localized in heterochromatin by immunocytochemical methods, HP1gamma has been found either exclusively associated with euchromatin or present in both euchromatin and heterochromatin. Here, using an antibody directed against a peptide epitope at the carboxyl-terminal end of the molecule, we localize HP1gamma in both euchromatin and heterochromatin compartments of interphase nuclei, as well as in the pericentromeric chromatin and arms of mitotic chromosomes of 3T3 cells. This dual location was also observed in nuclei expressing HP1gamma as a fusion protein with green fluorescent protein. In contrast, when the distribution of HP1gamma was analyzed with antibodies directed against an amino-terminal epitope, the protein was detectable in euchromatin and not in heterochromatin, except for transient heterochromatin staining during the late S phase, when the heterochromatin undergoes replication. These data suggest that the controversial immunolocalization of HP1gamma in chromatin is due to the use of antibodies directed against topologically distinct epitopes, those present at the amino-terminal end of the molecule being selectively masked in nonreplicative heterochromatin.</p>","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"90 3-4","pages":"279-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000056789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21947039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Vitelli, I Meloni, S Fineschi, F Favara, C Tiziana Storlazzi, M Rocchi, A Renieri
{"title":"Identification and characterization of mouse orthologs of the AMMECR1 and FACL4 genes deleted in AMME syndrome: orthology of Xq22.3 and MmuXF1-F3.","authors":"F Vitelli, I Meloni, S Fineschi, F Favara, C Tiziana Storlazzi, M Rocchi, A Renieri","doi":"10.1159/000015533","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000015533","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The contiguous gene deletion syndrome AMME is characterized by Alport syndrome, midface hypoplasia, mental retardation and elliptocytosis and is caused by a deletion in Xq22.3, comprising several genes including COL4A5, FACL4 and AMMECR1. We have now cloned the murine Facl4 and Ammecr1 genes and have mapped both novel murine genes to mouse chromosome X band F1-F3. The murine and human orthologs show 96.5% (FACL4) and 95.2% (AMMECR1) identity at the amino acid level, with conservation of the respective putative subcellular localization signals. Our results show that Facl4 and Ammecr1 are the true murine orthologs of the human genes. Furthermore, the mapping of Facl4 and Ammecr1 to MmuXF1-F3 suggests that this subinterval is orthologous, at least for a portion of Xq22. 3.</p>","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"88 3-4","pages":"259-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21673213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B Bardoni, S Giglio, A Schenck, M Rocchi, J L Mandel
{"title":"Assignment of NUFIP1 (nuclear FMRP interacting protein 1) gene to chromosome 13q14 and assignment of a pseudogene to chromosome 6q12.","authors":"B Bardoni, S Giglio, A Schenck, M Rocchi, J L Mandel","doi":"10.1159/000015580","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000015580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"89 1-2","pages":"11-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21735840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clustering of two fragile sites and seven homeobox genes in human chromosome region 2q31-->q32.1.","authors":"M Z Limongi, F Pelliccia, L Gaddini, A Rocchi","doi":"10.1159/000015651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000015651","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study we have used FISH to examine the relationship between a group of homeobox genes, namely DLX1/DLX2, EVX2 and four HOXD genes (10, 11, 12, 13), that map to region q31 on chromosome 2, and the FRA2G and FRA2H fragile sites located at 2q31 and 2q32.1 respectively. Our results indicate that these homeobox genes lie between the two fragile regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"90 1-2","pages":"151-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000015651","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21886957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T E Whitmore, J L Holloway, C E Lofton-Day, M F Maurer, L Chen, T J Quinton, J B Vincent, S W Scherer, S Lok
{"title":"Human secretin (SCT): gene structure, chromosome location, and distribution of mRNA.","authors":"T E Whitmore, J L Holloway, C E Lofton-Day, M F Maurer, L Chen, T J Quinton, J B Vincent, S W Scherer, S Lok","doi":"10.1159/000015658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000015658","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Secretin is an endocrine hormone that stimulates the secretion of bicarbonate-rich pancreatic fluids. Recently, it has been discussed that secretin deficiency may be implicated in autistic syndrome, suggesting that the hormone could have a neuroendocrine function in addition to its role in digestion. In the present study, the human secretin gene (SCT) was isolated from a bacterial artificial chromosome genomic library. SCT contains four exons, with the protein coding regions spanning 713 bp of genomic DNA. Human SCT is similar structurally to the secretin genes of other species. Amino acid conservation, however, is most pronounced within the exon encoding the biologically active mature peptide. Northern blot analysis shows that human SCT transcripts are located in the spleen, intestinal tract, and brain. Radiation hybrid mapping places the SCT locus on chromosome 11p15.5.</p>","PeriodicalId":10982,"journal":{"name":"Cytogenetics and cell genetics","volume":"90 1-2","pages":"47-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000015658","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21889082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}