Cloning of the cDNA coding for the 270-residue turtle prion protein is reported. It represents the most remote example thus far described. The entire coding region is comprised in a single exon, while a large intron interrupts the 5' UTR. The common structural features of the known prion proteins are all conserved in turtle PrP, whose identity degree to mammalian and avian proteins is about 40 and 58%, respectively. The most intriguing feature, unique to the turtle prion, is the presence of an EF-hand Ca(2+) binding motif in the C-terminal half of the protein.
cDNA cloning of turtle prion protein / T. Simonic, S. Duga, B. Strumbo, R. Asselta, F. Ceciliani, S. Ronchi. - In: FEBS LETTERS. - ISSN 0014-5793. - 469:1(2000 Mar 03), pp. 33-38.
cDNA cloning of turtle prion protein
T. SimonicPrimo
;S. DugaSecondo
;B. Strumbo;R. Asselta;F. CecilianiPenultimo
;S. RonchiUltimo
2000
Abstract
Cloning of the cDNA coding for the 270-residue turtle prion protein is reported. It represents the most remote example thus far described. The entire coding region is comprised in a single exon, while a large intron interrupts the 5' UTR. The common structural features of the known prion proteins are all conserved in turtle PrP, whose identity degree to mammalian and avian proteins is about 40 and 58%, respectively. The most intriguing feature, unique to the turtle prion, is the presence of an EF-hand Ca(2+) binding motif in the C-terminal half of the protein.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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