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Genomic organization of profilin-III and evidence for a transcript expressed exclusively in testis.

Braun, Attila LU ; Aszodi, Attila LU ; Hellebrand, Heide ; Berna, Alejandro ; Fässler, Reinhard LU and Brandau, Oliver LU (2002) In Gene 283(1-2). p.219-225
Abstract
Profilins are small, widely expressed actin binding proteins, thought to be key regulators of actin dynamics in living cells. So far, three profilin-genes have been described: profilin-I (PFN1), profilin-II (PFN2) with two splice variants and the recently identified profilin-III (PFN3). Here we describe the genomic organization of the genes encoding human and mouse profilin-III. Both are single exon genes and lie in close vicinity to the renal sodium-phosphate transport gene 2 (SLC34A1, NPT2) which is highly expressed in kidney. Northern hybridization to rat tissues has previously demonstrated expression of an approximately 4.5 kb long profilin-III mRNA transcript in kidney and a mRNA transcript of approximately 1 kb in length in testis.... (More)
Profilins are small, widely expressed actin binding proteins, thought to be key regulators of actin dynamics in living cells. So far, three profilin-genes have been described: profilin-I (PFN1), profilin-II (PFN2) with two splice variants and the recently identified profilin-III (PFN3). Here we describe the genomic organization of the genes encoding human and mouse profilin-III. Both are single exon genes and lie in close vicinity to the renal sodium-phosphate transport gene 2 (SLC34A1, NPT2) which is highly expressed in kidney. Northern hybridization to rat tissues has previously demonstrated expression of an approximately 4.5 kb long profilin-III mRNA transcript in kidney and a mRNA transcript of approximately 1 kb in length in testis. Here we show that mouse profilin-III expression is restricted to testis and that the 4.2 kb profilin-III mRNA in kidney is the result of a slc34a1 transcript which includes the antisense profilin-III open reading frame in its 3prime prime or minute-untranslated region. Finally, we demonstrate by in situ hybridization that profilin-III mRNA is localized to cells in the late stage of spermatogenesis. (Less)
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In Situ Hybridization, Human, Gene Expression, Kidney : metabolism, Mice, Male, Mice Inbred Strains, Microfilament Proteins : genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Protein Isoforms : genetics, RNA Messenger : genetics : metabolism, Rats, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequence Alignment, Sequence Homology Amino Acid, Sequence Analysis DNA, Transcription Genetic, Testis : metabolism, DNA : chemistry : genetics, DNA Complementary : chemistry : genetics, Blotting Northern, Base Sequence, Animal, Amino Acid Sequence
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Gene
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283
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219 - 225
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10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00855-1
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  abstract     = {{Profilins are small, widely expressed actin binding proteins, thought to be key regulators of actin dynamics in living cells. So far, three profilin-genes have been described: profilin-I (PFN1), profilin-II (PFN2) with two splice variants and the recently identified profilin-III (PFN3). Here we describe the genomic organization of the genes encoding human and mouse profilin-III. Both are single exon genes and lie in close vicinity to the renal sodium-phosphate transport gene 2 (SLC34A1, NPT2) which is highly expressed in kidney. Northern hybridization to rat tissues has previously demonstrated expression of an approximately 4.5 kb long profilin-III mRNA transcript in kidney and a mRNA transcript of approximately 1 kb in length in testis. Here we show that mouse profilin-III expression is restricted to testis and that the 4.2 kb profilin-III mRNA in kidney is the result of a slc34a1 transcript which includes the antisense profilin-III open reading frame in its 3prime prime or minute-untranslated region. Finally, we demonstrate by in situ hybridization that profilin-III mRNA is localized to cells in the late stage of spermatogenesis.}},
  author       = {{Braun, Attila and Aszodi, Attila and Hellebrand, Heide and Berna, Alejandro and Fässler, Reinhard and Brandau, Oliver}},
  issn         = {{1879-0038}},
  keywords     = {{In Situ Hybridization; Human; Gene Expression; Kidney : metabolism; Mice; Male; Mice Inbred Strains; Microfilament Proteins : genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Protein Isoforms : genetics; RNA Messenger : genetics : metabolism; Rats; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology Amino Acid; Sequence Analysis DNA; Transcription Genetic; Testis : metabolism; DNA : chemistry : genetics; DNA Complementary : chemistry : genetics; Blotting Northern; Base Sequence; Animal; Amino Acid Sequence}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1-2}},
  pages        = {{219--225}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Gene}},
  title        = {{Genomic organization of profilin-III and evidence for a transcript expressed exclusively in testis.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00855-1}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00855-1}},
  volume       = {{283}},
  year         = {{2002}},
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