1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Purification and biochemical, cell biological analysis o a new human GTP-binding protein
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01580199
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
代謝生物化学
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| Research Institution | Keio university School of Medicine |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKANO Toshiya Keio University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (60051364)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TACHIBANA Kouichi Keio University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Instructor, 医学部, 助手 (80216986)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1991
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| Keywords | Rab-2 gene / GTP-binding protein / Transcription / Complementary DNA / Messenger RNA / Polyadenylation site / Antiserum / Modification of protein |
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| Research Abstract |
The human rab-2 gene codes a 24-kDa YPT1-related GTP-binding protein. In all the human cell lines examined, including hematopoietic, fibroblastic and tumor cells, three rab-2 transcripts of 3.5, 2.4 and 1.4 kb were detected. The 2.4- and 3.5-kb rab-2 RNA hybridized with the probe specific for the 3'-non-coding region of 2.4-kb transcript, but not the 1.4-kb RNA. These transcripts seemed to differ in the length of their 3'-non-translated regions due to terminations of the transcription and/or processing of the primary transcript at the alternative polyadenylation sites. The smaller 1.4-kb transcript was the most predominant in Molt-4 and U-937, while the 2.4-kb RNA was dominant in the other cell lines. The degradation rates of all the rab-2 transcripts wbre similarly as slow as beta-actin RNA, even in the two cell lines whose predominant species of the transcripts were different. Rab-2 protein was detected in the extracts of human cultured cells as one major band of 24 kDa and a more faint band of 25 kDa by both immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation. Only the 25-kDa protein was detected in HeLa and KOBK101 cells. In the COS-1 cells transfected with an expression vector carrying rab-2 cDNA, the rab-2 protein was mainly located in the cytoplasm.
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