IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL CDNAS ENCODING HUMAN KEXIN-LIKE PROTEASE, PACE4 ISOFORMS

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作者
TSUJI, A
HIGASHINE, K
HINE, C
MORI, K
TAMAI, Y
NAGAMUNE, H
MATSUDA, Y
机构
[1] Univ Tokushima, Fac Engn, Dept Biol Sci and Technol, Tokushima
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10.1006/bbrc.1994.1541
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
PACE4 has been identified as a second human subtilisin-like protease by Keifer et al. [DNA and Cell Biology (1991) 10, 757-769]. In this study, we isolated two novel cDNAs coding for PACE4 isoforms (PACE4C and PACE4D) from a human placenta cDNA library. The deduced PACE4C protein sequence (652 amino acids) lacks the cysteine-rich region located at the carboxy terminus of PACE4. The DNA sequence of the 3'-untranslated region (1 kb) of PACE4C is not homologous to the PACE4 sequence. The protein (497 amino acids) encoded by PACE4D cDNA lacks a signal peptide, a propeptide and the cysteine-rich region. These isoform cDNAs were also isolated from rat pituitary cDNA library. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.
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