A GENE IN THE CHROMOSOMAL REGION 3P21 WITH GREATLY REDUCED EXPRESSION IN LUNG-CANCER IS SIMILAR TO THE GENE FOR UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYME

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KOK, K
HOFSTRA, R
PILZ, A
VANDENBERG, A
TERPSTRA, P
BUYS, CHCM
CARRITT, B
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[1] UNIV LONDON UNIV COLL,MRC,HUMAN BIOCHEM GENET UNIT,LONDON NW1 2HE,ENGLAND
[2] UNIV GRONINGEN,CTR BIOMED TECHNOL,9713 EZ GRONINGEN,NETHERLANDS
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10.1073/pnas.90.13.6071
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The chromosomal region 3p21 is thought to be the site of a lung tumor suppressor gene. We recently cloned a gene from this region that has greatly reduced expression in almost all lung tumor cell lines examined, in spite of being widely expressed in a variety of other tumor and nontumor cell types. We report here the sequence of this gene and show that it has significant homology to the genes encoding the ubiquitin-activating enzymes of three species, including humans. This suggests it is a second, autosomal member of this gene family in humans and may play a role in the ubiquitin conjugation pathway, which is of central importance in all eukaryotes.
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