THE GENES FOR HUMAN BRAIN FACTOR-1 AND FACTOR-2, MEMBERS OF THE FORK HEAD GENE FAMILY, ARE CLUSTERED ON CHROMOSOME-14Q

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作者
WIESE, S [1 ]
MURPHY, DB [1 ]
SCHLUNG, A [1 ]
BURFEIND, P [1 ]
SCHMUNDT, D [1 ]
SCHNULLE, V [1 ]
MATTEI, MG [1 ]
THIES, U [1 ]
机构
[1] HOP ENFANTS LA TIMONE,CTR GENET MED,F-13385 MARSEILLE 5,FRANCE
来源
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION | 1995年 / 1262卷 / 2-3期
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FORK HEAD; TELENCEPHALON; NEURON; CHROMOSOME; 14Q; BRAIN FACTOR; (HUMAN);
D O I
10.1016/0167-4781(95)00059-P
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
Brain factor-1 (BF-1) is a member of the fork head gene family which shows expression restricted to the neurons of the developing telencephalon in rodents and man. We have isolated a second human gene (HBF-2), which is also strongly expressed in embryonic brain and has very high homology to both the rat and human brain factor-1 genes and the retroviral oncogene gin. The HBF-2 cDNA was isolated from a human fetal brain expression library and contains a putative open reading frame of 479 amino acids. The HBF-2 gene is strongly expressed in fetal brain and also with lower levels of expression in several adult tissues. At the genomic level the gene for HBF-1 contains an 500 bp intron situated between the DNA binding domain II and the fork head domain while that of HBF-2 is intronless. The two genes are clustered on human chromosome 14q11-13.
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