Desmosomal glycoproteins II and III. Cadherin-like junctional molecules generated by alternative splicing

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Parker, A E, Wheeler, G N ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4335-8577, Arnemann, J, Pidsley, S C, Ataliotis, P, Thomas, C L, Rees, D A, Magee, A I and Buxton, R S (1991) Desmosomal glycoproteins II and III. Cadherin-like junctional molecules generated by alternative splicing. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 266 (16). pp. 10438-10445. ISSN 0021-9258

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Abstract

We have cloned the human genes coding for desmosomal glycoproteins DGII and DGIII, found in desmosomal cell junctions, and sequencing shows that they are related to the cadherin family of cell adhesion molecules. Thus a new super family of cadherin-like molecules exists which also includes the other major desmosomal glycoprotein, DGI (Wheeler, G. N., Parker, A. E., Thomas, C. L., Ataliotis, P., Poynter, D., Arnemann, J., Rutman, A. J., Pidsley, S. C., Watt, F. M., Rees, D. A., Buxton, R. S., and Magee, A. I. (1991) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., in press). DGIII differs from DGII by the addition of a 46-base pair exon containing an in-frame stop codon resulting in mature protein molecular weights of 84,633 for DGII and 78,447 for DGIII. The unique carboxyl-terminal region of DGII contains a potential serine phosphorylation site explaining why only DGII is phosphorylated on serine. The cadherin cell adhesion recognition sequence (His-Ala-Val) is replaced by Phe-Ala-Thr, suggesting that DGII/III may be adhesive molecules using a different mechanism.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: amino acid sequence,animals,base sequence,blotting, northern,blotting, southern,cadherins,cloning, molecular,dna,desmosomes,electrophoresis agar gel,electrophoresis polyacrylamide gel,female,glycoproteins,humans,male,mice,molecular sequence data,phosphorylation,polymerase chain reaction,rna splicing,sequence alignment,sequence homology nucleic acid
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Cells and Tissues
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Date Deposited: 11 Aug 2015 16:22
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2023 00:48
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54070
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