The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 2 582-589, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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The murine complement receptor gene family. Analysis of mCRY gene products and their homology to human CR1

MS Paul, M Aegerter, SE O'Brien, CB Kurtz and JH Weis
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

The mouse genome contains two sets of gene sequences which are highly homologous to the gene encoding the human C3b/C4b receptor (CR1). These genes, termed murine CRY (mCRY) and murine CRX (mCRX) reside on murine chromosomes 1 and 8, respectively. Analysis of cDNA isolated by using these sequences as probes indicates that there are two related but distinct mRNA which are expressed in a wide variety of murine tissues including spleen, liver, lung, and brain. Both of these transcripts encode proteins which should contain a signal sequence for membrane insertion, a transmembrane/cytoplasmic tail region for membrane anchoring, and five extracellular domains made up of 60 amino acid consensus repeat sequences. The difference between the two is the presence of an additional exon of 129 bp immediately 3' of the signal sequence. This additional exon does not encode a 60 amino acid repeat. The sizes of the mature proteins predicted from the cDNA sequences are 43,998 Mr and 48,680 Mr; however, antisera raised against carboxy- terminal sequences detects a 70,000 Mr protein from murine fibroblasts suggesting a high degree of post-translational modification of the mature protein. A comparison of these murine gene sequences with a partial human CR1 sequence suggests that the human CR1 gene evolved by direct duplication of the ancestral coding sequences contained within these murine genes including those sequences important for membrane anchoring and cytoplasmic protein attachment.

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