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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 12 5811-5818, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Identification and characterization of a novel surface antigen gene induced in mast cells activated through the high affinity IgE receptor

G Pirozzi, RW Terry, D Epstein and MA Labow
Cytogen Corp., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

In an effort to isolate novel genes involved in inflammation and/or mast cell activation, we have used a combination of differential screening and subtractive hybridization to isolate genes whose expression are induced upon activation of a transformed rat mast cell line. One of the isolated clones, pMCA-32, contained an open reading frame of 278 amino acids that included a putative hydrophobic transmembrane domain, a cysteine rich Ig-like extracellular domain, and a cytoplasmic domain containing three consensus SH2-domain phosphotyrosine binding sites. The MCA-32 gene is also highly conserved between rat and mouse, with the two coding regions being 73% identical. Although the MCA-32 coding region did not contain an obvious signal peptide, MCA-32 protein was detected on the surface of rat mast cells, and the cloned cDNA produced a cell surface protein when expressed in COS-7 cells. MCA-32 RNA from both mouse and rat undergoes alternative splicing, producing an mRNA containing an in-frame deletion of the TM domain, suggesting that a form of MCA-32 protein may be secreted. MCA- 32 mRNA expression was up-regulated upon activation of RBL-2H3 cells and was highly abundant in primary peritoneal mast cells. Expression of MCA-32 RNA was only observed in primary and transformed mast cells from rat, while in the mouse MCA-32, RNA was also produced in significant amounts by a number of transformed monocyte cell lines. Thus, MCA-32 is a novel surface protein whose structure and expression suggest roles in the development and/or activation of mast cells and monocytes.


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