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Characterization of Mouse Carboxypeptidase N Small Active Subunit Gene Structure¹

Kirstin W. Matthews^* and Rick A. Wetsel^2,*,

^* University of Texas-Houston Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030

Carboxypeptidase N (CPN) is a plasma zinc metalloprotease comprised of two small subunits that have enzymatic activity, and two large subunits, which protect the enzyme from degradation. CPN cleaves the carboxyl-terminal amino acids arginine and lysine from biologically active peptides such as complement anaphylatoxins, kinins, and fibrinopeptides. To delineate the murine CPN small subunit coding region, gene structure, and chromosome location, cDNA and genomic clones were isolated, characterized, and used in Northern and fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses. The results from this study demonstrate that the murine CPN small subunit gene is a single copy gene of 29 kb that is transcribed in the liver into a 1793-bp mRNA with an open reading frame of 1371 nucleotides encoding 457 aa. The gene contains nine exons ranging in size from 455 bp (exon 1) to 100 bp (exon 7), and eight introns ranging in size from 6.2 kb (intron 2) to 1.4 kb (intron 4). All intron/exon junctions follow the normal consensus rule. The mouse CPN small subunit gene localized to chromosomal band 19D2, which is syntenic to human chromosome 10q23–25. Primer extension experiments using mouse liver mRNA indicate one major transcriptional initiation site and three minor sites. Sequence analysis of the 5'-flanking region indicated a TATA-less promoter and numerous transcription factor binding sites, which may confer liver-specific expression of the CPN small subunit gene.

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