Cloning and sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding poly-ubiquitin in human ovarian granulosa cells.
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Einspanier R, Sharma HS, Scheit KH
Cloning and sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding poly-ubiquitin in human ovarian granulosa cells.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1987 Sep 15;147(2):581-7.
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A cDNA clone, pHGR21 encoding poly-ubiquitin, was isolated from a human ovarian granulosa cDNA library. This clone contained three complete, and part of a fourth, ubiquitin coding sequence joined head to tail with no spacer sequences. Northern analysis employing a restriction fragment comprising a complete ubiquitin coding unit indicated the existence of two mRNA species of 1.1kb and 2.8kb. Sequence comparison of pHGR21 with the known two human ubiquitin genes revealed differences to the human ubiquitin-3 repeat gene but significant homology to the human ubiquitin-9 repeat gene. The untranslated 3'-region and the adjacent ubiquitin coding repeat were found to be identical to that of the human ubiquitin-9 repeat gene. The other 3 ubiquitin coding repeats were of close homology to the fourth ubiquitin coding repeat of the human ubiquitin-9 repeat gene. These findings suggest the existence of yet another human poly-ubiquitin gene.