A muscle-type tropomyosin in human fibroblasts: evidence for expression by an alternative RNA splicing mechanism.
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MacLeod AR, Houlker C, Reinach FC, Smillie LB, Talbot K, Modi G, Walsh FS
A muscle-type tropomyosin in human fibroblasts: evidence for expression by an alternative RNA splicing mechanism.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1985 Dec;82(23):7835-9.
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We have isolated a cDNA clone from a human fibroblast cDNA library that contains the entire protein-coding region of a 1.1-kilobase mRNA. This mRNA encodes a 284-amino acid tropomyosin, the primary structure of which most closely resembles smooth muscle tropomyosin. Thus, the expression of both 284-amino acid muscle-type and 247-amino acid non-muscle-type tropomyosins appears to be a normal feature of human non-muscle cells. We also present evidence to suggest that this cytoskeletal tropomyosin and a human skeletal muscle beta-tropomyosin are derived from a common structural gene by an alternative RNA splicing mechanism.