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Characterization of a tropomyosin cDNA from the hydrozoan Podocoryne carnea
Author(s) -
Baader Christine D.,
Schmid Volker,
Schuchert Peter
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80966-x
Subject(s) - open reading frame , tropomyosin , complementary dna , biology , untranslated region , clone (java method) , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , peptide sequence , genetics , messenger rna , actin
A cDNA clone from the hydrozoan Podocoryne carnea was characterized. It consists of an open reading frame of 726 nt flanked by a 84 nt 5' and a 307 nt 3' untranslated region. The corresponding gene exists apparently as a single copy. The transcript is ubiquitously expressed in the polyp and the medusa stage. Several features of the predicted peptide sequence indicate a relationship to tropomyosins. At the amino acid level it shares 26–30% identical residues with other invertebrate and vertebrate tropomyosin sequences.