Abstract
Human cancers derived from breast, esophageal, or ovarian tissues frequently show allelic losses on chromosome band 17q25. Moreover, a locus responsible for hereditary focal nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma, a condition associated with esophageal cancer (TOC; tylosis with oesophageal cancer), has been mapped to the same band. During efforts to sequence, by shotgun methods, a 1-Mb target region that we had defined as the DNA segment harboring the putative tumor suppressor gene(s) involved in these events, we identified a novel cDNA. The full-length cDNA is 2495 bp long and is expressed predominantly in skeletal muscle, heart, kidney, and placenta. The predicted product, a 627-amino-acid protein, exhibited significant sequence homology to the canine 68-kd subunit of the signal recognition particle that has been implicated in the transport of secreted and membrane proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum for proper processing. We confirmed the location of this gene at chromosome 17q25.1 by radiation-hybrid mapping and by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
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Received: September 18, 2000 / Accepted: November 10, 2000
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Harada, H., Nagai, H., Mine, N. et al. Molecular cloning, tissue expression, and chromosomal assignment of a novel gene encoding a subunit of the human signal-recognition particle. J Hum Genet 46, 70–75 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100380170111
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