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Publication : Molecular characterization of the murine SIGNR1 gene encoding a C-type lectin homologous to human DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR.

First Author  Parent SA Year  2002
Journal  Gene Volume  293
Issue  1-2 Pages  33-46
PubMed ID  12137941 Mgi Jnum  J:78390
Mgi Id  MGI:2384347 Doi  10.1016/s0378-1119(02)00722-9
Citation  Parent SA, et al. (2002) Molecular characterization of the murine SIGNR1 gene encoding a C-type lectin homologous to human DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR. Gene 293(1-2):33-46
abstractText  The C-type lectin human dendritic cell (DC)-specific intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-3-grabbing non-integrin (DC-SIGN) plays important roles in pattern recognition by dendritic cells in the immune system. In addition to binding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), this type II membrane protein binds with high affinity to the adhesion molecules ICAM-3 and -2 to promote important dendritic cell interactions with naive T cells and endothelial cells, respectively. DC-SIGNR, a human DC-SIGN homologue expressed on sinusoidal endothelial cells in liver and lymph node, also binds and transmits HIV virus. We describe the cloning and characterization of a family of murine complementary DNAs (cDNAs) called SIGNR1, expressed in skin and spleen, that encode C-type lectins highly related to human DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR. We also report the genomic structure of the SIGNR1 gene and compare it to that of human DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR. The different transcripts (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) are generated by differences in 5' untranslated sequences, alternative splicing and/or the use of different polyadenylation sites. The predicted open reading frames encoded by the cDNAs are most closely related to human DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR in the cytoplasmic domain, the transmembrane region and the carbohydrate recognition domain. Moreover, the alternatively spliced transcripts encode proteins that lack the transmembrane region or have modified carbohydrate recognition domains. Northern hybridization experiments with several different SIGNR1 cDNA probes reveal transcripts of 1.3 and 2.1 kb that are expressed in a tissue-restricted fashion in murine skin, spleen and lung. In situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry experiments demonstrate that, like human DC-SIGN, the murine messenger RNAs are expressed in subsets of dendritic cells in the spleen and skin.
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