| First Author | Reddy RS | Year | 1995 |
| Journal | DNA Cell Biol | Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 12 | Pages | 1007-15 |
| PubMed ID | 8534367 | Mgi Jnum | J:30331 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:77843 | Doi | 10.1089/dna.1995.14.1007 |
| Citation | Reddy RS, et al. (1995) Alternative splicing generates four different forms of a non-transmembrane protein tyrosine phosphatase mRNA. DNA Cell Biol 14(12):1007-15 |
| abstractText | PTP-S is a widely expressed non-transmembrane protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase), which binds to DNA in vitro. The cellular PTP-S gene product is present mainly in the nucleus in association with chromatin. cDNAs related to PTP-S have been described from human and mouse cells. To establish the origin of molecular diversity in these cDNAs, genomic clones of rat PTP-S were isolated that span over 40 kb of the gene and contain 7 axons. The exon-intron splice sites in the catalytic domain are conserved between PTP-S and human PTP1B. Sequences specific to and homologous to human T-cell PTPase (TC-PTP) were found in the genomic clones of PTP-S, which are expressed in rat cells, as determined by using a specific probe and Northern blot analysis. Analysis of RNA from different rat tissues by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) showed the presence of four different forms of PTP-S mRNA (named PTP-S1, PTP-S2, PTP-S3, and PTP-S4). PTP-S1 is same as PTP-S reported previously by us. PTP-S2, which is the major form, differs from PTP-S1 in having additional 19 amino acids corresponding to exon E1. PTP-S4 is similar to human T-cell phosphatase. PTP-S3 differs from PTP-S4 in having a deletion of 19 amino acids corresponding to exon E1. Our results suggest that four different forms of PTP-S mRNA arise from a single gene by differential splicing. Two of these forms, PTP-S1 and PTP-S3, were not found in human cells, possibly due to the loss of an internal splice acceptor site in one of the exons, suggesting the occurrence of species-specific splicing in this gene. |
