Human inner ear OCP2 cDNA maps to 5q22-5q35.2 with related sequences on chromosomes 4p16.2-4p14, 5p13-5q22, 7pter-q22, 10 and 12p13-12qter |
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Institution: | 1. Biomedical Engineering Group, E&IT Department, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran, Iran;1. Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan;2. Department of Social Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan;3. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan |
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Abstract: | Mouse Ocp2-rs2 maps to chromosome 11 and encodes an 18.6 kDa peptide abundantly expressed in the organ of Corti. We show that sequences similar to murine Ocp2-rs2 are found on human chromosomes 4p16.2-4p14, 5p13-5q35.2, 7pter-q22, 10 and 12p13-12qter as revealed by Southern blot analyses of human/rodent somatic cell hybrids. A fetal human inner ear cDNA library was screened with a cloned 254 bp PCR product of murine Ocp2-rs2. One of two human cDNA clones (CM1) was sequenced from the 5′ end that begins with murine Ocp2-rs2 codon 14 through the stop codon and 258 nucleotides of 3′-UTR and was found to have the identical deduced amino acid sequence to Ocp2-rs2. Based on the sequence in the 3′-UTR of CM1, a PCR primer pair was synthesized and used to confirm that a human homologue of Ocp2-rs2, designated OCP2 and expressed in the developing human inner ear, is localized to 5q22-5q35.2. Other OCP2-like sequences located on chromosomes 4p16.2-4p14, 7pter-q22 and 12p13-12qter (but not the chromosome 10 OCP2-like sequence) will PCR amplify the expected size product at a lower annealing temperature using the OCP2 3′-UTR PCR primers indicating that there may be a human OCP2 gene family. |
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