An alternatively spliced, 5'-truncated MAP1B isoform is expressed in the developing chick nervous system.
Our laboratory has previously characterized a keratan sulfate proteoglycan, named claustrin, and shown by molecular cloning that claustrin and the mouse MAP1B protein share high homology, with claustrin representing a 5'-truncated fragment of MAP1B. In the present study, we examine further the relationship between claustrin and MAP1B, and also describe the isolation of a cDNA encoding the 3'-region of MAP1B, which shares 3'-untranslated sequence, but not coding sequence, with claustrin. We call this partial cDNA 3'-MAP1B-related clone (3'-MRC), since it is homologous to the 3'-region of the mouse MAP1B sequence. We show by Northern analysis that distinct mRNAs are recognized by the claustrin and 3'-MRC cDNAs, and by RT-PCR that mRNAs encoding these distinct MAP1B-related molecules are present in embryonic chick brain and cardiac and smooth muscle. Our data also suggest a higher level of expression of claustrin mRNA in astrocyte cultures, when compared to 3'-MRC. Our data therefore provide new evidence that alternatively spliced variants of MAP1B are expressed in brain, and that at least one of these variants encodes the claustrin proteoglycan.[1]References
- An alternatively spliced, 5'-truncated MAP1B isoform is expressed in the developing chick nervous system. Burg, M.A., Lee, J.A., Cole, G.J. J. Mol. Neurosci. (1997) [Pubmed]
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