Murine Siva-1 and Siva-2, alternate splice forms of the mouse Siva gene, both bind to CD27 but differentially transduce apoptosis.
CD27, a member of the TNFR family known to provide essential co-stimulatory signals for T cell growth and B cell Ig synthesis, can also mediate cell death. Using the CD27 cytoplasmic tail as the bait in yeast two hybrid assay, we previously cloned human Siva, a pro-apoptotic molecule. Here we report the characterization of the mouse Siva gene as a 4 kb sequence containing 4 exons and 3 introns. RT-PCR has revealed the presence of two forms of mouse Siva mRNA, the longer full length form Siva-1 and the shorter Siva-2 lacking the sequence coded by exon 2. Immunoblotting with anti-Siva (human) antibodies clearly demonstrate the presence of both Siva-1 and Siva-2. Cotransfection experiments in 293T cells reveal that mouse CD27 receptor can interact with both forms of Siva. Although mouse Siva-1 can trigger apoptosis in Rat-1 cells and in some of the mouse cell lines in transient transfection experiments, similar to the observation made with human Siva, intriguingly its alternate splice form, Siva-2 appears to be much less toxic. It is therefore likely that Siva-2 could regulate the function of Siva-1.[1]References
- Murine Siva-1 and Siva-2, alternate splice forms of the mouse Siva gene, both bind to CD27 but differentially transduce apoptosis. Yoon, Y., Ao, Z., Cheng, Y., Schlossman, S.F., Prasad, K.V. Oncogene (1999) [Pubmed]
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