Cloning, mapping and molecular characterization of porcine progesterone receptor membrane component 2 (PGRMC2) gene
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, Congying, Sargent, Carole, Quilter, Claire, Yang, Zhuqing, Ren, Jun, Affara, Nabeel, Brenig, Bertram, Huang, Lusheng
FONTE
Genetics and Molecular Biology
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
25/06/2010
RESUMO
Progesterone plays an important role in sow reproduction by stimulating classic genomic pathways via nuclear receptors and non-genomic pathways via membrane receptors such a progesterone receptor membrane component 2 (PGRMC2). In this work, we used radiation hybrid mapping to assign PGRMC2 to pig chromosome 8 and observed that this receptor has two transcripts in pigs. The full-length cDNA of the large transcript is 1858 bp long and contains a 669-bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding a protein of 223 amino acids. The shorter transcript encodes a protein of 170 amino acids. The porcine PGRMC2 gene consists of three exons 446 bp, 156 bp and 1259 bp in length. The promoter sequence is GC-rich and lacks a typical TATA box. Several putative cis-regulatory DNA motifs were identified in the 208-bp upstream genomic region. Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected in introns* and the 3' UTR. RT-PCR indicated that the PGRMC2 gene is expressed ubiquitously in all pig tissues examined.
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