Expression of a nonmyristylated variant of the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A during male germ-cell development.

ABSTRACT: The catalytic subunits of protein kinase A are transcribed in all mouse tissues from two distinct genes that code for the Calpha and Cbeta isoforms. Alternative promoters exist for the Cbeta gene that are used in a tissue-specific fashion and give rise to variants that differ in their amino-terminal sequences. We have characterized an alternative promoter that is present in the first intron of the Calpha gene and is transcriptionally active in male germ cells. Transcription from this promoter is coincident with the appearance of pachytene spermatocytes and leads to a Calpha protein (Calpha2) that contains a distinctive 7 amino acid amino-terminus differing from the 14 amino acid amino-terminus of Calpha1. The Calpha2 protein does not contain the myristylation signal present on Calpha1 and

SUBMITTER: Desseyn JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC18620 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature