Alternative mRNA splicing generates two distinct ADAM12 prodomain variants.

ABSTRACT: Human ADAM12, transcript variant 1 (later on referred to as Var-1b), present in publicly available databases contains the sequence 5'-GTAATTCTG-3' at the nucleotide positions 340-348 of the coding region, at the 3' end of exon 4. The translation product of this variant, ADAM12-Lb, includes the three amino acid motif (114)VIL(116) in the prodomain. This motif is not conserved in ADAM12 from different species and is not present in other human ADAMs. Currently, it is not clear whether a shorter variant, Var-1a, encoding the protein version without the (114)VIL(116) motif, ADAM12-La, is expressed in human. In this work, we have established that human mammary epithelial cells and breast cancer cells express both Var-1a and Var-1b transcripts. Importantly, the proteolytic processing and intracel

SUBMITTER: Duhachek-Muggy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3792144 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature