Genomic Structure of NKG5, a Human NK and T Cell-specific Activation Gene

Overview

Journal Immunogenetics

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
Genetics

Date 1993 Jan 1

PMID 8423048

Citations 6

Authors

J P Houchins

F Kricek

C S Chujor

C P Heise

T Yabe

C McSherry

F H Bach

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Abstract

We reported previously the isolation of a cDNA clone, designated NKG5, encoding a secreted protein that is expressed only in natural killer and T cells and is strongly upregulated upon cell activation. In this report we have isolated the NKG5 gene from a human placental genomic library and sequenced the gene and two kilobases of 5'-flanking DNA. Comparison with the cDNA sequence reveals that the NKG5 gene consists of five exons and four introns. Intron 1 contains a DNA segment that was reported to occur as an exon in 519, a closely related cDNA clone that was isolated from a T-cell library. This result indicates that NKG5 and 519 are alternative splicing products of a single gene. The 5'-flanking region of the NKG5 gene was analyzed for homology with the promoter regions of cytokines and other activation-induced genes showing lymphocyte-specific expression. Several segments displaying sequence similarity were identified. We also identified numerous sequence elements that have strong similarity to known binding sites for transcriptional regulatory proteins including T cell-specific and activation-specific regulatory factors. These findings are consistent with the cell-specific expression and the tight regulatory control that is observed for the NKG5 gene.

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