TY - JOUR
T1 - A Chinese hamster cDNA encoding a protein essential for phosphatidylserine synthase I activity
AU - Kuge, O.
AU - Nishijima, M.
AU - Akamatsu, Y.
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PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - A phosphatidylserine-auxotrophic mutant of cultured Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, PSA-3, is defective in phosphatidylserine synthase I activity. Transfection of PSA-3 cells with a cDNA expression library of CHO-K1 (the parent of PSA-3) yielded a phosphatidylserine-prototrophic transformant with normal phosphatidylserine synthase I activity. Using a cDNA segment retrieved from the transformant as a probe, a cDNA clone (pssA) responsible for phosphatidylserine prototrophy was isolated from the original cDNA library by colony filter hybridization. Introduction of the pssA cDNA into PSA-3 cells restored the phosphatidylserine content, and the resultant transformant exhibited 15-fold higher specific phosphatidylserine synthase I activity than CHO-K1 cells. The nucleotide sequence of the pssA cDNA contained a single long open reading frame capable of encoding a protein of 471 amino acid residues with several putative membrane-spanning domains. Our results indicated that the pssA cDNA encodes an integral membrane protein essential for phosphatidylserine synthase I activity.
AB - A phosphatidylserine-auxotrophic mutant of cultured Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, PSA-3, is defective in phosphatidylserine synthase I activity. Transfection of PSA-3 cells with a cDNA expression library of CHO-K1 (the parent of PSA-3) yielded a phosphatidylserine-prototrophic transformant with normal phosphatidylserine synthase I activity. Using a cDNA segment retrieved from the transformant as a probe, a cDNA clone (pssA) responsible for phosphatidylserine prototrophy was isolated from the original cDNA library by colony filter hybridization. Introduction of the pssA cDNA into PSA-3 cells restored the phosphatidylserine content, and the resultant transformant exhibited 15-fold higher specific phosphatidylserine synthase I activity than CHO-K1 cells. The nucleotide sequence of the pssA cDNA contained a single long open reading frame capable of encoding a protein of 471 amino acid residues with several putative membrane-spanning domains. Our results indicated that the pssA cDNA encodes an integral membrane protein essential for phosphatidylserine synthase I activity.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 1748687
AN - SCOPUS:0026337977
VL - 266
SP - 24184
EP - 24189
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
SN - 0021-9258
IS - 35
ER -