We have isolated a series of cross-hybridizing cDNA clones, as a group designated as NKG5, from a human natural killer (NK) cell clone cDNA library. These clones show a high degree of homology with a previously described gene, 519, which was thought to be T cell specific. A comparison of the full-length cDNA sequence of NKG5 and the published sequence of 519 shows that NKG5 lacks a 242-base segment that is found in 519 and that this deletion leads to the use of a different putative translational start codon. Unlike 519, the predicted NKG5 polypeptide has an NH2-terminal sequence that is strongly hydrophobic, characteristic of a signal peptide, and lacks any additional hydrophobic regions in the remainder of the peptide, suggesting that NKG5 encodes a secreted protein. Both NKG5 and 519 are expressed in NK and T cells but not in a variety of other hematopoietic cell lines. NKG5 is an abundant transcript and its level of expression is about 40 times that of 519 in NK and T cells. Southern blot and DNA sequence analyses suggest that NKG5 and 519 mRNAs are transcripts from a single gene that has allelic polymorphism.
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October 01 1990
A cDNA clone expressed in natural killer and T cells that likely encodes a secreted protein.
T Yabe,
T Yabe
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
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C McSherry,
C McSherry
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
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F H Bach,
F H Bach
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
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J P Houchins
J P Houchins
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
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T Yabe
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
C McSherry
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
F H Bach
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
J P Houchins
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1990) 172 (4): 1159–1163.
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T Yabe, C McSherry, F H Bach, J P Houchins; A cDNA clone expressed in natural killer and T cells that likely encodes a secreted protein.. J Exp Med 1 October 1990; 172 (4): 1159–1163. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.172.4.1159
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