Identification of an Osteocalcin Isoform in Fish with a Large Acidic Prodomain.
From: Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal. vlaize@ualg.pt
The Journal of biological chemistry
- Publish Date: Jun 2006
- ISSN: 0021-9258
- Volume: 281
- Issue: 22
- Pages: 15037-43
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Laizé Vincent, Viegas Carla S B, Price Paul A, et al. Identification of an Osteocalcin Isoform in Fish with a Large Acidic Prodomain.. J. Biol. Chem. Jun 2006;281:15037-43
Abstract
Osteocalcin is a small, secreted bone protein whose gene consists of four exons. In the course of analyzing the structure of fish osteocalcin genes, we recently found that the spotted green pufferfish has two possible exon 2 structures, one of 15 bp and the other of 324 bp. Subsequent analysis of the pufferfish cDNA showed that only the transcript with a large exon 2 exists. Exon 2 codes for the osteocalcin propeptide, and exon 2 of pufferfish osteocalcin is approximately 3.4-fold larger than exon 2 previously found in other vertebrate species. We have termed this new pufferfish osteocalcin isoform OC2. Additional studies showed that the OC2 isoform is restricted to a unique fish taxonomic group, the Osteichthyes; OC2 is the only osteocalcin isoform found so far in six Osteichthyes species, whereas both OC1 and OC2 isoforms coexist in zebrafish and rainbow trout. The larger size of the OC2 propeptide is due to an acidic region that is likely to be highly phosphorylated and has no counterpart in the OC1 propeptide. We propose 1) that OC1 and OC2 are encoded by distinct genes that originated from a duplication event that probably occurred in the teleost fish lineage soon after divergence from tetrapods and 2) that the novel OC2 propeptide could be, if secreted, a phosphoprotein that participates in the regulation of biomineralization through its large acidic and phosphorylated propeptide.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Cloning, Molecular, DNA, Complementary, Evolution, Molecular, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Molecular Sequence Data, Osteocalcin, Phylogeny, Protein Isoforms, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Takifugu, Tetraodontiformes
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