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1: FEBS Lett. 1999 Oct 22;460(1):53-6.Click here to read Links

Cloning and characterization of a rabbit ortholog of human Galpha16 and mouse G(alpha)15.

Feild JA, Foley JJ, Testa TT, Nuthulaganti P, Ellis C, Sarau HM, Ames RS.

Department of Molecular Biology, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA 19406-0939, USA.

A cDNA was cloned from a rabbit spleen cDNA library which encoded a G-protein alpha subunit peptide of 374 amino acids, that at the peptide level exhibited 86% and 79% identity with human Galpha16 and mouse G(alpha)15, respectively. The rabbit G(alpha)subunit cDNA was subcloned into a mammalian expression vector and transiently co-transfected into HEK-293 cells along with cDNAs encoding the human C3a, C5a, or nociceptin/orphanin FQ receptors. In all three cases the rabbit G alpha subunit behaved similarly to G(alpha)15 or G(alpha)16 and effectively coupled the transfected receptors to intracellular calcium mobilization pathways. By nucleotide sequence homology and functional activity the rabbit G(alpha) subunit appears to be the ortholog of human G(alpha)16 and mouse G(alpha)15.

PMID: 10571060 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]