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    FEBS Lett. 1991 Sep 9;289(2):260-4.

    Characterization of full-length cDNAs and the gene coding for the human GM2 activator protein.

    Klima H, Tanaka A, Schnabel D, Nakano T, Schröder M, Suzuki K, Sandhoff K.

    Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Bonn, Germany.

    Full-length cDNAs coding for the human GM2-activator protein has been isolated and characterized, and its genomic structure studied in two overlapping clones in lambda-EMBL-4 isolated from a human brain genomic library. Two different cDNAs were found that were identical to the 5'-terminus to nt 1311 (counted from the A of the initiation codon, ATG) including the entire protein coding sequence. However, they were entirely dissimilar in the 3'-non-coding sequences. The genomic clones covered 94% of the full-length cDNA sequence. Three introns were found. The last exon spans contiguously the carboxyl terminus of the protein and the entire 3'-untranslated region of one of the two cDNAs with different 3'-ends. The origin of the 3'-portion of the other cDNA clone is not clear at this time.

    PMID: 1915857 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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