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    FEBS Lett. 1989 Dec 18;259(1):153-7.

    Molecular cloning, cDNA structure and predicted amino acid sequence of bovine 3 beta-hydroxy-5-ene steroid dehydrogenase/delta 5-delta 4 isomerase.

    Zhao HF, Simard J, Labrie C, Breton N, Rhéaume E, Luu-The V, Labrie F.

    Medical Research Council Group in Molecular Endocrinology, Laval University Medical Centre, Quebec, Canada.

    We have used our recently characterized human 3 beta-hydroxy-5-ene steroid dehydrogenase/delta 5-delta 4-isomerase (3 beta-HSD) cDNA as probe to isolate cDNAs encoding bovine 3 beta-HSD from a bovine ovary lambda gtll cDNA library. Nucleotide sequence analysis of two overlapping cDNA clones of 1362 bp and 1536 bp in length predicts a protein of 372 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 42,093 (excluding the first Met). The deduced amino acid sequence of bovine 3 beta-HSD displays 79% homology with human 3 beta-HSD while the nucleotide sequence of the coding region shares 82% interspecies similarity. Hybridization of cloned cDNAs to bovine ovary poly(A)+ RNA shows the presence of an approximately 1.7 kb mRNA species.

    PMID: 2599102 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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