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Cloning, DNA Sequence, and Alternative Splicing of Opossum Amelogenin mRNAs
C.-C. Hu
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7888
C. Zhang
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7888
Q. Qian
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7888
O.H. Ryu
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7888
J. Moradian-Oldak
Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, California
A.G. Fincham
Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, California
J.P. Simmer
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7888
The enamel layer that covers the surfaces of teeth is thickest and most highly mineralized in mammals. The durability of mammalian enamel may have allowed for selection against the lifelong replacement of teeth that is observed in other vertebrates. Variation in enamel structure among animals is thought to be the result of evolutionary changes in the constituents of the developing enamel matrix. In placental mammals, the principal component of this matrix is amelogenin. We have determined the complete primary structures of two opossum amelogenins through a combination of protein sequencing, cloning, and DNA sequencing. RNA messages were cloned that encode 202- and 57-residue amelogenins, which are presumed to be expressed from the same gene but differ due to alternative splicing of identical pre-mRNAs. Edman degradation of the larger amelogenin ran for 42 cycles and yielded the sequence: IPLPPHPGHPGYINFS YEVLTPLKWYQSMMRQQYPSYGYEPM. The derived 202-residue amelogenin, assuming that serine 16 is phosphorylated, has an isotope-averaged molecular mass of 23,023.75 Daltons and a pI of 6.2. This is the largest amelogenin yet characterized. The increase in length is due to the presence of a 30-residue tandem repeat of QP(I/M) in exon 6 in the same position as a similar, but shorter, repeat expressed from the bovine X-chromosome. The 57-residue amelogenin, which is known from other organisms as the leucine-rich amelogenin protein (LRAP), has an isotope-averaged molecular mass of 6764.75 Daltons and a pI of 5.5. The opossum enamel protein is highly homologous to those previously characterized in eutherians and demonstrates that amelogenins were refined structurally prior to the metatherian/eutherian divergence between 100 and 150 million years ago.
Key Words: amelogenin • opossum • LRAP • enamel • tooth • Received January 11, 1996 • Accepted May 7, 1996
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DOI: 10.1177/00220345960750100401
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