TY - JOUR
T1 - Structure and organization of the human Ankyrin-1 gene
AU - Gallagher, Patrick G.
AU - Tse, William T.
AU - Scarpa, Alphonse L.
AU - Lux, Samuel E.
AU - Forget, Bernard G.
PY - 1997/8/1
Y1 - 1997/8/1
N2 - Ankyrin-1 (ANK-1) is an erythrocyte membrane protein that is defective in many patients with hereditary spherocytosis, a common hemolytic anemia. In the red cell, ankyrin-1 provides the primary linkage between the membrane skeleton and the plasma membrane. To gain additional insight into the structure and function of this protein and to provide the necessary tools for further genetic studies of hereditary spherocytosis patients, we cloned the human ANK-1 chromosomal gene. Characterization of the ANK-1 gene genomic structure revealed that the erythroid transcript is composed of 42 exons distributed over ~ 160 kilobase pairs of DNA. Comparison of the genomic structure with the protein domains reveals a near-absolute correlation between the tandem repeats encoding the membrane-binding domain of ankyrin with the location of the intron/exon boundaries in the corresponding part of the gene. Erythroid stage-specific, complex patterns of alternative splicing were identified in the region encoding the regulatory domain of ankyrin-1. Novel brain-specific transcripts were also identified in this region, as well as in the 'hinge' region between the membrane-binding and spectrin-binding domains. Utilization of alternative polyadenylation signals was found to be the basis for the previously described, stage-specific 9.0- and 7.2-kilobase pair transcripts of the ANK-1 gene.
AB - Ankyrin-1 (ANK-1) is an erythrocyte membrane protein that is defective in many patients with hereditary spherocytosis, a common hemolytic anemia. In the red cell, ankyrin-1 provides the primary linkage between the membrane skeleton and the plasma membrane. To gain additional insight into the structure and function of this protein and to provide the necessary tools for further genetic studies of hereditary spherocytosis patients, we cloned the human ANK-1 chromosomal gene. Characterization of the ANK-1 gene genomic structure revealed that the erythroid transcript is composed of 42 exons distributed over ~ 160 kilobase pairs of DNA. Comparison of the genomic structure with the protein domains reveals a near-absolute correlation between the tandem repeats encoding the membrane-binding domain of ankyrin with the location of the intron/exon boundaries in the corresponding part of the gene. Erythroid stage-specific, complex patterns of alternative splicing were identified in the region encoding the regulatory domain of ankyrin-1. Novel brain-specific transcripts were also identified in this region, as well as in the 'hinge' region between the membrane-binding and spectrin-binding domains. Utilization of alternative polyadenylation signals was found to be the basis for the previously described, stage-specific 9.0- and 7.2-kilobase pair transcripts of the ANK-1 gene.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.272.31.19220
DO - 10.1074/jbc.272.31.19220
M3 - Article
C2 - 9235914
AN - SCOPUS:0030739103
VL - 272
SP - 19220
EP - 19228
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
SN - 0021-9258
IS - 31
ER -