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  • Title: Nucleotide sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding human ubiquitin reveals that ubiquitin is synthesized as a precursor.
    Author: Lund PK, Moats-Staats BM, Simmons JG, Hoyt E, D'Ercole AJ, Martin F, Van Wyk JJ.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1985 Jun 25; 260(12):7609-13. PubMed ID: 2581967.
    Abstract:
    Ubiquitin is a 76-amino acid protein whose sequence is highly conserved throughout evolution from invertebrates to mammals. It is both a cytoplasmic and nuclear protein. In the cytoplasm it is involved in ATP-dependent nonlysosomal proteolysis. In the nucleus, ubiquitin is conjugated to histone 2A and may play a role in regulation of chromatin structure and/or regulation of transcriptional activity. During attempts to identify a cDNA encoding somatomedin-C (insulin-like growth factor I) we screened a fetal human liver cDNA library with a mixture of 17 base oligonucleotides corresponding to a portion of the B chain of somatomedin-C. One oligonucleotide of the mixture hybridized to two cDNAs encoding ubiquitin despite a 2-base pair mismatch. Nucleotide sequence analyses of the 350- and 516-base pair cDNAs revealed that they correspond to the same ubiquitin mRNA. The coding sequence of the 516-base pair cDNA begins at amino acid 5 of the ubiquitin sequence and encodes amino acids 5 through 76 of ubiquitin, an 80-amino acid carboxy-terminal extension, a 3' untranslated region, and a poly(A) tail. The finding that ubiquitin is synthesized as a precursor raises the possibility that the precursor sequence may be important in compartmentalization of ubiquitin or ubiquitin precursors. Analyses of ubiquitin mRNAs in poly(A) RNA extracted from human liver and various rat tissues reveals that there are three distinct mRNAs encoding ubiquitin in humans and four mRNAs in the rat.
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