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  • Title: Cloning, sequencing, and expression of a human brain ecto-apyrase related to both the ecto-ATPases and CD39 ecto-apyrases1.
    Author: Smith TM, Kirley TL.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1998 Jul 28; 1386(1):65-78. PubMed ID: 9675246.
    Abstract:
    An extracellular ATPase (E-type ATPase) clone was isolated from a human brain cDNA library and sequenced. The transcript shows similarity to the previously published chicken smooth muscle and rat brain ecto-ATPase cDNAs, human CD39L1 cDNA (putative human ecto-ATPase), and mammalian CD39 (lymphoid cell activation antigen, ecto-apyrase, ATPDase, ATP-diphosphohydrolase) cDNAs. The full-length human brain cDNA encodes a 529 amino acid glycoprotein with a putative membrane spanning region near each terminus, with the majority of the protein found extracellularly. Expression of this clone in mammalian COS-1 cells yielded NaN3-sensitive ATPase and ADPase activity detectable both on intact cells and cell membrane preparations. The nucleotide hydrolysis ratio of the expressed protein is approx. 2.75:1 (ATPase:ADPase activity), classifying it as an ecto-apyrase. However, this hydrolysis ratio is intermediate between that observed for the ecto-ATPases and the CD39 ecto-apyrases (L. Plesner, Int. Rev. Cytol. 158 (1995) 141-214). Quantitative analyses of amino acid identities and similarities between this ecto-apyrase and other vertebrate E-type ATPases suggest that this human brain enzyme is nearly equally related to the ecto-ATPases and the CD39s, and phylogenetic analysis suggests that it could be an ancestral enzyme from which both ecto-ATPases and CD39 ecto-apyrases are derived.
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