Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Vol 60, Issue 2 285-294, Copyright © 1996 by Society for Leukocyte Biology
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MA Horton, KA Larson, JJ Lee and NA Lee
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
The mouse eosinophil peroxidase (mEPO) gene was cloned by screening a random-primed bone marrow cDNA library at reduced criteria using a hEPO cDNA. An mEPO cDNA was subsequently used to isolate the mEPO gene from a lambda-genomic library. The mEPO gene displays a high degree of conservation with its human homologue: the transcription units are approximately the same size, conserve the relative size and position of the 12 exons associated with each gene, and at a nucleotide level the mouse and human EPO genes are 86% identical in the protein coding regions and 66% identical in the 3'-untranslated trailer regions. This strong conservation extends to the encoded proteins which show approximately 90% amino acid identity. Expression of the mEPO gene is restricted to tissues containing eosinophil progenitor cells (e.g., bone marrow and spleen), a pattern similar to the expression of another murine eosinophil granule protein, major basic protein.
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