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Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage
BACKGROUND: Mutations in the gene encoding human myocilin (MYOC) have been shown to cause juvenile- and adult-onset glaucoma. In addition, myocilin has been associated with glucocorticoid-induced ocular hypertension and steroid-induced glaucoma. To better understand the role myocilin plays in steroi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC156599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12697062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-4-5 |
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author | Shepard, Allan R Jacobson, Nasreen Sui, Ruifang Steely, H Thomas Lotery, Andrew J Stone, Edwin M Clark, Abbot F |
author_facet | Shepard, Allan R Jacobson, Nasreen Sui, Ruifang Steely, H Thomas Lotery, Andrew J Stone, Edwin M Clark, Abbot F |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mutations in the gene encoding human myocilin (MYOC) have been shown to cause juvenile- and adult-onset glaucoma. In addition, myocilin has been associated with glucocorticoid-induced ocular hypertension and steroid-induced glaucoma. To better understand the role myocilin plays in steroid-induced glaucoma and open-angle glaucoma, we examined rabbit myocilin for use in the rabbit animal model of steroid-induced glaucoma. RESULTS: We have cloned the rabbit ortholog of human MYOC. Rabbit MYOC consists of three exons and an open reading frame encoding a 490 amino acid, 54,882-Da protein, which is 14 amino acids shorter at the N-terminus than human myocilin but 84% identical overall. Rabbit myocilin migrates as a single electrophoretic band, vs. double-banded human myocilin, by SDS-PAGE/immunoblot analysis. We determined that the differential migration exhibited is due to an N-glycosylation site that is present in human (Asn57), monkey and mouse myocilin but absent in rabbit (Ser43), rat and bovine myocilin. Rabbit myocilin is secreted in vitro in trabecular meshwork cell culture and in vivo in aqueous humor. Secretion of human myocilin is shown to be dependent on the signal peptide and independent of the extra 14 amino acids not found in rabbit myocilin. Many of the amino acids in myocilin that are mutated in glaucoma patients are conserved across species. CONCLUSION: We have cloned the rabbit MYOC cDNA and determined that rabbit myocilin is secreted but not N-linked glycosylated. Knowledge of the rabbit MYOC cDNA sequence will facilitate future studies in the rabbit animal model examining the role of myocilin in steroid-induced glaucoma and the gain-of-function hypothesis in open-angle glaucoma. |
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spelling | pubmed-1565992003-06-05 Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage Shepard, Allan R Jacobson, Nasreen Sui, Ruifang Steely, H Thomas Lotery, Andrew J Stone, Edwin M Clark, Abbot F BMC Genet Research Article BACKGROUND: Mutations in the gene encoding human myocilin (MYOC) have been shown to cause juvenile- and adult-onset glaucoma. In addition, myocilin has been associated with glucocorticoid-induced ocular hypertension and steroid-induced glaucoma. To better understand the role myocilin plays in steroid-induced glaucoma and open-angle glaucoma, we examined rabbit myocilin for use in the rabbit animal model of steroid-induced glaucoma. RESULTS: We have cloned the rabbit ortholog of human MYOC. Rabbit MYOC consists of three exons and an open reading frame encoding a 490 amino acid, 54,882-Da protein, which is 14 amino acids shorter at the N-terminus than human myocilin but 84% identical overall. Rabbit myocilin migrates as a single electrophoretic band, vs. double-banded human myocilin, by SDS-PAGE/immunoblot analysis. We determined that the differential migration exhibited is due to an N-glycosylation site that is present in human (Asn57), monkey and mouse myocilin but absent in rabbit (Ser43), rat and bovine myocilin. Rabbit myocilin is secreted in vitro in trabecular meshwork cell culture and in vivo in aqueous humor. Secretion of human myocilin is shown to be dependent on the signal peptide and independent of the extra 14 amino acids not found in rabbit myocilin. Many of the amino acids in myocilin that are mutated in glaucoma patients are conserved across species. CONCLUSION: We have cloned the rabbit MYOC cDNA and determined that rabbit myocilin is secreted but not N-linked glycosylated. Knowledge of the rabbit MYOC cDNA sequence will facilitate future studies in the rabbit animal model examining the role of myocilin in steroid-induced glaucoma and the gain-of-function hypothesis in open-angle glaucoma. BioMed Central 2003-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC156599/ /pubmed/12697062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-4-5 Text en Copyright © 2003 Shepard et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shepard, Allan R Jacobson, Nasreen Sui, Ruifang Steely, H Thomas Lotery, Andrew J Stone, Edwin M Clark, Abbot F Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
title | Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
title_full | Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
title_fullStr | Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
title_short | Characterization of rabbit myocilin: Implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
title_sort | characterization of rabbit myocilin: implications for human myocilin glycosylation and signal peptide usage |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC156599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12697062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-4-5 |
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