Characterization of a chicken polyubiquitin gene preferentially expressed during spermatogenesis
- 11 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 279 (1) , 69-72
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(91)80253-y
Abstract
We have previously reported that a chicken polyubiquitin gene (Ub II) not expressed under normal or heat shock conditions in chick fibroblasis is transcribed during spermatogenesis [(1987) Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 9604]. The level of Ub II mRNA is several‐fold higher in testis cells than in somatic tissues. The gene Ub II possesses characteristic features not seen in the polyubiquitin gene expressed in heat shock conditions (Ub I). The 5′ noncoding region of Ub II shows the consensus cAMP regulatory element (CRE) followed immediately downstream by a CA dinucleotide. It has been proposed that this extended CRE may be involved in the coordinate expression of various genes during spermatogenesis.Keywords
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