| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T1 |
0-162 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Expression cloning and characterization of a novel murine alpha1, 3-fucosyltransferase, mFuc-TIX, that synthesizes the Lewis x (CD15) epitope in brain and kidney. |
| T2 |
163-391 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The 3-fucosyl-N-acetyllactosamine (Lewis x, CD15, SSEA-1) carbohydrate epitope is widely distributed in many tissues and is developmentally expressed in some rodent and human tissues, i.e. brain and lung, and mouse early embryo. |
| T3 |
392-484 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In such tissues, the Lewis x epitope is considered to be involved in cell-cell interactions. |
| T4 |
485-636 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We isolated a novel mouse alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase gene, named mFuc-TIX, from an adult mouse brain cDNA library using the expression cloning method. |
| T5 |
637-799 |
Sentence |
denotes |
On flow cytometric analysis, Namalwa cells transfected stably with the mFuc-TIX gene showed a marked increase in Lewis x epitopes but not sialyl Lewis x epitopes. |
| T6 |
800-996 |
Sentence |
denotes |
As seen experiments involving oligosaccharides as acceptor substrates, mFuc-TIX transfers a fucose to lacto-N-neotetraose but not to either alpha2,3-sialyl lacto-N-neotetraose or lacto-N-tetraose. |
| T7 |
997-1116 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The substrate specificity of mFuc-TIX was similar to that of mouse myeloid-type alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase (mFuc-TIV). |
| T8 |
1117-1424 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The deduced amino acid sequence of mFuc-TIX, consisting of 359 residues, indicated a type II membrane protein and shows low degrees of homology to the previously cloned alpha1,3-fucosyltransferases, i.e. mFuc-TIV (48.4%), mouse Fuc-TVII (39.1%), and human Fuc-TIII (43.0%), at the amino acid sequence level. |
| T9 |
1425-1608 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A phylogenetic tree of the alpha1, 3-fucosyltransferases constructed by the neighbor-joining method showed that mFuc-TIX is quite distant from the other alpha1, 3-fucosyltransferases. |
| T10 |
1609-1683 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Thus, mFuc-TIX does not belong to any subfamilies of known alpha1,3Fuc-Ts. |
| T11 |
1684-1925 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The mFuc-TIX transcript was mainly detected in brain and kidney with the Northern blotting and competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction methods, whereas the mFuc-TIV transcript was not detected in brain with these methods. |
| T12 |
1926-2055 |
Sentence |
denotes |
On in situ hybridization, the mFuc-TIX transcript was detected in neuronal cells but not in the glial cells including astrocytes. |
| T13 |
2056-2202 |
Sentence |
denotes |
These results strongly indicated that mFuc-TIX participates in the Lewis x synthesis in neurons of the brain and may be developmentally regulated. |