Patent Application: US-70992396-A

Abstract:
the present invention comprises human dna compositions , including cdna clones , with full sequences , called , kirk - 2 and kirk - 3 , encoding proteins that confer potassium channel activity to membranes or recipient cell lines . the dna compositions include structural genes coding for the potassium channel proteins , expression and replication plasmids or vectors containing the structural genes and host cells expressing those genes . methods of screening compounds for potassium channel modulating activity are also described .

Description:
this invention relates to the cloning and isolation of human dnas encoding potassium atp - gated channel proteins . in one embodiment this invention comprises isolated functional cdna clones encoding human potassium atp - gated channel proteins , verified by using xenopus laevis oocytes as an expression system for studying ion channels . mammalian and a bacterial cell lines expressing functional human potassium atp - gated channels at the cell surface are described , as determined by pharmacologic and physiologic methods , thus establishing the first well - defined cell lines with which to study this particular member of a family of atp - gated channel proteins . in another embodiment the human potassium atp - gated channels are described as a possible high volume screen for novel compounds . this document uses abbreviations and terms that should be well known to those skilled in the art . some terms are more fully described in the sections below . this document also uses the terms : kirk 1 , kirk 2 and kirk 3 , these terms are analogous to the terms : k ir 1 . 1 ( or &# 34 ; the rom - k &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; romk &# 34 ;), k ir 1 . 2 and k ir 1 . 3 , respectively . the cdna encoding the entire open - reading frame of a birk 10 transcript was isolated by rt - pcr and this sequence used as a probe to determine the tissue distribution of expression of the birk 10 transcript in various rat organs by northern blot analysis . of the tissues examined , a 5 . 2 kb transcript was only detected in the brain and kidney . a cdna library prepared from the latter tissue was used to isolate the human birk 10 . a human kidney cdna library was screened at reduced stringency with the coding sequence of rat birk 10 . clonal cdnas prepared from these positives were grouped by restriction mapping and representative clones subjected to dna sequence analysis . comparative analysis of these cdna sequences revealed that among the clones that exhibited high homology to rat birk 10 , none of them appeared to contain the entire open - reading frame . in addition , a second set of related cdnas , were also identified and the latter sequence appeared novel . consistent with the emerging nomenclature in this field , we have named these two new human k channel cdnas kirk - 2 and kirk - 3 ( kidney inward rectifier k channel ), where the romk channel is referred to as kirk - 1 . an on - line blast search of the genbank database available through the national center for biotechnology information ( ncbi ) using the human romk1 cdna as the query sequence ( genbank accession # u12541 ) identified a related rat cdna sequence ( genbank accession # x83858 ). this cdna had been cloned from rat brain ( 4 ) rna and was referred to as brain inward rectifier k channel 10 ( birk 10 ). based on the cdna sequence in genbank , a sense oligonucleotide primer ( c12 - a 5 &# 39 ; cgc - ttt - gaa - ttc - atg - aca - tca - gtt - gcc - aag - gtc - tat - ta 3 &# 39 ; seq . id . no . 5 alignment positions 1 - 26 in x83858 ) and an antisense oligonucleotide primer ( c12 - b 5 &# 39 ; cgc - ttt - gaa - ttc - tca - gac - gtt - act - aat - gcg - cac - act - a seq . id . no . 6 , alignment positions 1116 - 1140 in x83858 ) were synthesized . total rna ( 10 μg ) isolated from rat brain was reversed transcribed using and oligo dt primer and reverse transcriptase . a portion of the resulting cdna was then amplified in the pcr employing the c12 - a and c12 - b primers . the 1 . 2 kb product was digested to completion with ecori and subcloned into the ecori site of the plasmid vector pbk - cmv to yield pbk - cmv / birk 10 . preliminary northern blot analysis using the rat birk 10 cdna as a probe revealed that in addition to the brain , birk 10 was also expressed in kidney . a human kidney cdna library in the bacteriophage λ gt10 was plated on e . coli strain dp50supf ( 500 , 000 recombinants ). the rat birk 10 cdna was excised from the plasmid pbk - cmv / birk 10 by digestion with ecori followed by preparative gel analysis . a portion of this fragment was then random prime labeled to a specific activity of & gt ; 1 . 0 × 10 9 dpm 32 p / μg dna using α - 32 p - datp and klenow dna polymerase . replicate lifts of the bacteriophage library were screened with the 32 p - labeled rat birk 10 ecori fragment ( 5 × 10 6 dpm / ml ) overnight at 65 ° c . the filters were then washed with 0 . 3m nacl / 0 . 1 % sds at 65 ° c . and the coordinates of radioactivity on the filters determined by autoradiography at - 70 ° c . with intensifying screens . replicate positive bacteriophage clones from the primary screen were isolated from the agar plates and cloned by limiting dilution followed by rescreening as described above . fourteen distinct clonal bacteriophage stocks prepared from the hybridization positive clones were used to prepare λ - dna by infection of e . coli strain dp50supf at a multiplicity of infection of 0 . 02 . bacteriophage dna was prepared for the infected cultures using polyethylene glycol precipitation of the bacteriophage particles followed by destruction of the bacteriophage protein coat . bacteriophage dnas prepared in this manner were digested with ecori to produce the cdna inserts . the size of the liberated fragments was determined by agarose gel electrophoresis . based on the restriction mapping , 4representative clones were selected for dna sequence analysis . dna sequencing of the cdna inserts was performed by cycle sequencing dideoxy - chain termination method ( amplitaq kit , perkin - elmer - cetus , norwalk , connecticut ). in the case of kirk - 2 , a genomic clone was also isolated from a human genomic library in the vector λ fixii using one of the partial cdna clones obtained from the human kidney cdna library as described above . the tissue distribution of expression of both kirk - 2 and kirk - 3 was determined by northern blot analysis using mtn blots purchased from clonetech ( palo alto , calif .). for kirk - 2 , a 1 . 3 kb ecori fragment containing the 3 &# 39 ; end of the kirk - 2 open - reading frame and approximately 0 . 6 kb of 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequence was used as a probe . for kirk - 3 , a 1 . 4 kb ecori / muni fragment containing the entire open reading frame of kirk - 3 was used as a probe . in either case , the fragments were random prime labeled using α - 32 p - datp as described above followed by hybridization to nylon membranes containing poly a + rnas from various human tissues or human brain regions as previously described ( 26 ). somatic cell hybrid panel blots were purchased from oncor ( gaitherburg , md .) and hybridized to either of the kirk cdna probes described above under the conditions recommended by the manufacture ( 50 % formamide / 6x ssc / 10 % dextran sulfate / 1 . 0 % sds / 50 μg / ml calf thymus dna at 50 ° c . overnight ). in all cases , the blots were washed at high stringency ( 0 . 1x ssc ) and labeled bands visualized by autoradiography . the open - reading frame of kirk - 2 was engineered for expression in xenopus oocytes using the pcr . sense ( 5 &# 39 ; cag - aag - tta - agt - cga - cat - gac - gtc - agt - tgc - caa - ggt - gta - tt 3 &# 39 ; seq . id . no . 7 ) and antisense ( 5 &# 39 ; cag - aag - tta - agc - ggc - cgc -( t ) 28 - cag - aca - ttg - ctg - atg - cgc - aca - ct 3 &# 39 ; seq . id . no . 8 ) primers that flank the open - reading frame of kirk - 2 were used to pcr amplify this region of the genomic clone for kirk - 2 ( 20 cycles with 0 . 5 μg template / reaction ). see shuck , m . e , bock , j . h ., benjamin , c . w ., tsai , t - d ., lee , k . s ., slightom , j . l . and bienkowski , m . j . &# 34 ; cloning and characterization of multiple forms of the human kidney rom - k potassium channel .&# 34 ; j . biol . chem . 269 : 24261 - 24270 ( 1994 ), incorporated by reference . the product was digested to completion with sali and noti and cloned into the plasmid vector psport - 1 to yield psport / kirk - 2 . for kirk - 3 , the original λ - clone was double digested with ecori and muni and subcloned into the plasmid vector pbk - cmv to yield pbk - cmv / kirk - 3 . this plasmid was then double - digested with ecori / acci and directionally cloned into psport / rromk1 to introduce the poly a tail from the rat romk1 cdna ( 1 ). see , ho , k ., nichols , c . g ., lederer , w . j ., lytton , j ., vassilev , p . m ., kanazirska , m . v . and hebert , s . c . &# 34 ; cloning and expression of an inwardly rectifying atp - regulated potassium channel .&# 34 ; nature 362 : 31 - 38 ( 1993 ), incorporated by reference . in each case , crna was synthesized from noti - linearized template use t7 rna polymerase as previously described ( 26 ), incorporated by reference . oocytes were collected under tricaine ( 3 - aminobenzoic acid ethyl ester , 0 . 17 %; sigma , st . louis , mo .) and cold - induced anesthesia from adult african clawed frogs , xenopus laevis ( nasco , ft . atkinson , wis . ), and defolliculated by blunt dissection in ca 2 + free nd - 96 following 40 minutes incubation in 2 mg / ml collagenase ( type ii ; sigma , st . louis , mo .). nd - 96 consisted of 96 mm nacl , 2 mm kcl , 1 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 3 mm cacl 2 , 5 mm hepes , ph 7 . 6 . the following day , a glass injection pipette manually broken to ˜ 15 μm tip diameter was used to inject oocytes with 46 nl of polyadenylated crna dissolved in water at 15 , 30 or 100 ng / μl resulting in injection of 0 . 6 , 1 . 2 , or 4 ng of crna . prior to recordings , oocytes were maintained 2 - 7 days at 20 ° c . in nd - 96 supplemented with gentamycin ( 50 mg / ml ; bio - whittaker , walkersville , md .) and sodium - pyruvate ( 2 . 5 mm ; sigma ). electrophysiological recordings were conducted at room temperature . oocyte resting membrane potential was measured in nd - 96 using 30 - 80 mω glass microelectrodes filled with 3m kcl for two - microelectrode voltage - clamp recordings , the voltage - measuring pipette had resistances of 1 . 5 to 2 . 0 mω , while the current - injection pipette had resistances of 0 . 7 - 0 . 9 mω ; both pipettes were filled with 3m kcl . all voltage - clamp recordings were conducted in bath solutions containing 1 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 3 mm cacl 2 , and 5 mm hepes . for experiments conducted in 50 mm k + , the solution contained 50 mm kcl and 50 mm nacl . for lower potassium concentrations , this solution was mixed with an identical solution in which choline was substituted for potassium . pairs of solutions at ph 5 . 4 and 8 . 4 , containing 50 mm kcl and either 50 mm potassium - acetate or 50 mm potassium - hydrogen phthalate ( biphthalate ; sigma , st . louis , mo .) were mixed to vary ph . two - microelectrode , voltage - clamp recordings were conducted using the geneclamp 500 ( axon instruments , la jolla , calif .) interfaced with a 486 computer running the pclamp 6 . 0 ( axon instruments , la jolla , calif .) suite of programs . currents were filtered at 2 khz and sampled every 100 μs . current amplitude was measured during the last 4 ms of a 400 ms test pulse . data were analyzed and plotted using pclamp 6 . 0 and sigma plot 5 . 0 ( jandel scientific , san rafael , calif .). statistical significance was determined by the student &# 39 ; s t - test . the dna sequence and predicted amino acid sequence of hkirk - 2 and hkirk - 3 are shown in sequence listings 1 - 4 . the human kirk - 2 ( birk 10 ) sequence , derived from a composite of both cdna and genomic sequence , contains a 1128 bp open - reading frame that encodes a 376 amino acid polypeptide that showed 91 % shared identity with the rat birk 10 amino acid sequence . consistent with the predicted structures of other members of this family of k channels , the sequence of human kirk - 2 contains two putative transmembrane domains that flank an h - 5 region that forms an integral part of the k + - selective pore . more detailed analysis of the predicted amino acid sequence of hkirk - 2 using the motif algorithm revealed 2 canonical asn - linked glycosylation acceptor sites , 6 consensus acceptor sites for casein kinase ii , and 6 consensus pkc acceptor sites . also , the predicted walker type a atp binding motif ( gx 4 gkx 7 ( i / v ), is conserved in the hkirk - 2 sequence . the hkirk - 3 cdnas predicted an 1125 bp open - reading frame that encodes a 375 amino acid polypeptide that was 62 % identical and 47 % identical to the hkirk - 2 and hkirk - 1 amino acid sequences , respectively . the two putative transmembrane domains flanking an h - 5 region were also evident in the predicted amino acid sequence of hkirk - 3 . analysis of the predicted amino acid sequence of hkirk - 3 using the motif algorithm revealed 2 canonical acceptor sites for asnglycosylation , 5 consensus sites for casein kinase ii , 4 consensus pkc . sites and 3 consensus tyrosine kinase acceptor sites near the c - terminus of the protein . in contrast to the hkirk - 1 and hkirk - 2 sequences , the consensus walker type a atp - binding motif gx 4 gkx 7 ( i / v ), is not conserved in the hkirk - 3 sequence . the k channels synthesized following injection of either kirk 2 or kirk 3 polyadenylated crnas into xenopus oocytes were studied using standard electrophysiological procedures . forty - eight hours post injection of 4 ng of kirk 2 crna , the oocyte resting membrane potential was hyperpolarized by 49 mv (- 93 ± 3 mv ( n = 25 )) when compared to water - injected oocytes (- 44 ± 3 mv , n = 16 , p & lt ; 0 . 001 )). the observed resting membrane potential of kirk 2 - injected oocytes was close to the calculated potassium equilibrium potential of - 106 mv at 2 mm extracellular k + and assuming 130 mm intracellular k + . thus , the kirk 2 - injected cells expressed a potassium - selective ion channel that was not detected in water - injected cells . in contrast , injection of oocytes with up to 4 ng of polyadenylated kirk 3 crna did not apparently significantly alter the membrane potential compared to water injected oocytes (- 49 ± 4 mv ( n = 17 )- versus - - 44 ± 3 mv ( n = 17 ), respectively ). the reasons for this apparent anomaly remain unknown at this time . fig1 shows current voltage curves from a single batch of oocytes injected with either water =∇; kirk 2 = k ir 1 . 2 =∘; or kirk 3 , = k ir 1 . 3 =▴. the x - axis shows voltage ( mv ) the y - axis is current ( μa ). oocytes expressing kirk 2 channels displayed large inward currents in response to voltage steps negative of the potassium equilibrium potential (- 20 mv in 50 mm k + ) and these currents were not detected in water - injected cells . for example , whole - cell current measured during a test pulse to - 140 mv from a holding potential of - 20 mv in 50 mm k + was - 4 . 4 ± 0 . 5 ( n = 4 ) and - 22 . 4 ± 4 . 9 μa ( n = 7 ) in oocytes injected with 1 . 2 or 4 ng of kirk 2 crna , respectively , but was only - 125 ± 13 na in water - injected cells ( n = 8 ). consistent with the lack of membrane hyperpolarization in oocytes injected with kirk 3 crna , the whole - cell current was actually smaller than the current measured in water - injected oocytes (- 161 ± 27 na at - 140 mv , n = 4 ). kirk 2 currents measured during voltage steps positive of the potassium equilibrium potential were distinctly smaller than those measured during steps negative of the k + equilibrium potential , creating a mild , inward rectification . some kirk channel pore - forming polypeptides fail to produce detectable currents when expressed alone in oocytes . co - expression of kirk channel subunits has produced both reconstitution of channel activity , krapivinsky , g ., gordon , e . a ., wickman , k ., velimirovic , b ., krapivinsky , l . and clapman , d . e . &# 34 ; the g - protein - gated atrial k + channel i kach is a heteromultimer of two inwardly rectifying k + channel proteins .&# 34 ; nature 374 : 135 - 141 ( 1995 ) and duprat , f ., lesage , f ., guillemare , e ., fink , m ., hugnot , j - p ., bigay , j ., lazdunski , m ., romey , g . and barhanin , j . &# 34 ; heterologous multimeric assembly is essential for k + channel activity of neuronal and cardiac g - protein activated inward rectifiers .&# 34 ; biochem . biophys . res . comm . 212 : 657 - 663 ( 1995 ), as well as decreases in currents compared to those produced by homomeric co - expression . tucker , s . j ., bond , c . t ., herson , p ., pessia , m ., and adelman , j . p . ( 1996 ) &# 34 ; inhibitory interactions between two inward rectifier k + channel subunits mediated by the transmembrane domains .&# 34 ; j . biol . chem . 271 : 5866 - 5870 . the effect of coexpression of kirk 3 crna with suboptimal amounts of either kirk 1 ( fig2 a ) or kirk 2 ( fig2 b ) crna ( 0 . 6 ng ) was determined and the results are shown in fig2 a and 2b . in fig2 a and 2b the axis &# 39 ; are the same as for fig1 . in fig2 a , kirk 1 = k ir 1 . 1 =∇ and kirk 1 plus kirk 3 = k ir 1 . 1 plus k ir 1 . 3 =▾. in fig2 b , kirk 2 = k ir 1 . 2 =∘ and kirk 2 plus kirk 3 = k ir 1 . 2 plus k ir 1 . 3 =. expression of kirk 1 or kirk 2 , channels alone produced - 1 . 14 ± 0 . 15 ( n = 5 ) and - 1 . 14 ± 0 . 34 ( n = 5 ) μa of current , respectively , at a holding potential of - 160 mv . co - injection of a 6 . 7 - fold excess of kirk 3 decreased kirk 1 and kirk 2 currents by 54 % and 51 % to - 0 . 52 ± 0 . 03 ( p & lt ; 0 . 005 , n = 5 ) μa and - 0 . 56 ± 0 . 09 ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 , n = 4 ) μa , respectively . the kirk 2 channel forms a k + - selective ba 2 + - sensitive channel . the dependence of reversal potential on extracellular k + and ba 2 + was determined , see fig3 . the dependence of reversal potential on extracellular k + is similar to that expected for a potassium - selective channel at room temperature ( slope - per - decade change of 55 mv . the effect of varying extracellular k + ! on the current - voltage relationship of kirk 2 expressing oocytes was investigated and the membrane conductance of kirk 2 was dependent on extracellular k + !, fig3 a . the axis for fig3 a is the same as for fig1 . in fig3 a , 5 mm k + =∘, 10 mm k + =, 25 mm k + =∇, 50 mm k + =▾. the relationship g = c k + ! 0 z relates conductance , g , obtained by fitting the linear portion of the current - voltage curves ( dotted lines ), to external potassium concentration . c and z were varied to produce the best fit of these data , fig3 b . in fig3 b the y - axis is g / gmax and the x - axis is k + ! ( mm ). the z value for kirk 2 was 0 . 54 , similar to the values of 0 . 62 , 0 . 47 , and 0 . 38 - 0 . 49 for the cardiac ik1 ( 28 , 29 ), mouse macrophage irk1 ( 3 ), and human romk isoforms 1 - 3 , respectively . the square root dependence of membrane conductance on extracellular k + concentration is typical of the multi - ion pore of inward rectifier k + channels . application of ba 2 + ( 0 . 03 μm to 10 mm ) produced a reversible , concentrationdependent inhibition of kirk 2 current , fig3 c , n = 8 ). in fig3 c , the axis are the same as in fig1 and 2 , control =∘, 30 μm ba 2 + =, 300 μm ba 2 + =∇, and wash =∇. the inhibition by ba 2 + was time - and voltage - dependent as expected for the open - channel block typical of the effects of ba 2 + on native and cloned inward - rectifier k + channels . the concentration - dependence of kirk 2 inhibition by ba 2 + at three different holding potentials is shown in fig3 d . in fig3 d , n = 8 ) the x - axis is the relative current and the y - axis the concentration of ba 2 + ( m ); the three curved lines show - 120 mv =∘, - 80 mv =, and - 40 mv =∇. these data were fitted by a simple logistic equation with a hill coefficient of 2 and the resulting k i values were plotted versus membrane potential in fig3 e . fit of these data by the woodhull equation suggests that the ba 2 + binding site senses 46 % of the transmembrane electric field , in reasonable agreement with previously published results in birk - 10 injected oocytes . inhibition of kirk 2 by cs + was also reversible and voltage - dependent , being apparent only at the most negative potentials tested , but was far less effective than block by ba 2 + ( n = 6 , data not shown ). thus kirk 2 encodes an inwardly - rectifying , ba 2 + - and cs + - sensitive potassium channel . kirk - 2 is expressed at high levels in whole brain and kidney and few other tissues . kirk - 3 also showed a limited tissue distribution of expression ( kidney & gt ; pancreas & gt ;& gt ; lung ) and multiple transcript sizes were detected . in contrast to kirk - 2 which was most abundant in the brain , no kirk - 3 transcripts were detected in brain . the human chromosome location of the kirk - 2 and kirk - 3 was determined by southern blot analysis of genomic dna prepared from a panel of mouse / human or hamster / human somatic cell hybrids . the kirk - 2 and kirk - 3 genes localized to human chromosome 1 and human chromosome 21 , respectively . preparation of a bioassay using the expression systems based on the proteins described herein by making appropriate modifications to the procedures described in : bienkowski and groppi , wo 94 / 19464 , pct / us94 / 01210 , published 1 sep . 1994 , &# 34 ; human dna sequence encoding a kidney atp - dependent potassium channel ,&# 34 ; incorporated by reference , and using those procedures plus other appropriate procedures and techniques disclosed in other references cited herein , plus references and knowledge generally known to one skilled in the art , in combination with the information and sequences described herein , one skilled in the art should be able to prepare suitable vectors and / or plasmids comprising a dna molecule that is of the kirk - 2 or kirk - 3 type , sequence listings 1 and 2 , or derivatives thereof having at least about 80 , 85 , or preferably 90 percent homology to kirk - 2 or kirk - 3 , that are adapted for expression in a bacterial cell , a mammalian cell or a yeast cell and by using these bacterial , mammalian or yeast cells having those expressing vectors or plasmids one skilled in the art would be able to develop a method of using those cells to screen for compounds that modulate human kidney potassium channel activity . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 8 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 2896 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to mrna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( v ) fragment type : n - terminal ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : ctgatctgatcttatcttctctcttcttttctttgagtgtgaattttcctgtttccccca60ggctggagtgcagtggcgcgatgtcggctcactgcaacctctgtctcccgggttcaagcg120attctcctgcctcagcctcctgagtagctgggactacaggcgcatgccaccatgcccagc180taatttttgtatttttagtagagacagggttttgccttgttggccaggctggtcttgaac240tcctgacctcaggcgatccacccgcctcggcccctgcacagtgcctggcacatagcaagt300gctcaataaatatttggtaagacaagaacacataagcgacattcaaatgaatgtcaattc360ctccctcccatggggtgagggttaggagtcagctggatttctacgataacctccattatg420ctgtcttgctccctccagatgacgtcagttgccaaggtgtattacagtcagaccactcag480acagaaagccggcccctaatgggcccagggatacgacggcggagagtcctgacaaaagat540ggtcgcagcaacgtgagaatggagcacattgccgacaagcgcttcctctacctcaaggac600ctgtggacaaccttcattgacatgcagtggcgctacaagcttctgctcttctctgcgacc660tttgcaggcacatggttcctctttggcgtggtgtggtatctggtagctgtggcacatggg720gacctgctggagctggaccccccggccaaccacaccccctgtgtggtacaggtgcacaca780ctcactggagccttcctcttctcccttgaatcccaaaccaccattggctatggcttccgc840tacatcagtgaggaatgtccactggccattgtgcttcttattgcccagctggtgctcacc900accatcctggaaatcttcatcacaggtaccttcctggcgaagattgcccggcccaagaag960cgggctgagaccattcgtttcagccagcatgcagttgtggcctcccacaatggcaagccc1020tgcctcatgatccgagttgccaatatgcgcaaaagcctcctcattggctgccaggtgaca1080ggaaaactgcttcagacccaccaaaccaaggaaggggagaacatccggctcaaccaggtc1140aatgtgactttccaagtagacacagcctctgacagccccttccttattctaccccttacc1200ttctatcatgtggtagatgagaccagtcccttgaaagatctccctcttcgcagtggtgag1260ggtgactttgagctggtgctgatcctaagtgggacagtggagtccaccagtgccacctgt1320caggtgcgcacttcctacctgccagaggagatcctttggggctacgagttcacacctgcc1380atctcactgtcagccagtggtaaatacatagctgactttagcctttttgaccaagttgtg1440aaagtggcctctcctagtggcctccgtgacagcactgtacgctacggagaccctgaaaag1500ctcaagttggaggagtcattaagggagcaagctgagaaggagggcagtgcccttagtgtg1560cgcatcagcaatgtctgatgacctgttcccactcccccattcctctggtctcttttcctc1620tcttccaatgccctggtaaggaatactacccgggtttactggagatcccccgaagcaccc1680atcctccactccctcttctttaacccagtggcctgttggtagcttaggccaactggagtc1740caggttcgcctcccactgtcccctttccacttccccagcttctgccccaatacacatacc1800tcccttaagccaggatgggggaaagagtgggattaggctgaagtggcttagaaggcctca1860gccatgcttggatactcacattaggaggaccatgtggttggaaggatagactgcccccta1920cctcccaccaccaccatgaagtttggtgacttgaggctggagctccctctgttacctttc1980catctagcaagttcccaaaggcaagactctctctgatggtcactttgtggtctgtgcttt2040cagaaatacaggaatctgatatcaacatatcctagggtttctaccaatctctgttgaaag2100aagccagggtttgccactgtgaagcttgatttctgctggtgacttctgaccataagctag2160aaccatggtcgccactgttttccctctgtagtttctcaagtgaacactctcaggataccc2220agttccctcatagcctctgttctcagagaattggagttggcccaagaaacataaacatat2280aaccacccatatctatcctggattctgaactcttcaatttggagtgactaacacaagttg2340ttatctaaacctttaaacctatcttccaggcagcccagagaagatctgtttccctgtgtc2400ctgtgaatggaaggacccaagccaatatgttcctttgaaaagagtccagtacccaggccc2460catggaaaggtctgaaaataatattccagattacactgtacctggcttctcttcttcctt2520tcctgctcagcctagatccttcttccttaaccccaactctttgggagaagggagggaaaa2580tgcaagggccttcctctcttaacacggatgctcaagtaaaactagattcacagggcacag2640attccccagaaagttaacacaatcccaccatgagggatgggtaaattctcagatttccaa2700actgctgtacagagcctctgagaattggtgatgctttgttaaggtttgggcaggagcaga2760actctgtggctggcagccactattctcagttacacctcccagtgcccttctgaaaagtgc2820cagctatttcattaggcaatgctggaaggaaatgaaattataccttctgatcaaataacc2880atggcttccctcagcc2896 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1625 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to mrna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - 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sense : no ( v ) fragment type : n - terminal ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : cgctttgaattcatgacatcagttgccaaggtctatta38 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 37 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : yes ( v ) fragment type : n - terminal ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : cgctttgaattctcagacgttactaatgcgcacacta37 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 41 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( v ) fragment type : n - terminal ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : cagaagttaagtcgacatgacgtcagttgccaaggtgtatt41 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 42 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : yes ( v ) fragment type : n - terminal ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : cagaagttaagcggccgctcagacattgctgatgcgcacact42__________________________________________________________________________