| Conserved SAMS function in regulating egg-laying in C. elegans. | |
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PMID: 23316847 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Abstract S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) is an intermediate metabolite of methionine and serves as the methyl donor for many biological methylation reactions. The synthesis of SAM is catalyzed by SAM synthetase (SAMS), which transfers the adenosyl moiety of adenosine-5'-triphosphate to methionine. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, four sams family genes, sams-1, -3, -4 and -5, are predicted to encode SAMS proteins. However, their physiological roles remain unclear. Here we show that the four predicted SAMS proteins in fact have the ability to catalyze the formation of SAM in vitro, and revealed that only sams-1 mutant animals among the family genes exhibited a significant reduction in egg-laying. Using transgenic animals carrying a transcriptional reporter for each sams gene promoter, we observed that each sams promoter confers a distinct expression pattern with respect to tissue, time of expression and expression level (i.e. promoter specificity). Promoter-swap experiments revealed that the ectopic expression of SAMS-3, -4 or -5 driven by the sams-1 promoter completely rescued egg-laying in sams-1 mutants. These data indicate that SAMS protein function is conserved throughout the entire family. |
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Hiroko Tamiya; Keiko Hirota; Yuta Takahashi; Hiroaki Daitoku; Yuta Kaneko; Genki Sakuta; Kei Iizuka; Satoshi Watanabe; Naoaki Ishii; Akiyoshi Fukamizu |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-15 |
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Title: Journal of receptor and signal transduction research Volume: - ISSN: 1532-4281 ISO Abbreviation: J. Recept. Signal Transduct. Res. Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-15 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9509432 Medline TA: J Recept Signal Transduct Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Life Science Center, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba , 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki , Japan , and. |
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