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Identification of New Tsga10 Transcript Variants in Human Testis With Conserved Regulatory Rna Elements in 5'Untranslated Region and Distinct Expression in Breast Cancer Publisher Pubmed



Salehipour P1 ; Nematzadeh M2 ; Mobasheri MB1, 3 ; Afsharpad M3 ; Mansouri K4 ; Modarressi MH1, 3
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  1. 1. Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Genetic, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of IRAN, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Source: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Published:2017


Abstract

Testis specific gene antigen 10 (TSGA10) is a cancer testis antigen involved in the process of spermatogenesis. TSGA10 could also play an important role in the inhibition of angiogenesis by preventing nuclear localization of HIF-1α. Although it has been shown that TSGA10 messenger RNA (mRNA) is mainly expressed in testis and some tumors, the transcription pattern and regulatory mechanisms of this gene remain largely unknown. Here, we report that human TSGA10 comprises at least 22 exons and generates four different transcript variants. It was identified that using two distinct promoters and splicing of exons 4 and 7 produced these transcript variants, which have the same coding sequence, but the sequence of 5'untanslated region (5'UTR) is different between them. This is significant because conserved regulatory RNA elements like upstream open reading frame (uORF) and putative internal ribosome entry site (IRES) were found in this region which have different combinations in each transcript variant and it may influence translational efficiency of them in normal or unusual environmental conditions like hypoxia. To indicate the transcription pattern of TSGA10 in breast cancer, expression of identified transcript variants was analyzed in 62 breast cancer samples. We found that TSGA10 tends to express variants with shorter 5'UTR and fewer uORF elements in breast cancer tissues. Our study demonstrates for the first time the expression of different TSGA10 transcript variants in testis and breast cancer tissues and provides a first clue to a role of TSGA10 5'UTR in regulation of translation in unusual environmental conditions like hypoxia. © 2017