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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M003353200 on June 13, 2000
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 33, 25641-25651, August 18, 2000
Characterization of Human RhCG and Mouse Rhcg as Novel
Nonerythroid Rh Glycoprotein Homologues Predominantly Expressed in
Kidney and Testis*
Zhi
Liu ,
Ying
Chen ,
Rong
Mo§,
Chi-chung
Hui§,
Jan-Fang
Cheng¶,
Narla
Mohandas¶, and
Cheng-Han
Huang
From the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular
Genetics, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood
Center, New York, New York 10021, the § Program in
Developmental Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of
Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada, and the ¶ Life Sciences
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, California 94720
In mammals, the Rh family includes the variable
Rh polypeptides and invariant RhAG glycoprotein. These polytopic
proteins are confined to the erythroid lineage and are assembled into a multisubunit complex essential for Rh antigen expression and plasma membrane integrity. Here, we report the characterization of RhCG and
Rhcg, a pair of novel Rh homologues present in human and mouse nonerythroid tissues. Despite sharing a notable similarity to the
erythroid forms, including the 12-transmembrane topological fold, the
RHCG/Rhcg pair is distinct in chromosome location, genomic organization, promoter structure, and tissue-specific expression. RHCG and Rhcg map at 15q25 of human chromosome
15 and the long arm of mouse chromosome 7, respectively, each having 11 exons and a CpG-rich promoter. Northern blots detected kidney and
testis as the major organs of RHCG or Rhcg
expression. In situ hybridization revealed strong
expression of Rhcg in the kidney collecting tubules and
testis seminiferous tubules. Confocal imaging of transiently expressed
green fluorescence protein fusion proteins localized RhCG
exclusively to the plasma membrane, a distribution confirmed by
cellular fractionation and Western blot analysis. In vitro translation and ex vivo expression showed that RhCG carries
a complex N-glycan, probably at the
48NLS50 sequon of exoloop 1. These results
pinpoint RhCG and Rhcg as novel polytopic membrane glycoproteins that
may function as epithelial transporters maintaining normal homeostatic
conditions in kidney and testis.
*
This work was supported in part by National Institutes of
Health Grant HL54459 (to C.-H. H.).The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) AF193807, AF193808, AF193809, AF193810, AF183390, AF183391,
AF193811, AF193812, AF209468, AF219981 to AF219986, and AF238372 to
AF238377.
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Laboratory of
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Inst., New York Blood Center, 310 East 67th St., New York, NY 10021.
Tel: 212-570-3388; Fax: 212-570-3251; E-mail: chuang@nybc.org.
Copyright © 2000 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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