Abstract

The nuclear phosphoprotein cAMP-response-element-binding-protein 1 (CREB1) is involved in the transcriptional regulation of cAMP-inducible genes. We have determined the chromosomal location of the human CREB1 gene by using a cDNA probe. Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA from a panel of mouse-human somatic cell hybrids indicated that the CREB1 gene resides on human chromosome 2. Analysis of a somatic cell hybrid containing a chromosome 2 translocation narrowed assignment of the CREB1 locus to the terminal third of chromosome 2. Finally, in situ hybridization allowed localization of the gene to the 2q32.3–q34 region. This knowledge may prove valuable in molecular analysis of translocations occurring in this region and in exploring the possibility of a role for the CREB1 locus in malignancy.

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