Abstract
Complementary and genomic DNA clones corresponding to the human serum amyloid P component (SAP) mRNA have been isolated and analyzed. The nucleotide sequences of the cDNA and the corresponding regions of the genomic SAP DNA reported here were identical, and revealed that after coding for a signal peptide of 19 amino acids and the first two amino acids of the mature SAP protein, there is one small intron of 115-base pairs (bp), followed by a nucleotide sequence coding for the remaining 202 amino acid residues. The SAP gene has an ATATAAA sequence 29-bp upstream from the cap site, but there is no CAAT box-like sequence. A possible polyadenylation signal sequence, ATTAAA, was found to be located 28-bp upstream from the polyadenylation site. A comparison of the genomic SAP DNA sequence with that of human C-reactive protein (CRP) revealed a striking overall homology which was not uniform: several highly conserved regions were bounded by non-homologous regions. This comparison provides further support for the hypothesis that SAP and CRP are products of a gene duplication event.
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