Abstract
Two full-length cDNAs encoding porcine seminal proteins, PSP-I and PSP-II, have been isolated from a porcine seminal vesicle cDNA library. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the 706-bp PSP-I cDNA predicts a precursor protein of 133 amino acid residues, which includes a 21-residue signal peptide and a 112-residue secreted protein. On the other hand, the complete sequence of the 686-bp PSP-II cDNA reveals a coding sequence for a 21-residue signal peptide and a 116-residue secreted protein. The predicted amino acid sequences agree very well with those determined by conventional amino acid sequence analysis. Alignment of the two cDNA sequences shows an overall 66% sequence homology throughout their entire length. However, the sequence homology is much higher in the 3' untranslated region (72%) than in the coding region (61%). This suggests that these two genes evolved by duplication and divergence from a common ancestral gene. They share about 50% amino acid sequence homology and a similar overall structure with three members of the spermadhesin family.
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