Krieg P, Siebert M, Kinzig A, Bettenhausen R, Marks F, Fürstenberger G
Research Program on Tumor Cell Regulation, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany.
FEBS Lett. 1999 Mar 5;446(1):142-8. doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00196-9.
A cDNA, recently cloned (by Krieg et al. (1998)) from mouse skin, was shown to encode a 12(R)-lipoxygenase. When expressed in HEK cells, the recombinant protein converted methyl arachidonate into the corresponding 12-HETE ester which was shown to be the R-enantiomer by chiral phase chromatography. Neither arachidonic acid nor linoleic acid were substrates for the recombinant protein. The structure of the 12(R)-lipoxygenase gene is unique among all animal lipoxygenases in that it is divided into 15 exons and 14 introns spanning approximately 12.5 kb. By interspecific backcross analysis, the 12(R)-lipoxygenase gene was localized to the central region of mouse chromosome 11.
