简介：Inourpreviousstudies,DAZAP2geneexpressionwasdown-regulatedinuntreatedpatientsofmultiplemyeloma(MM).ForbetterstudyingthestructureandfunctionofDAZAP2,afull-lengthCdnawasisolatedfrommononuclearcellsofanormalhumanbonemarrow,sequencedanddepositedtoGenbank(AY430097).ThissequencehasanidenticalORF(openreadingframe)astheNM_014764fromhumantestisandtheD31767fromhumancelllineKG-1.PhylogeneticanalysisandstructurepredictionrevealthatDAZAP2homologuesarehighlyconservedthroughoutevolutionandshareapolyprolineregionandseveralpotentialSH2/SH3bindingsites.DAZAP2occursasasingle-copygenewithafour-exonorganization.WefurthernoticedthatthefunctionalDAZAP2geneislocatedonChromosome12anditspseudogenegeneisonChromosome2withelectroniclocationofhumanchromosomeinGenbank,thoughnogeneticabnormalitiesofMMhavebeenreportedonChromosome12.TheORFofhumanDAZAP2encodesa17-kDaprotein,whichishighlysimilartomousePrtb.TheDAZAP2proteinismainlylocalizedincytoplasmwithadiscretepatternofpunctuateddistribution.DAZAP2mayassociatewithcarcinogenesisofMMandparticipateinyet-to-beidentifiedsignalingpathwaystoregulateproliferationanddifferentiationofplasmacells.