PSG4 explained

Pregnancy-specific beta-1-glycoprotein 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PSG4 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Thompson J, Koumari R, Wagner K, etal . The human pregnancy-specific glycoprotein genes are tightly linked on the long arm of chromosome 19 and are coordinately expressed. . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 167 . 2 . 848–59 . 1990 . 1690992 . 10.1016/0006-291X(90)92103-7 . 10.1.1.655.1870 .
• Chan WY, Zheng QX, McMahon J, Tease LA . Characterization of new members of the pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein family. . Mol. Cell. Biochem. . 106 . 2 . 161–70 . 1991 . 1922019 . 10.1007/BF00230182 . 21581759 .
• Barnett TR, Pickle W, Elting JJ . Characterization of two new members of the pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein family from the myeloid cell line KG-1 and suggestion of two distinct classes of transcription unit. . Biochemistry . 29 . 44 . 10213–8 . 1991 . 2271648 . 10.1021/bi00496a009 .
• The human pregnancy-specific glycoprotein genes are tightly linked on the long arm of chromosome 19 and are coordinately expressed. . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 168 . 3 . 1325–1327 . 1990 . 2346490 . 10.1016/0006-291X(90)91174-Q . free .
• Thompson JA, Mauch EM, Chen FS, etal . Analysis of the size of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) gene family: isolation and sequencing of N-terminal domain exons. . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 158 . 3 . 996–1004 . 1989 . 2537643 . 10.1016/0006-291X(89)92821-0 . 10.1.1.657.2780 .
• Chan WY, Borjigin J, Zheng QX, Shupert WL . Characterization of cDNA encoding human pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein from placenta and extraplacental tissues and their comparison with carcinoembryonic antigen. . DNA . 7 . 8 . 545–55 . 1988 . 3180995 . 10.1089/dna.1.1988.7.545.
• Teglund S, Zhou GQ, Hammarström S . Characterization of cDNA encoding novel pregnancy-specific glycoprotein variants. . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 211 . 2 . 656–64 . 1995 . 7794280 . 10.1006/bbrc.1995.1862 .
• Olsen A, Teglund S, Nelson D, etal . Gene organization of the pregnancy-specific glycoprotein region on human chromosome 19: assembly and analysis of a 700-kb cosmid contig spanning the region. . Genomics . 23 . 3 . 659–68 . 1995 . 7851895 . 10.1006/geno.1994.1555 .
• Kimoto Y . A single human cell expresses all messenger ribonucleic acids: the arrow of time in a cell. . Mol. Gen. Genet. . 258 . 3 . 233–9 . 1998 . 9645429 . 10.1007/s004380050727 . 11818700 .
• Dias Neto E, Correa RG, Verjovski-Almeida S, etal . Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 97 . 7 . 3491–6 . 2000 . 10737800 . 10.1073/pnas.97.7.3491 . 16267 . 2000PNAS...97.3491D . free .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .

Notes and References

1. Zimmermann W, Weiss M, Thompson JA . cDNA cloning demonstrates the expression of pregnancy-specific glycoprotein genes, a subgroup of the carcinoembryonic antigen gene family, in fetal liver . Biochem Biophys Res Commun . 163 . 3 . 1197–209 . Oct 1989 . 2783133 . 10.1016/0006-291X(89)91105-4 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: PSG4 pregnancy specific beta-1-glycoprotein 4.