PTMS (gene) explained

Parathymosin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PTMS gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Hannappel E, Huff T . The thymosins. Prothymosin alpha, parathymosin, and beta-thymosins: structure and function. . Vitam. Horm. . 66 . 257–96 . 2003 . 12852257 . 10.1016/s0083-6729(03)01007-0.
• Clinton M, Graeve L, el-Dorry H, etal . Evidence for nuclear targeting of prothymosin and parathymosin synthesized in situ. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 88 . 15 . 6608–12 . 1991 . 1862085 . 10.1073/pnas.88.15.6608 . 52136 . 1991PNAS...88.6608C . free .
• Panneerselvam C, Caldarella J, Horecker BL . A radioimmunoassay for parathymosin. . J. Immunol. Methods . 104 . 1–2 . 131–6 . 1988 . 2445824 . 10.1016/0022-1759(87)90496-0 .
• Clinton M, Frangou-Lazaridis M, Panneerselvam C, Horecker BL . The sequence of human parathymosin deduced from a cloned human kidney cDNA . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 158 . 3 . 855–62 . 1989 . 2537638 . 10.1016/0006-291X(89)92801-5 . free .
• Szabo P, Clinton M, Macera M, Horecker BL . Localization of the gene coding for parathymosin to chromosome 17 in humans . Cytogenet. Cell Genet. . 50 . 2–3 . 91–2 . 1989 . 2776490 . 10.1159/000132730 .
• Kondili K, Tsolas O, Papamarcaki T . Selective interaction between parathymosin and histone H1 . Eur. J. Biochem. . 242 . 1 . 67–74 . 1997 . 8954154 . 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0067r.x . free .
• Bruniquel D, Borie N, Triebel F . Genomic organization of the human LAG-3/CD4 locus . Immunogenetics . 47 . 1 . 96–8 . 1998 . 9382927 . 10.1007/s002510050332 . 11259106 .
• Okamoto K, Isohashi F . Purification and primary structure of a macromolecular-translocation inhibitor II of glucocorticoid-receptor binding to nuclei from rat liver. Inhibitor II is the 11.5-kDa Zn2+-binding protein (parathymosin) . Eur. J. Biochem. . 267 . 1 . 155–62 . 2000 . 10601862 . 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.00987.x .
• Vareli K, Frangou-Lazaridis M, van der Kraan I, etal . Nuclear distribution of prothymosin alpha and parathymosin: evidence that prothymosin alpha is associated with RNA synthesis processing and parathymosin with early DNA replication . Exp. Cell Res. . 257 . 1 . 152–61 . 2000 . 10854063 . 10.1006/excr.2000.4857 .
• 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 .
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, etal . Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network . Nature . 437 . 7062 . 1173–8 . 2005 . 16189514 . 10.1038/nature04209 . 2005Natur.437.1173R . 4427026 .

Notes and References

1. Martic G, Karetsou Z, Kefala K, Politou AS, Clapier CR, Straub T, Papamarcaki T . Parathymosin affects the binding of linker histone H1 to nucleosomes and remodels chromatin structure . J Biol Chem . 280 . 16 . 16143–50 . Apr 2005 . 15716277 . 10.1074/jbc.M410175200 . free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: PTMS parathymosin.