Figure 2

Gene organization of the vertebrate PTH-like family members. Exons are represented by boxes and lines indicate introns. Coding (E1 to E4) and non-coding (E1' to E'3) exons are numbered and annotated in bold and italics, respectively. Dotted-filled boxes represent the mature coding regions and black lines box the signal peptide sequence. Arrows represent alternative splice isoforms identified in Xenopus and chicken and previously reported in human. The general organization of the conserved vertebrate PTH gene structure is represented and the size of vertebrate PTHrP and PTH-L precursors is given (amino acids). The length of the chicken PTH-L precursor was predicted in silico and is indicated in italics. Dashed lines indicate incomplete structures that were not confirmed in silico or amplified by RT-PCR. The start of the mature peptide (+1) and the size of the signal peptide for all vertebrate PTH family members is indicated. The localization of the human PTHrP promoter regions (P1, P2 and P3) and the chicken PTHrP putative promoter sites (P1', P2' and P3') and TATA box consensus sequence within the region of P3' are shown. The figure is not drawn to scale and Takifugu A structure was taken from Power et al. [42].