Thioredoxin Reductase 3 Intronic Transcript 1 (TXNRD3IT1)

The full-length cDNA of TXNRD3NT1 was isolated and characterized by combining 5'- and 3'-RACE with screening a keratinocyte cDNA library, designing appropriate PCR primers, cloning amplified products, sequencing, and sequence analysis. The full-length TXNRD3NT1 cDNA has 1133 nucleotides with a 251-bp 3-UTRand 2 poly(A)signal variants and 2 poly (A) sites. The TXNRD3NT1 cDNA ORF encodes for 133 amino acids, with the first four residues coding for a tubulin-beta mRNA autoregulation signal. Mapping the cDNA nucleotide sequence to the human genome sequence revealed that the TXNRD3NT1 gene has 4 exons located on Chromosome 3, at position 3q21. Exons 1 and 2 of the TXNRD3NT1 gene overlap with exons 15 and 16 of the thioredoxin reductase 2 gene which has different ORFs to that of TXNRD3NT1.