Table 4.
Components of the metabolism and cell signaling/communication preferentially expressed in pituitary gland.
| Function and tag sequences | Tag frequency |
Description (UniGene cluster, GenBank accession no.) | Chromosomal location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parietal cortex | Hypothalamus | Pituitary gland | |||
| TRANSPORT | |||||
| AAGGGTGCTGG | 6 | 7 | 39 | Annexin A5 (Mm.1620, NM_009673) | 3 |
| TGACTAGCGTG | 2 | 0 | 48 | Chromogranin B (Mm.255241, NM_007694) | 2 |
| CAGCCGGCTAT | 4 | 1 | 53 | Chromogranin B (Mm.255241, AK019893) | |
| GCTGTGGCCCT | 1 | 1 | 9 | RAB4B, member RAS oncogene family (Mm.197516, NM_019394) | 7 |
| TGATCTGCCCA | 0 | 0 | 10 | RAB25, member RAS oncogene family (Mm.26994, NM_016899) | 3 |
| AMINO ACID METABOLISM | |||||
| AAGTGTCGCTG | 0 | 0 | 41 | Mus musculus similar to spermidine/spermine Nl-acetyltransferase (LOC231081; Mm.319224, XM_131957) | X |
| INTRACELLULAR TRANSDUCERS | |||||
| ATAATGAATAA | 0 | 0 | 17 | Delta- like 1 homolog Drosophila (Mm.157069, NM_010052) | 12 |
| AGCCCCCTATT | 0 | 1 | 12 | EST dystrophia myotonica kinase, B15 (Mm.6529, BC056615) | 7 |
| ACTATGGATGT | 0 | 0 | 15 | Guanine nucleotide binding protein, beta 3 (Mm.68889, NM_013530) | 6 |
| CAGGGCCTCAC | 0 | 0 | 21 | Tumor-associated calcium signal transducer 1 (Mm.4259, BC005618) | 17 |
| TGCATAATTAA | 0 | 0 | 12 | Tumor-associated calcium signal transducer 1 (Mm.4259, XM_147278) | |
| CELL ADHESION | |||||
| TGACTCCTTGC | 3 | 4 | 29 | CD164 antigen (Mm.269815, NM_016898) | 10 |
All tags are expressed at higher levels in the pituitary gland compared to other two regions, p < 0.05.