Table 1.

Primers used in the RACE-PCR experiments for amplification of putative OBP and VEG splice variants.

	5′RACE		3′RACE
	5′Primer	3’ Primer	5′Primer	3′Primer
OBP	GeneRacer™ 5′primer	3′OBP primer: TCACTTGGCAGGACAGTCATCTCT	5′OBP primer: CACCCAGGAACCTCAACCTGAACA	GeneRacer™ 3′primer
VEG	GeneRacer™ 5′primer	3′VEG primer: CTAGTTCCCTCCTGGAGAGCAGGTTTCGCTTT	5′VEG primer: CAGGAGTTCCCGGCCGTGGGGCA	GeneRacer™ 3′primer

The sequence of the GeneRacer primers is available at www.invitrogen.com. Gene specific 5′ primers correspond to the first codons coding for the N-terminal of protein sequence (without signal peptide) and gene specific 3′ primers to the last codons of the C-terminal of the protein sequence.