BTB/POZ Domain Containing Protein 10 (BTBD10)

A novel human BTB domain-containing protein named BTBD10. The cDNA contained an open-reading frame (ORF) of 1428 bp encoding a putative 475-amino acid (aa) protein. The BTBD10 gene was located on human chromosome 11p15.2 and consisted of nine exons spanning about 75.2 kilobase pairs (kb) of the human genome. The cDNA microarray analysis showed that BTBD10 was down-regulated in all 18 glioma samples. The expression pattern of BTBD10 gene was examined by multiple tissue cDNA (MTC) panels (Clontech), which showed a ubiquitous expression pattern in the 16 tissues examined with high expression in adult brain, testis and small intestine and weak expression in the heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen, thymus, prostate, ovary and colon.