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We isolated rat UCP2 cDNA, which has been proposed to play an important role in mammalian thermogenesis and body weight regulation. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA revealed that the rat UCP2 protein is composed of 309 amino acid residues, and is 99% and 95% identical to the mouse and human proteins, respectively. The molecular weight of rat UCP2, calculated from the predicted amino acid sequence, was 33,369, and the UCP2 protein of this size was detected when the cDNA was expressed in vitro. Northern blot analysis revealed that the corresponding mRNA is approximately 1.7 kb in size, and is expressed in a variety of rat organs, with predominant expression in the heart, lung and spleen. UCP2 mRNA levels in the heart, liver, muscle and epididymal adipose tissue of Zucker fatty (fa/fa) rats were comparable to those in the lean littermates, while ob mRNA level markedly increased in the epididymal adipose tissue of Zucker (fa/fa) rats.
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