An RFLP map of the baboon platelet-derived growth factor receptor gene.
An RFLP map of the baboon platelet-derived growth factor receptor gene.
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狒狒血小板衍生生长因子受体基因的 RFLP 图谱。
DOI:
10.1007/bf00364806
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发表时间:
1995
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Henkel,RD
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作者:
Perelygina,LM;Kammerer,CM;Henkel,RD
Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is a potent mitogen produced by a number of cell types including platelets, endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle ceils, fibroblasts, and macrophages (Ross 1986). PDGF stimulates the proliferation of many types of mesenchymal cells (reviewed in Ross et al. 1986) by binding to high-affinity receptors located in the membrane of target cell populations. Ligand binding by these receptors activates cellular signal transduction pathways through the tyrosine kinase activity (Marmur et al. 1992) associated with the intracellular domain of the molecule. There are two isoforms of the polypeptide subunits of PDGF receptors (PDGFR), designated c~ and~, that exhibit distinctive ligand-binding properties. The PDGFR-c~ subunit can bind either isoform of PDGF, whereas the 13 receptor subunit binds only one isoform (Ross et al. 1990a). Increased expression of B-type PDGF receptors has been reported in human arterial lesions (Rubin et al. 1988) and in primates (Ross et al. 1990b), suggesting a potential mechanism for the proliferation of smooth muscle cells associated with atherosclerosis. In the present report, we describe the detection and relative locations of ten polymorphic DNA markers in the gene encoding the baboon PDGFR-~ polypeptide. Because the baboon is used as a model for studying atherosclerosis (McGill et al. 1981; Henkel et al. 1993), these DNA markers will be useful for determining the effects of genetic variation in the PDGFR-~ locus on the susceptibility to vascular lesion formation. High-molecular-weight DNA was isolated according to established procedures (Sambrook et al. 1989) from baboon liver, and white blood cells from members of a large (n-700) pedigreed baboon colony (subspecies Papio hamadryus anubis and Ph cynocephalus). DNA samples (10 gg) were digested by different restriction enzymes and the resulting fragments separated by electrophoresis in a 0.8% agarose gel. DNA fragments were transferred to nylon membranes mad hybridized with radioactive eDNA probes encoding fragments of the 13-polypeptide of the human PDGF receptor. A cDNA clone encoding 2.65 kb of the human PDGFR-13-gene (Gronwald et al. 1988) was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (clone RP41). This probe does not cross-hybridize with the PDGFR-c~ gene under conditions used for Southern blotting (Majesky et al. 1990). Fragments were prepared from the 2.65-kb clone by digestion with PstI after excision from the plasmid with EcoRI. Probes were labeled with [ot32P]-dCTP and a commercial, random primer labeling kit. Hybridization reactions were carried out at 42~ in 50% formamide, 5x SSC, 5x Denhardt's solution, 0.1% SDS, 10% dextran sulfate, and 50 gg/ml salmon sperm DNA. Membranes were washed two times in 2x SSC/0.1% SDS for 20 rain followed by 0.2 x SSC/0.1% SDS for 10 min at 60~ Membranes were exposed to Kodak XAR film at-80~ Associations between RFLP genotypes were determined by Pearson's chi square analysis (Zar 1974). Use of the intact 2.65-kb eDNA clone of the human PDGFR-13