Isolation of alpha-fetoprotein messenger RNA from mouse yolk sac.
Isolation of alpha-fetoprotein messenger RNA from mouse yolk sac.
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从小鼠卵黄囊中分离甲胎蛋白信使 RNA。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50625-6
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发表时间:
1979
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通讯作者:
T. Tamaoki
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作者:
K. Miura;S. Law;S. Nishi;T. Tamaoki
The purified AFP mRNA migrated as a single band at 21 S on an acid/urea/agarose gel. The molecular weight was estimated to be 9 x lo”, corresponding to about 2700 nucleotides, about 1000 nucleotides longer than required for coding for the AFP polypeptide. In wheat germ extracts, the AFP mRNA directed the synthesis of proteins, 98% of which reacted with specific anti-AFP. Identity of the translation product as AFP was further established by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence and absence of sodium dodecyl sulfate.DNA complementary to the AFP mRNA (AFP cDNA) was synthesized using avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase. The fidelity of transcription was indicated by high T,,,(92 C) of AFP cDNA-AFP mRNA hybrids. Using this cDNA, AFP mRNA sequences at various stages of AFP mRNA purification were assayed. Physical purification of AFP mRNA was in good agreement with enrichment of biological activity of AFP mRNA assayed in wheat germ extracts. Hybridization assays also confirmed the existence of nonpolyadenylated AFP mRNA reported earlier (Tamaoki, T., Miura, K., Lin, T., and Banks, P.(1976) in Onco-DeueZ-opmental Gene Expression(Fishman, WH, and Sell, S., eds) pp. 115-122, Academic Press, New York). The amount of AFP mRNA sequences in the adult mouse liver assayed by the cDNA probe was much lower than that of the fetal mouse liver. This, coupled with the previous results of cell-free assays of AFP mRNA activity in fetal and adult liver, indicates that transcription or post-transcriptional processing is the major site of control of AFP synthesis in development. The mouse yolk sac AFP cDNA reacted with polysomal RNA from rat yolk sac extensively forming stable hybrids. The mouse AFP cDNA also cross-reacted