Multiple actin-related sequences in the Drosophila melanogaster genome
Multiple actin-related sequences in the Drosophila melanogaster genome
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果蝇基因组中多个肌动蛋白相关序列
DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(80)90393-1
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发表时间:
1980
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
B. Mccarthy
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作者:
S. Tobin;E. Zulauf;F. Sánchez;E. Craig;B. Mccarthy
In this paper we describe the isolation and characterization of a 7.2 kb D. melanogaster chromosomal DNA fragment (Kl) which contains nucleotide sequences complementary to D. melanogaster actin mRNA. Plasmid Kl was identified using a Dictyostelium actin cDNA plasmid, Bl, as a probe. D. melanogaster mRNA selected by hybridization with immobilized Kl DNA was translated in vitro to yield products which co-migrate with the D. melanogaster actins I, II and Ill in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and bind to DNAase I agarose. A physical map localizing restriction endonuclease cleavage sites in the Ki DNA fragment and the direction of transcription is presented. The position of the coding region has been localized by hybridization with labeled Bl DNA and with labeled poly (A)-containing D. melanogaster RNA. On the basis of hybridization of labeled subfragments of plasmid Kl to restriction endonuclease-cleaved D. melanogaster embryo DNA, we conclude that the nucleotide sequence of the presumptive coding region is responsible for labeling of a pattern of multiple restriction frag ments from embryo DNA. The chromosomal locus from which DNA fragment Kl is derived has been localized by in situ hybridization to two closely linked bands in the region 88F. Related DNA sequences corresponding to putative actin genes have also been mapped cytologically. These results support the hypothesis that the genes for actin in D. melanogaster are members of a closely related family of coding sequences.