Murine Hn1 on Chromosome 11 is expressed in hemopoietic and brain tissues
Murine Hn1 on Chromosome 11 is expressed in hemopoietic and brain tissues
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DOI:
10.1007/s003359900540
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发表时间:
1997-09-01
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Chui, DHK
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作者:
Tang, WZ;Lai, YH;Chui, DHK
A novel 1.4-kb cDNA clone was isolated from a murine day 9, yolk sac blood islands-derived, primitive erythroid cell hgtll cDNA library as previously described (Chui et al. 1995). The clone is present in the library at a frequency of approximately one per 5000 phage plaques. It is expressed in many fetal and adult tissues, with highest levels of expression found in hemopoietic cells and fetal brain. We have designated the gene encoding the cDNA product as hemopoietic-and neurologic-expressed sequence 1, Hnl. Here we report the nucleotide sequence, tissue mRNA distribution, and chromosomal localization of Hnl. Figure 1 shows the nucleotide sequence of Hnl (GenBank accession number U90123) numbering 1356 bp, with an open reading frame coding for a putative peptide with 154 amino acids. To ascertain the sense strand sequence, poly-A-rich RNA extracted from murine fibroblast 3T3 cells was used as the template for reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), with two oligonucleotide primers flanking nt 641-1004 of Hnl. The results are consistent with the sequence as illustrated in Fig. 1, being the sense strand. There is no significant homology between Hnl and other known genes in the GenBank database search, with the" BLASTN" and" BLASTX" programs through the National Center for Biotechnology Information BLAST server. However, Hnl shares significant homology with many murine expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and at least 30 ESTs derived from many human cDNA libraries, including fetal, infant, and adult brains, fetal liver and spleen, white blood cells, placenta, endothelial cells, lung, prostate gland and testes.Northern blotting analysis was carried out with total cellular RNAs extracted from fetal and adult tissues. As shown in Fig. 2, with a PCR-generated radioactive probe corresponding to nt 641-1167, a 1.4-kb fragment was observed in all tissues examined. The highest levels of expression were found in hemopoietic cells, including day 10 yolk sac blood island-derived circulating erythroblasts, day 13 fetal liver which is the main site of fetal erythropoiesis, adult bone marrow, and spleen. The expression is also very high in day 17 fetal brain, while the expression in adult brain is considerably lower. Hnl is also expressed in murine erythroleukemia (MEL), myeloid (FDC-P1), myelomonocytic (WEHI-3), T (EL4), and Pre-B (70Z/3) cell lines as well as in the BL3 hemopoietic multipotential cell line (Wong et al. 1994), 3T3 fibroblast cell line, and PCC3 embryonic stem cell line. Northern blot analysis of RNAs from both fetal and adult tissues, hybridized with a PCR-generated probe corresponding to the PstI fragment of Hnl from nt 1043 to the 3'terminus, identical to that used to genetically map Hnl (see below), yielded identical