MODULATION OF MESSENGER-RNA FOR MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS DURING BRAIN-DEVELOPMENT
MODULATION OF MESSENGER-RNA FOR MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS DURING BRAIN-DEVELOPMENT
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.79.16.4892
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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LITTAUER, UZ
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GINZBURG, I;SCHERSON, T;LITTAUER, UZ
The heterogeneity of .tau. microtubule-associated proteins from rat brain is developmentally determined. Newborn rat brain contains 2 .tau. polypeptides (.tau.0) with somewhat different MW than the 5 .tau. components associated with microtubules from 12-day-old brain (.tau.12). .tau.0 and .tau.12 are immunologically related and crossreact with antibodies against .tau.12 proteins. Enrichment of the .tau. mRNA was achieved by prior hybridization of unfractionated poly(A)-containing mRNA to cDNA preparations containing tubulin and actin sequences. The remaining unhybridized mRNA was further fractionated by electrophoresis on methylmercury hydroxide agarose gels. Experiments involving cell-free translation of mRNA indicated that the major differences in the composition of .tau. proteins from newborn and developing brain are controlled at the mRNA level. The mRNA from newborn rat brain directed the synthesis of 5 .tau. proteins, 2 of which are specific for newborn brain, whereas the other 3 forms are characteristic of the developing brain. Thus, the appearance in newborn brain of mRNA species specific for 3 .tau.12 forms precedes the phase of the synthesis of these proteins in the cell. mRNA from 12-day brain directed the synthesis of 4 .tau. proteins specific for the developing brain, one of which is not synthesized by mRNA from newborn brain. None of the newborn .tau.0 forms were synthesized with mRNA isolated from 12-day brain.