Formation and stability of cytoplasmic mRNAs during myoblast differentiation: pulse-chase and density labeling analyses.
Formation and stability of cytoplasmic mRNAs during myoblast differentiation: pulse-chase and density labeling analyses.
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成肌细胞分化过程中细胞质 mRNA 的形成和稳定性:脉冲追踪和密度标记分析。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(80)90505-9
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Charles P. Emerson
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作者:
Lewis Bowman;Charles P. Emerson
Stabilities and rates of formation of cytoplasmic mRNAs have been measured quantitatively in cultures of embryonic quail breast myoblasts undergoing differentiation to form muscle fibers. Uridine pulse-chase studies show that dividing myoblasts and differentiated fibers form both short- and long-lived mRNAs. Short-lived mRNAs in myoblasts and fibers have similar half-lives of 2–4 hr, however, long-lived mRNAs have a half-life of 60–100 hr in myoblasts and only 20 hr in fibers. When myoblasts fuse, the formation of long-lived cytoplasmic mRNAs increases at least twofold, and this increased formation together with the cessation of myoblast cell division at fusion is sufficient to account for the four- to fivefold accumulation of long-lived mRNA observed in fibers. These long-lived mRNAs were identified by density labeling cultures with15N,13C-nucleotides, chasing with light nucleosides, and then translating the density labeled mRNAs in wheat germ extracts. These experiments show that the contractile protein mRNAs, as well as 60–70 other muscle mRNAs are actively synthesized by muscle fibers and that all of the specific mRNAs detected have half-lives clustering around 20 hr.