TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN MESSENGER-RNA PRODUCTION DURING LYMPHOCYTE-B DEVELOPMENT
TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN MESSENGER-RNA PRODUCTION DURING LYMPHOCYTE-B DEVELOPMENT
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DOI:
10.1093/nar/14.13.5431
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发表时间:
1986-07-11
影响因子:
14.9
通讯作者:
PERRY, RP
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作者:
KELLEY, DE;PERRY, RP
A variety of cell lines representing different saturation stages of the B lymphocyte were used to analyse developmental changes in the transcriptional pattern through the μ-δ locus and the relationship between μ mRNA accumulation and transcriptional activity. As anticipated from earlier studies, we observed that RNA polymerase loading in the region between the μmcleavage/poly A addition site and the δ1 exon is markedly decreased in IgM secreting cells compared to cells bearing surface IgM or surface IgM and IgD. In several IgM secreting hybridomas, transcriptional termination mainly occurred downstream of the first exon. Thus, the predominance of μs-terminated transcripts in these cells would appear to be principally determined by RNA processing events, most likely by more efficient cleavage at the μspoly A site and/or less efficient splicing of the Cμ and μmexons. In two plasmacytoma lines, polymerase unloading between the μsand μmsites also contributed significantly to the high μsmRNA phenotype. Our results further indicate that posttranscriptional regulation is largely responsible for the greatly increased accumulation of μ mRNA in the IgM secretors. Interestingly, the sterile-μ RNA components do not seem to be subject to this posttranscriptional regulation.