Complementary DNA cloning and sequencing of rat ovarian basic fibroblast growth factor and tissue distribution study of its mRNA.
Complementary DNA cloning and sequencing of rat ovarian basic fibroblast growth factor and tissue distribution study of its mRNA.
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大鼠卵巢碱性成纤维细胞生长因子的互补DNA克隆和测序及其mRNA的组织分布研究。
DOI:
10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80041-x
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Ling,N
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作者:
Shimasaki,S;Emoto,N;Koba,A;Mercado,M;Shibata,F;Cooksey,K;Baird,A;Ling,N
Three cDNA clones encoding rat basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) were isolated from 106independent clones prepared from a pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG)-stimulated rat ovarian cDNA library. One of the cDNA clones contained the entire coding sequence for basic FGF. The other two possessed the sequence coding the carboxy terminal 61 amino acids of rat basic FGF, the putative upstream intron sequence, and a 3′-noncoding region. The cDNAs encoding rat basic FGF predict a molecule consisting of 154 amino acid residues, which is one amino acid shorter than the human and bovine basic FGF. Otherwise, there are only 5 conservative amino acid substitutions between the rat and the human/bovine sequences.Poly A+RNA from brain cortex and hypothalamus show a single 6.0 kb band that hybridizes to the cloned cDNA probe by Northern analyses. The observation that basic FGF mRNA is below the limits of detection in adrenal, spleen, heart, lung, kidney, liver, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, testis, and ovary support the notion that the high levels of the protein found in these tissues is due to storage of the mitogen in the extracellular matrix and not continuous gene expression. The significance of the abundance of mRNA in tissues which are not undergoing either active angiogenesis or cell proliferation (hypothalamus and brain cortex) is unclear but emphasizes the potential neuronotrophic function of basic FGF.