Localization of mRNA for pea legumin:In situ hybridization using a biotinylated cDNA probe

PROTOPLASMA ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Harris ◽  
R. R. D. Croy
1991 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1243-1247 ◽  
Author(s):  
C D Kelly ◽  
N D Carter ◽  
P de Boer ◽  
S Jeffery ◽  
A F Moorman ◽  
...  

We carried out a variety of in situ methods of hybridization on rat liver and rat skeletal muscle using 35S-labeled or biotin-labeled rat carbonic anhydrase III (CAIII) cDNA clone. The methods were compared and evaluated. Use of the biotin system produced defined but nonspecific results which were shown not to be due to the biotinylated cDNA probe binding to the mRNA in the muscle sections. This artifact was shown to persist despite various attempts to eliminate it. Alternatively, using 35S-labeled cDNA gave reproducible results which were shown to be consistent with probe binding specifically to mRNA in the muscle section.


1985 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Beaty ◽  
L.J. Chandler ◽  
D.H.L. Bishop ◽  
D.C. Ward

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron B. Margolin ◽  
Charles P. Gerba ◽  
Kenneth J. Richardson ◽  
Jaime E. Naranjo

Nucleic acid hybridization provides a rapid non-cell culture method for the detection of enteric viruses in water. The purpose of this work was to compare the detection of naturally occurring enteroviruses by cell culture with their detection by a poliovirus gene probe in various types of water samples. Samples of activated sludge effluent, tertiary treated wastewater (activated sludge, filtration and passage through reverse osmosis), ground water, surface water and tidal river water were processed through 1 MDS Virozorb filters to concentrate any naturally occurring virus. Viruses were eluted from the filters with pH 9.5 beef extract and reduced in volume by flocculation to 20-30 ml. These concentrates were then assayed in the BGM cell line by the cytopathogenic effects (CPE) method and by a poliovirus cDNA probe (base pairs 115-7440) labeled with 32P. A total of 233 samples were assayed in this manner. In slightly more than 93% of the samples gene probe and cell culture yielded the same results. Of these samples 36 were positive by gene probe and 28 by cell culture assay. Positive samples for gene probe were confirmed by treatment with NaOH or RNAse and then reprobed. Samples demonstrating CPE upon primary passage were confirmed positive by subsequent passage of cell lysate on a new monolayer of BGM cells. Ten samples were positive by gene probe and negative by cell culture, and 4 samples were negative by gene probe and positive by cell culture.


1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Warembourg ◽  
O Tranchant ◽  
C Perret ◽  
C Desplan ◽  
M Thomasset

We have previously described the molecular cloning of a cDNA fragment synthesized from rat duodenal mRNA coding for a 9000-dalton vitamin D-induced calcium-binding protein (9-kDa CaBP) (3). We now report the use of this cloned cDNA to study the cytological distribution of 9-kDa CaBP mRNA in rat duodenum by in situ hybridization. Tissue sections, fixed in ethanol:acetic acid, were hybridized to the 3H-cDNA probe and processed for autoradiography. The specificity of the CaBP mRNA-DNA hybrid formation was checked using 3H-labeled plasmid pBR322 DNA as a control probe. 9k-Da CaBP mRNA, visualized by silver grains, was found only in the absorptive epithelial cells, and the concentration was greater in the cells at the villous tips than in those of the crypts. The 9k-Da CaBP mRNA was observed mainly in the cytoplasm of the columnar cells and less frequently in the nucleus. Labeling was not seen in the brush border and goblet cells. The submucosa, with Brunner's glands and muscularis, also showed no specific 9-kDa CaBP mRNA concentration. This demonstration of 9-kDa CaBP gene activity in the columnar cells of the rat duodenum illustrates the usefulness of in situ hybridization for characterization of specific cells involved in the expression of 1,25(OH)2 D3 activity.


1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 849-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
C B Shoemaker ◽  
L D Mitsock

The gene for murine erythropoietin (EPO) was isolated from a mouse genomic library with a human EPO cDNA probe. Nucleotide sequence analysis permitted the identification of the murine EPO coding sequence and the prediction of the encoded amino acid sequence based on sequence conservation between the mouse and human EPO genes. Both the coding DNA and the amino acid sequences were 80% conserved between the two species. Transformation of COS-1 cells with a mammalian cell expression vector containing the murine EPO coding region resulted in secretion of murine EPO with biological activity on both murine and human erythroid progenitor cells. The transcription start site for the murine EPO gene in kidneys was determined. This permitted tentative identification of the transcription control region. The region included 140 base pairs upstream of the cap site which was over 90% conserved between the murine and human genes. Surprisingly, the first intron and much of the 5'- and 3'-untranslated sequences were also substantially conserved between the genes of the two species.


Gene ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Ceci ◽  
Robert Lawther ◽  
Gregg Duester ◽  
G.Wesley Hatfield ◽  
Moyra Smith ◽  
...  

Development ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-647
Author(s):  
R.P. Tucker ◽  
J. Spring ◽  
S. Baumgartner ◽  
D. Martin ◽  
C. Hagios ◽  
...  

Previous studies have shown that several forms of the glycoprotein tenascin are present in the embryonic extracellular matrix. These forms are the result of alternative splicing, which generates tenascin variants with different numbers of fibronectin type III repeats. We have used degenerate primers and PCR to isolate a novel tenascin exon from an avian genomic library. Genomic clones contained a sequence encoding a fibronectin type III repeat that corresponds to repeat ‘C’ from the variable domain of human tenascin. To demonstrate that tenascin containing repeat ‘C’ is actually synthesized by avian cells, a monospecific antiserum was raised against a repeat ‘C’ fusion protein. This antiserum recognized a novel high-molecular-weight variant on immunoblots of tenascin isolated from chicken embryo fibroblast-conditioned medium, and stained tendons on frozen sections of chicken embryos. A cDNA probe specific for mRNA encoding repeat ‘C’ was used for in situ hybridization. This probe hybridized in a subset of the embryonic tissues labelled with a universal tenascin probe, including tendons, ligaments and mesenchyme at sites of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. Finally, we provide evidence that additional fibronectin type III repeats, one corresponding to a recently discovered human repeat as well as one entirely novel sequence, also exists in chicken tenascin mRNA. These data indicate that tenascin is present in the embryonic matrix in a multitude of forms and that these forms have distinctive distributions that may reflect more than one function for tenascin in development.


1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-409
Author(s):  
S Longacre ◽  
U Hibner ◽  
A Raibaud ◽  
H Eisen ◽  
T Baltz ◽  
...  

African trypanosomes resist the immune response of their mammalian hosts by varying the surface glycoprotein which constitutes their antigenic identity. The molecular mechanism of this antigenic variation involves the successive activation of a series of genes which code for different variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs). We have studied the expression of two VSG genes (those of VSG-1 and VSG-28) in Trypanosoma equiperdum, and we report the following findings. (i) The expression of both VSG genes is associated with the duplication and transposition of corresponding basic copy genes. (ii) The duplicated transposed copy appears to be the expressed copy. (iii) Although there are multiple genes which cross-hybridize with the VSG-1 cDNA probe, only one of these appears to be used as a template for the expression-linked copy in four independent BoTat-1 clones. (iv) Analysis of the genomic environments of the expressed VSG-1 genes from each of four independently derived BoTat-1 trypanosome clones revealed that there are at least three different sites into which the expression-linked copy can be inserted.


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