TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular cloning of cDNA for the Bβ subunit of Xenopus fibrinogen, the product of a coordinately-regulated gene family
AU - Bhattacharya, Anuradha
AU - Shepard, Allan R.
AU - Moser, David R.
AU - Roberts, Lewis R.
AU - Holland, LenéJ J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01-HL39095) and the American Heart Association (No. 86-923), and by the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center, University of Iowa College of Medicine (NIH DK25295). We are very grateful to Dr. Gerald Crabtree for making available the rat fibrinogen Bfl cDNA clone, to Dr. Robert Tompkins for providing the homozygous diploid Xenopus frog, to Chanatip Suksang for amplification of the phage cDNA library, to Amy Wall for expert technical assistance, and to the DNA Core of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center, University of Iowa for synthesis of oligonucleotides.
PY - 1991/2
Y1 - 1991/2
N2 - Fibrinogen, the principal blood-clotting protein, is made up of three different subunits synthesized in the liver. In vitro administration of glucocorticoids to liver cells from the frog Xenopus laevis causes a dramatic increase in fibrinogen synthesis. Investigations of molecular mechanisms underlying this hormonal stimulation at the mRNA level require cDNA clones complementary to the mRNAs coding for the three fibrinogen subunits, called Aα, Bβ, andγ. We describe here the isolation and characterization of cDNA clones for the Bβ subunit of Xenopus fibrinogen. cDNA libraries in both plasmid (pBR322) and phage (λgt10) cloning vectors were constructed from frog liver mRNA and screened with a rat Bβ cDNA. Clones thus isolated hybridized to two Xenopus liver mRNAs 2500 and 1800 bases long, the previously-determined sizes for Bβ mRNAs. The identity of the plasmid clone Bβ-27 was confirmed by hybridization-selection of complementary mRNA which translated in vitro into the Bβ polypeptide, as determined by size and susceptibility to thrombin cleavage. λ/Bβ10, a clone representing nearly all of the 2500-base Bβ mRNA, was isolated from the phage cDNA library. The 3'-end of this clone includes a polyadenylation signal about 20 residues upstream of a stretch of 34 adenosine residues, which probably represents the 3'-poly(A) tail of the messenger RNA. λ/Bβ10 lacks only 20 nucleotides of full-length Bβ mRNA at the 5'-end and there is one major start site of transcription. The 2500-base Bβ mRNA has a 700-base extension at the 3'-end that is not present in the 1800-base mRNA. The Xenopus laevis genome contains two or three genes for the Bβ fibrinogen subunit. Using the cDNA clone as a probe, Bβ mRNA was shown to be induced at least 20-fold by glucocorticoid treatment of purified parenchymal cells of Xenopus liver maintained in primary culture.
AB - Fibrinogen, the principal blood-clotting protein, is made up of three different subunits synthesized in the liver. In vitro administration of glucocorticoids to liver cells from the frog Xenopus laevis causes a dramatic increase in fibrinogen synthesis. Investigations of molecular mechanisms underlying this hormonal stimulation at the mRNA level require cDNA clones complementary to the mRNAs coding for the three fibrinogen subunits, called Aα, Bβ, andγ. We describe here the isolation and characterization of cDNA clones for the Bβ subunit of Xenopus fibrinogen. cDNA libraries in both plasmid (pBR322) and phage (λgt10) cloning vectors were constructed from frog liver mRNA and screened with a rat Bβ cDNA. Clones thus isolated hybridized to two Xenopus liver mRNAs 2500 and 1800 bases long, the previously-determined sizes for Bβ mRNAs. The identity of the plasmid clone Bβ-27 was confirmed by hybridization-selection of complementary mRNA which translated in vitro into the Bβ polypeptide, as determined by size and susceptibility to thrombin cleavage. λ/Bβ10, a clone representing nearly all of the 2500-base Bβ mRNA, was isolated from the phage cDNA library. The 3'-end of this clone includes a polyadenylation signal about 20 residues upstream of a stretch of 34 adenosine residues, which probably represents the 3'-poly(A) tail of the messenger RNA. λ/Bβ10 lacks only 20 nucleotides of full-length Bβ mRNA at the 5'-end and there is one major start site of transcription. The 2500-base Bβ mRNA has a 700-base extension at the 3'-end that is not present in the 1800-base mRNA. The Xenopus laevis genome contains two or three genes for the Bβ fibrinogen subunit. Using the cDNA clone as a probe, Bβ mRNA was shown to be induced at least 20-fold by glucocorticoid treatment of purified parenchymal cells of Xenopus liver maintained in primary culture.
KW - Acute-phase response
KW - Glucocorticoid
KW - Liver
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U2 - 10.1016/0303-7207(91)90225-H
DO - 10.1016/0303-7207(91)90225-H
M3 - Article
C2 - 2050271
AN - SCOPUS:0026071115
SN - 0303-7207
VL - 75
SP - 111
EP - 121
JO - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
JF - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
IS - 2
ER -