Isolation and preliminary characterization of the Chinese hamster thymidine kinase gene.
AUTOR(ES)
Lewis, J A
RESUMO
The Chinese hamster thymidine kinase (TK) gene has been isolated from a recombinant phage library constructed with genomic DNA from mouse Ltk- cells transformed to Tk+ by transfection with Chinese hamster genomic DNA. The phage library was screened by the Benton-Davis plaque hybridization technique, using as probes, subclones of recombinant phage that were isolated from mouse Ltk+ transformants by the tRNA suppressor rescue method. The Chinese hamster TK gene is contained within 13.2 kilobases of genomic DNA in the isolate designated lambda 34S4. This gene, defined by restriction enzyme sensitivity experiments, homology studies with the chicken TK gene, and mRNA blotting experiments, may extend over 8.5 kilobases. Subclones of the lambda 34S4 isolate used as hybridization probes identified a 1,400-nucleotide polyadenylated RNA as the hamster TK mRNA. The abundance of this mRNA varies dramatically in Chinese hamster cells cultured under various growth conditions, providing direct evidence that the growth dependence of TK activity may be regulated in an important way at the level of cytoplasmic TK mRNA.
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