Brake Enzyme Mapping

For the restriction enzyme mapping experiments, the reactions were conducted with unlabeled RNA.

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Molecular Approaches to the Detection of Germinal Mutations in Mammalian Organisms, Including Human

H.W. MOHRENWEISER , Due east.W. BRANSCOMB , in New Trends in Genetic Risk Cess, 1989

Restriction enzyme mopping techniques

Another approach is based on the restriction enzyme mapping techniques which have been routinely employed in studies of gene structure and have been useful in studies of both normal and disease-associated genetic variation. Variation associated with both single-base of operations substitutions and insertions/deletions/rearrangements are detectable. Although restriction enzyme mapping will detect single-base substitutions, it is a relatively inefficient strategy for screening for base substitution mutations as but 12 bases are screened for the loss of a cutting site and six screened for the gain of a cut site (for an enzyme with a half-dozen-base recognition site), in each fragment which, on average, volition be approximately 4 kb in length. Mohrenweiser and Larsen (1986) take proposed a slight reorientation of the restriction mapping approach in social club to focus on the detection of insertion/deletion/rearrangement events in the genome by employing a express number of restriction enzymes and an extensive battery of probes. They accept suggested that 0.1% of the genome – including introns, exons, flanking regions, pseudogenes, etc. – could be screened with 100 DNA probes. Single-base substitutions at the recognition sites would still be detected, but with merely two or three brake enzymes being employed to digest the DNA the number of bases screened for substitutions in each fragment is very small. This approach could also be used with pulsed-field or field-inversion electrophoretic techniques, which effectively carve up DNA molecules of sizes in the range of 50–1000 kb rather than the two–25 kb size of the more standard electrophoretic techniques (Smith et al., 1987; Smith and Cantor, 1987). Manifestly, the study of larger fragments reduces the sensitivity for detecting small-scale deletions while increasing the fraction of the genome examined to probably more ii–iii% if 100 DNA probes were to be used. Given the assumption that much of the radiation-induced damage involves deletions or rearrangement of genetic material (Russell, 1983), this arroyo could exist near useful in studies of radiations-exposed populations. This technique has significant potential for automation, especially in the area of development of nonradioactive probes and simultaneous analysis of a Deoxyribonucleic acid sample with several probes. The terminal two approaches, RNase digestion and restriction enzyme mapping, have an firsthand reward over the substractive hybridization method in that the fundamentals of the technical development have been completed. However, neither of these techniques would currently be cost-constructive in screening a population and have limitations in the spectra of events detected and/or the database obtained in each proband which are important in an exposed population. In dissimilarity, the substractive hybridization should be ideal for mutation screening, if the proposed approach is valid and the techniques tin can exist developed.

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THE OVOMUCOID GENE ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE AND REGULATION

Bert W. O'Malley , ... Anthony R. Means , in From Gene to Poly peptide: Information Transfer in Normal and Aberrant Cells, 1979

ELECTRONMICROSCOPIC MAPPING OF THE OVOMUCOID GENE

Although intervening sequences within structural genes tin be detected by restriction enzyme mapping, a complete map requires other methods independent of the hazard occurance of brake sites. Short structural factor regions may be missed due to the relative instability of the hybrids formed during hybridization, resulting in weak signals upon Southern filter analysis. In an effort to more fully characterize the structure of the ovomucoid cistron, hybrid molecules formed betwixt ovomucoid mRNA and the cloned fifteen Kb ovomucoid Deoxyribonucleic acid were examined by electronmicroscopy.

Deoxyribonucleic acid was thermally denatured and incubated with ovomucoid mRNA under weather that permit merely RNA/DNA hybridization but not DNA/Deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation. Thus, homologous regions betwixt the mRNA and the cloned Dna would appear as double-stranded regions. DNA sequences non-homologous with the mRNA would appear equally unmarried-stranded loops. Such a hybrid molecule formed between ovomucoid mRNA and the cloned OM15 DNA is shown in Figure 18. A total of 6 intervening Deoxyribonucleic acid loops of various sizes are nowadays in this molecule. All 6 loops were present in 10 private hybrid molecules examined. The relative positioning of these loops was established in a histogram equally shown in Figure 19. All of the loop structures occurred at one Dna terminus and occupied about one/3 of the total length of the OM15 Dna molecule. Ii additional brusk intervening sequences, C and F, were detected in these studies, simply not by restriction mapping analysis. Although brake mapping is more than quantitative in that fragment sizes and position tin exist correlated with known distances in the structural sequence, in the absence of favorably placed restriction sites some intervening sequences may exist missed. Electronmicroscopy permits more than straight analysis of intervening sequences. Hence, EM analysis has detected two boosted intervening sequences, yet the overall structure is in good qualitative agreement with the express brake map. Thus, at that place are at to the lowest degree vi intervening sequences in the ovomucoid gene.

FIGURE 18. Electronmicrograph and line drawing of a hybrid molecule formed betwixt the ovomucoid gene (OM15) and ovomucoid mRNA. Hybridization was carried out using 10 μg/ml of OM15 Deoxyribonucleic acid and 20 μg/ml of ovomucoid mRNA in seventy% deionized formamide containing 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.vi, 10 mM Na2EDTA and 150 mM NaCl. The mixture was heated at 80°C for v minutes to denature the DNA and hybridization was carried out at 43°C for 2 hrs. The samples were immediately prepared for electronmicroscopy as follows. The hybridization mixture containing 0.1 to 0.5 μg of nucleic acids was diluted into 100 μl of a solution containing 70% formamide, 0.1 M Tris-HCl, pH 8.4 0.01 Yard Na2EDTA and 100 μg/ml of cytochrome C. The mixture was spread onto a hypophase of distilled water. Samples were collected on collodion coated-300 mesh copper grids, stained with uranyl acetate, rotary shadowed with platinum-palladium and examined at 80Kv on a Joel 100 C electron microscope. —, OM15;— mRNAom.

FIGURE 19. Histogram of ten individual hybrid molecules formed betwixt OM15 DNA and ovomucoid mRNA under weather condition described in legend of Figure 18. The molecules were measured using a map mensurate, and the sizes and positions of the loops were plotted on a linear calibration of 0 to i, with 1.0 representing 15 Kb of Dna, Ovomucoid structural sequences are represented by □, intervening sequences are represented by ▪, and flanking Deoxyribonucleic acid sequences are represented by —.

This is, necessarily, a minimum number. Quite recently, recent indications that at that place might be a seventh intervening sequence in the ovomucoid gene were obtained (47). In an mRNA/OM15 Deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization experiment performed every bit in Figure 18, several molecules with 7 loops were observed. It appears that the very big intervening sequence, the one closest to the 5′-end of the gene in Figure eighteen, might actually consist of 2 large intervening sequences with a very brusque sequence of structural Dna betwixt them. This structural sequence is presumably then short that information technology does not form a stable hybrid with the homologous mRNA sequence when surrounded by two large not-homologous regions. Thus, if no boosted intervening sequence is observed in the three′ not-coding region, a situation not previously observed in the natural genes mapped so far (7–8, 18, 48–57), the ovomucoid factor contains 7 intervening sequences. Since the ovomucoid structural gene is only virtually 750 nucleotides pairs in length, the frequency of occurrence of these intervening sequences is striking. At 1 intervening sequence per 107 nucleotide pairs of structural gene sequence, information technology represents the highest frequency of intervening sequences observed among all eucaryotic genes examined to date.

We now have the unabridged ovomucoid gene, along with several kilobases of flanking DNA on the 5′- and 3′-ends, in one clone isolated from a library of oviduct Deoxyribonucleic acid fragments, supplied to us by Tom Maniatis and Richard Axel. Fragments of this clone are now being labeled and used for hybridization to in vivo nuclear RNA to farther delineate the extent of the factor that is transcribed. This clone is at present being sequenced, and in the near futurity comparative sequence information on the intron/exon boundaries should exist available. Finally, attempts to isolate and study the high molecular weight nuclear RNA precursors of ovomucoid mRNA are underway. We have already established (unpublished observations) that the poly(A) tail at the iii′-end of the mRNA is added very early, mayhap at the same time as transcription of the main cistron product itself, equally recently determined for Adeno 2 viral mRNAs (58). Further studies of those molecules should provide much information about the synthesis and processing of ovomucoid mRNA.

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Müllerian Inhibiting Substance: Gene Structure and Mechanism of Activity of a Fetal Regressor

PATRICIA K. DONAHOE , ... LESLI A. TAYLOR , in Proceedings of the 1986 Laurentian Hormone Conference, 1987

East ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE Homo MIS Factor

Using the bovine cDNA clone pS21, as a hybridization probe, a genomic clone, chmis33, was isolated from a human cosmid library, analyzed by restriction enzyme mapping, and completely sequenced. The structure of both the homo MIS gene and protein was elucidated by comparing the human and bovine DNA and protein sequences. The human MIS is encoded by 5 exons and is synthesized as a precursor of 560 amino acids containing a 25 amino acid leader. Afterwards cleavage of the leader, the mature protein has a molecular weight, deduced from the amino acid sequence, of 57,000 ( Fig. 4). Southern analysis has demonstrated that the MIS gene is unique in both the bovine and human genomes and that the human being MIS gene is not located on the Ten or Y chromosomes. The bovine and human MIS genes accept very loftier GC content, 72% in the exons, and 68% in the introns and flanking regions.

FIG. four. Schematic diagram showing the human MIS gene, RNA, and protein.

 (From Cate et al., 1986b, with permission from Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.) Copyright © 1986

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Structure, Expression, and Development of the Genes for the Human being Glycoprotein Hormones

JOHN C. FIDDES , KAREN TALMADGE , in Proceedings of the 1983 Laurentian Hormone Conference, 1984

Five There Are Seven β hCG Genes or Pseudogenes and One β hLH Gene

We used the β hCG cDNA every bit a hybridization probe to isolate a total of 16 phage recombinants from the two independent human genomic libraries described in the previous section. Restriction enzyme maps were adamant for each of these recombinant phage. The maps of these phage showed that they belong to three different groups of overlapping recombinants. These are shown in Fig.viii – Fig.9 Fig.10 (Boorstein et al.,1982; Talmadge et al.,1983). The first grouping, Fig. eight, contains four genes, numbers 1–4, the second group, Fig. 9, contains genes 5 and vi, while the third grouping, Fig. 10, contains genes 7 and 8.

FIG. eight. Organization of one grouping of cloned sequences that hybridize to the β hCG cDNA probe. The positions of the four genes (i–iii and 4, which is β hLH) are shown past heavy arrows pointing in the proposed direction of transcription. Each number above a line indicates the length of cloned man DNA in an contained recombinant phage isolate. The phages are grouped by whether they were isolated from a charon 4A or charon 28 library. B, BamHI; H, Hind3; One thousand, KpnI,Xb, XbaI; Xh, XhoI.Details are given in Boorstein et al. (1982) and Talmadge et al. (1983).

FIG. 9. System of a 2d group of cloned sequences that hybridize to the β hCG probe. The positions of the two genes (5 and half dozen) are shown past heavy arrows pointing in the proposed direction of transcription. Bg, BgThree; R, EcoRI.Other details are as in Fig. eight. Details are given in Boorstein et al. (1982) and Talmadge et al. (1983).

FIG. 10. Organisation of a third group of cloned sequences that hybridize to the β hCG probe. The positions of the two genes (7 and 8) are shown past heavy arrows pointing in the proposed management of transcription. Other details are as in Fig. 8. Details are given in Boorstein et al. (1982) and Talmadge et al. (1983).

These genes show an unusual structural organization. 4 of the genes, numbers 1 and 2 and numbers 5 and 6, form inverted pairs. In each case, transcription of both genes, if both members of the pair were agile, would be convergent. The 3′ ends of the two genes in each pair are separated by 2.25 kb. In dissimilarity, the other iv genes are arranged in two tandem pairs (3 and 4; 7 and 8) and are separated by 5.5 kb.

As mentioned in the previous department, it is possible that the β hCG fragment used as a hybridization probe is sufficiently homologous to β hLH to let cross-hybridization between the two sequences. Past a combination of DNA sequence analysis and restriction enzyme analysis, we have shown that this is the case. One of the eight isolated genes, gene number 4, Fig. 9, codes for β hLH (Talmadge et al.,1983). The other seven genes, numbers ane–three and five–eight, lawmaking for β hCG or are β hCG pseudogenes. Until all of the genes are sequenced completely, it is not possible to exclude that some of them contain features such as altered splice sites or in-frame termination codons which make then pseudogenes.

We have obtained a complete DNA sequence for ii of the β hCG genes, numbers v and half-dozen, and for the single β hLH gene (Talmadge et al.,1984). These sequences and their evolutionary implications are discussed subsequently. In social club to compare all of the eight genes, we isolated them equally separate subclones from the bacteriophage recombinants. A fractional restriction enzyme map was established for each of these genes to await for similarities and differences among them. This map is shown in Fig. 11. The details of the mapping strategies take been described in Talmadge et al. (1983). We would similar to emphasize however that this is not a complete restriction enzyme map for all the enzymes used just in several cases is a partial map designed for comparative purposes only.

FIG. 11. Comparative restriction enzyme analysis of the β hCG genes 1–3 and 5–viii and the single β hLH cistron. The following abbreviations are used for restriction enzymes: A, AvaI; Ap, ApaI; B, BglI; H2, HincII; H3, HindIII; Hf, HinfI; N, NaeI; Nc, NcoI; P, PvuII; Ps, PstI; S, SacI; St, StuI.The common HindThree site used to separate the 5′ and 3′ moieties of the genes is shown in assuming type. Sites shown in parentheses were identified by partial digestion. The restriction enzyme maps are lined up with the structure of a composite β hCG gene. The cross-hatched areas are untranslated regions, solid shaded areas are coding sequences, and unshaded areas are introns. The positions of the cap site (CAP) and initiation codon (ATG) are shown. The termination codon for β hCG (STOP) is shown on the blended map while the termination codon for β hLH, which is shorter than β hCG, is shown under the β hLH map. The numbers refer to the amino acids located at the splice junctions; negative numbers refer to the signal peptide. This is a partial restriction enzyme map. Details are given in Talmadge et al. (1983).

Comparing each of the genes past pairs we observe that none of the genes is identical. Restriction site differences can exist observed between any two genes. However, the overall distribution of sites is very like amongst all seven β hCG genes or pseudogenes and the single β hLH gene, showing that they accept the same basic structure. This comparative map as well shows, as will exist discussed in more detail later in the department on Dna sequences, that β hLH is very similar to β hCG. All of the sites present or absent in the β hLH cistron are also present or absent in at least one of the β hCG genes, with only 3 exceptions. The two Dna sequences therefore seem to be more closely related than the amino acid sequences might predict.

It is important to establish whether we have cloned the entire complement of β hCG and β hLH genes found in the human chromosome and to be able to distinguish β hCG from β hLH genes. To demonstrate this, human chromosome DNA was digested with several brake enzymes and analyzed past filter hybridization (Southern, 1975). Both a β hCG and β hLH fragment were used as hybridization probes because although the ii sequences are very similar, it should exist possible under stringent hybridization conditions to distinguish the two sets of sequences by the relative intensities of hybridization to each of the probes. An autoradiograph of such a hybridization is shown in Fig. 12 (Talmadge et al.,1983). Differences in the intensity of hybridization with the β hCG and β hLH probes tin conspicuously be seen. For case, with the combined Hind3–KpnI digest (Fig. 12b), a two.2 kb fragment hybridizes much more strongly to the β hLH than to the beta hCG probes.

FIG. 12. Autoradiograph of filter hybridizations of human placental DNA. Human DNA was digested with (a) HindIII (H), KpnI (K), or with (b) both enzymes, and hybridized to the β hCG- or β hLH-specific probes by the filter hybridization method using stringent hybridization and launder weather. CG, hybridization to the β hCG-specific probe; LH, hybridization to the β hLH-specific probe. Sizes of market place fragments (M) are given in kilobases and the positions of the fragments which hybridize more strongly with the β hLH probe are identified at the sides with arrows. Details are given in Talmadge et al. (1983).

In Table I nosotros have correlated the hybridizing fragments seen using both these probes with the restriction enzyme maps of the cloned genes. The results of this correlation demonstrate that the human being genome contains seven β hCG genes, or pseudogenes, and a single β hLH gene (Talmadge et al.,1983). No hybridizing fragments were found that practice non stand for to the cloned genes. We therefore believe that we have cloned the complete complement of β hCG and β hLH genes from the human being genome.

Table I. Correlation of Cloned β hCG and β hLH Cistron Fragments with Digests of Human being DNA a

Enzyme Fragment size (kb) Gene
HindThree–KpnI three.5 3
ii.6 ane,five
ii.two LH
ane.6 2, 6, vii, 8
HindIII seven.two iii
7.0 7
4.3 1, 2, 5, 6
ii.8 LH
KpnI x.0 half dozen
8.viii 3
8.vi (1/5/7)
seven.0 8
7.0 (1/5/7)
6.5 (1/five/vii)
6.0 LH
v.3 2
a
Identification of the HindIII, KpnI,and combined HindIii–KpnI fragments in the man genome containing β hCG or β hLH sequences. These information are a correlation of the results shown in Figs. 8–10 and 12. Genes which are at the ends of the bacteriophage λ recombinants and therefore cannot be assigned a particular fragment are in parentheses. No HindIII fragment has been assigned to β hCG 8. Details are given in Talmadge et al. (1983).

In that location is show to suggest that these viii genes are all linked (N. Vamvakopoulos and J. C. Fiddes, unpublished data). With the enzymes SalI and EcoRI,we observe a single, very large, hybridizing ring which is consistent with linkage of all the genes, although this is not conclusive as we cannot exclude the possibility that there are ii or more than big hybridizing fragments not resolved by electrophoresis.

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The Ovalbumin Gene: Organization, Structure, Transcription, and Regulation1

B.W. O'MALLEY , ... S.50.C. WOO , in Proceedings of the 1978 Laurentian Hormone Conference, 1979

D Structure OF THE NATURAL OVALBUMIN Gene

The cloned Eco RI fragments of the natural ovalbumin gene, designated OV2.iv, OV1.8, and OV9.5, respectively, were amplified and purified from their recombinant plasmids. They were then studied by hybridization with mature ovalbumin mRNA, electron microscopy, restriction enzyme mapping, and Deoxyribonucleic acid sequence analysis ( Dugaiczyk et al., 1978). Instead of 2 intervening sequence regions within the gene, we were surprised to find that the structural cistron sequence coding for ovalbumin was separated into viii sequentially oriented pieces by vii intervening sequences of varying lengths. A more precise brake map of the natural ovalbumin cistron could and then be constructed (fig. xiii). The distribution of the intervening sequences was nonrandom since all seven were constitute in the left-hand half (leader sequence and peptide coding region) of the factor (Dugaiczyk et al., 1978; Mandel et al., 1978). Direct sequence analysis indicated that the OV2.four does not encompass the 5′ terminus of the ovalbumin gene, only contains the ovalbumin sequence starting from nucleotide 46 of the structural gene. The cloning of the 5′ terminus of the ovalbumin gene too equally the 22 Kb BamHI fragment that should contain the entire ovalbumin gene is presently being carried out.

FIG. 13. A map of the organization of structural and intervening DNA sequences comprising the chick ovalbumin gene. Each of the noncontinuous structural segments is identified by 1 restriction endonuclease site. This astonishing arrangement was revealed simply afterward the natural ovalbumin gene was cloned and studied by restriction endonuclease mapping, electron microscopy, and limited sequence assay.

 From Dugaiczyk et al., (1978). Copyright © 1978

Also of major interest was the ascertainment that more 8000 bases of DNA are required to code for an 1859-base of operations mRNA (Roop et al., 1978). These studies generated a great deal of speculation concerning the possible mechanisms for transcription of this fascinating structure.

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Quantum Leaps in Biochemistry

Anil Mean solar day , Joanna Poulton , in Foundations of Modernistic Biochemistry, 1996

Detailed Characterization of Organelle Dna

The availability of restriction enzymes and recombinant DNA techniques in the 1970s and early 1980s revolutionized the study of extranuclear Dna. Restriction enzyme digests of purified mitochondrial and chloroplast Dna allowed precise characterization of their sizes and detailed cleavage maps to be produced. Circular restriction enzyme maps were produced in many instances including the 16.6 kb mitochondrial genome of humans (Brown and Vinograd, 1974) and 132 kb chloroplast genome of maize (Bedbrook and Bogorad, 1976). The mapping data also showed that organelle DNA was largely scarce in repeated Deoxyribonucleic acid sequences in agreement with much of the kinetic complexity data. However, maize chloroplast DNA is representative of a big number of country found chloroplast genomes in possessing two copies of a sequence (usually 20–30 kb) which are inversely oriented with respect to each other.

Cloning vectors of Escherichia coli allowed restriction fragments of chloroplast and mitochondrial Dna to be cloned and subjected to detailed assay. These data located the sites of the cytoplasmic mutations studied past Ephrussi and Sager. Analysis of mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleic acid from petite cytoplasmic mutants of yeast revealed gross rearrangements of mitochondrial DNA (Bernardi, 1979). A base change in the factor encoding the small-scale ribosomal subunit protein S12 of plastid DNA is responsible for streptomycin resistance in Sager'due south sr-ii mutant (Liu et al., 1989). The non-Mendelian inheritance of white sectors provided early evidence for the presence of extranuclear Deoxyribonucleic acid in plants. Mutations probably account for some but not all cases of green/white variegation in plants. Loss of functional plastid ribosomes through physical shock or deleterious nuclear loci will also produce permanently bleached plastids. If plastid ribosomes are lost, plastid-encoded ribosomal proteins cannot be translated to reconstitute functional ribosomes (Walbot and Coe, 1979). Ribosome-free plastids containing an intact genome can still dissever and are inherited in a non-Mendelian fashion.

The appearance of rapid DNA sequencing methods developed by Sanger12 and colleagues in Cambridge provided a central to unlock the coding content of organelle DNA. The complete sequences of the xvi,659 bp human being and 16,295 bp mouse mitochondrial DNAs were published in 1981 (Anderson et al., 1981; Bibb et al., 1981). An of import early outcome from sequence analysis of the mammalian and yeast mitochondrial genomes was the observation that the genetic code was not universal (Borst and Grivell, 1981). The stop codon UGA in the standard genetic lawmaking is read as tryptophan in mammalian and yeast mitochondria. The codons AGA and AGG represent arginine in the standard code merely represent a stop codon in mammalian mitochondria. Plant mitochondria appear to use the standard genetic code (Walbot, 1991). Plastid genomes are much larger than animate being mitochondrial genomes. The first plastid genomes, the 155,844 bp plastid genome from tobacco and 121,024 bp liverwort plastid genome, were non sequenced until 1986 (reviewed in Shimada and Sugiura, 1991).

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Beefcake and Physiology of the Factor

Andrew J. Wagner , ... Edward J. BenzJr., in Hematology (Seventh Edition), 2018

Primal Methods for Cistron Assay

The foundation for the molecular understanding of gene structure and expression is based on fundamental molecular biologic techniques that were developed in the 1970s and 1980s. These techniques allow for the reduction of the multibillion nucleotide genome into smaller fragments that are more easily analyzed. Several key methods are outlined here.

Restriction Endonucleases

Naturally occurring bacterial enzymes called restriction endonucleases catalyze sequence-specific hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds in the Deoxyribonucleic acid backbone. For example, EcoRI, a restriction endonuclease isolated from Escherichia coli, cleaves Deoxyribonucleic acid but at the sequence 5′- GAATTC-three′. Thus, each DNA sample will be reproducibly reduced to an array of fragments whose size ranges depend on the distribution with which that sequence exists within the Deoxyribonucleic acid. A specific six-nucleotide sequence would be statistically expected to appear one time every 46 (or 4096) nucleotides, simply in reality, the distance between specific sequences varies greatly. Using combinations of restriction endonucleases, Dna several hundred meg base pairs in length can be reproducibly reduced to fragments ranging from a few dozen to tens of thousands of base pairs long. These smaller products of enzymatic digestion are much more manageable experimentally. Genetic "fingerprinting," or restriction enzyme maps of genomes, tin can exist constructed by analyzing the Dna fragments resulting from digestion. Many enzymes cleave DNA so every bit to leave curt, single-stranded overhanging regions that can be enzymatically linked to other like fragments, generating artificially recombined, or recombinant, Dna molecules. These ligated cistron fragments can then be inserted into leaner to produce more copies of the recombinant molecules or to express the cloned genes. While yet useful in a number of contexts, restriction enzyme analysis is increasingly existence supplanted by direct DNA sequence analysis.

Deoxyribonucleic acid, RNA, and Protein Blotting

In that location are many ways that a cloned DNA sequence can be exploited to characterize the behavior of normal or pathologic genes. Blotting methods deserve special mention because of their widespread use in clinical and experimental hematology. A cloned DNA fragment tin can be easily purified and tagged with a radioactive or nonradioactive label. The fragment provides a pure and highly specific molecular hybridization probe for the detection of complementary Dna (cDNA) or RNA molecules in any specimen of Deoxyribonucleic acid or RNA. One prepare of assays that has proved particularly useful involves Southern blotting, named after Dr. E. Southern, who invented the method (Fig. 1.8). Southern blotting allows detection of a specific gene, or region in or near a gene, in a Dna training. The Dna is isolated and digested with one or more restriction endonucleases, and the resulting fragments are denatured and separated according to their molecular size by electrophoresis through agarose gels. By means of capillary action in a high-salt buffer, the DNA fragments are passively transferred to a nitrocellulose or nylon membrane. Single-stranded DNA and RNA molecules attach noncovalently only tightly to the membrane. In this fashion, the membrane becomes a replica, or blot, of the gel. After the blotting process is consummate, the membrane is incubated in a hybridization buffer containing the radioactively labeled probe. The probe hybridizes simply to the cistron of interest and renders radioactive only one or a few bands containing complementary sequences. After appropriate washing and drying, the bands tin exist visualized past autoradiography.

Digestion of a DNA preparation with several different restriction enzymes allows a restriction endonuclease map of a gene in the human genome to be constructed. Southern blotting has thus become a standard way of characterizing the configuration of genes in the genome.

Northern blotting represents an analogous blotting procedure used to detect RNA. RNA cannot be digested with restriction enzymes (which cut only Deoxyribonucleic acid); rather, the intact RNA molecules tin can exist separated according to molecular size past electrophoresis through the gel (mRNAs are 0.5 to 12 kilobases in length), transferred onto membranes, and probed with a Deoxyribonucleic acid probe. In this mode, the presence, absence, molecular size, and number of individual species of a particular mRNA species can be detected.

Western blotting is a similar method that tin can be used to examine protein expression. Cellular lysates (or another source of proteins) can exist electrophoresed through a polyacrylamide gel so every bit to separate proteins on the basis of their apparent molecular sizes. The resolved proteins tin then be electrically transferred to nitrocellulose membranes and probed with specific antibodies directed against the protein of interest. Every bit with RNA analysis, the relative expression levels and molecular sizes of proteins can be assessed with this method.

Polymerase Chain Reaction

The development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was a major quantum that has revolutionized the utility of a Deoxyribonucleic acid-based strategy for diagnosis and handling. It permits the detection, synthesis, and isolation of specific genes and allows differentiation of alleles of a cistron differing by as trivial every bit i base of operations. It does non crave sophisticated equipment or unusual technical skills. A clinical specimen consisting of but minute amounts of tissue will suffice; in most circumstances, no special training of the tissue is necessary. PCR thus makes recombinant Dna techniques accessible to clinical laboratories. This single advance has produced a quantum increment in the use of direct cistron analysis for diagnosis of human diseases. Indeed, PCR assay combined with direct Deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing technologies have largely supplanted restriction enzyme mapping and blotting strategies for many research and diagnostic applications.

The PCR is based on the prerequisites for copying an existing DNA strand by DNA polymerase: an existing denatured strand of Deoxyribonucleic acid to exist used equally the template and a primer. Primers are short oligonucleotides, 12 to 100 bases in length, having a base sequence complementary to the desired region of the existing Deoxyribonucleic acid strand. The enzyme requires the primer to "know" where to begin copying. If the base sequence of the DNA of the gene under study is known, two synthetic oligonucleotides complementary to sequences flanking the region of interest can be prepared. If these are the simply oligonucleotides present in the reaction mixture, then the Dna polymerase tin can only copy daughter strands of DNA downstream from those oligonucleotides. Call back that DNA is double stranded, that the strands are held together by the rules of Watson–Crick base pairing, and that they are aligned in antiparallel fashion. This implies that the effect of incorporation of both oligonucleotides into the reaction mix will exist to synthesize two girl strands of Dna, ane originating upstream of the factor and the other originating downstream. The net effect is synthesis of only the DNA between the two primers, thus doubling simply the DNA containing the region of interest. If the DNA is now heat denatured, allowing hybridization of the girl strands to the primers, and the polymerization is repeated, then the region of DNA through the cistron of involvement is doubled over again. Thus, two cycles of denaturation, annealing, and elongation result in a selective quadrupling of the gene of interest. The wheel can be repeated thirty–50 times, resulting in a selective and geometric distension of the sequence of involvement to the order of twothirty to 250 times. The result is a millionfold or higher selective amplification of the factor of interest, yielding microgram quantities of that Dna sequence.

PCR accomplished practical utility when DNA polymerases from thermophilic leaner were discovered; when synthetic oligonucleotides of whatever desired sequence could be produced efficiently, reproducibly, and cheaply by automated instrumentation; and when DNA thermocycling machines were developed. Thermophilic bacteria live in hot springs and other exceedingly warm environments, and their Dna polymerases can tolerate 100°C (212°F) incubations without substantial loss of action. The reward of these thermostable polymerases is that they retain action in a reaction mix that is repeatedly heated to the high temperature needed to denature the DNA strands into the single-stranded grade. Microprocessor-driven Deoxyribonucleic acid thermocycler machines can be programmed to increase temperatures to 95°C to 100°C (203°F to 212°F) (denaturation), to absurd the mix to 50°C (101°F) rapidly (a temperature that favors oligonucleotide annealing), and so to heighten the temperature to seventy°C to 75°C (141.four°F to 151.5°F) (the temperature for optimal action of the thermophilic DNA polymerases). In a reaction containing the test specimen, the thermophilic polymerase, the primers, and the chemic components (e.grand., nucleotide subunits), the thermocycler can carry many cycles of denaturation, annealing, and polymerization in a completely automated manner. The gene of involvement can thus be amplified more than than a millionfold in a matter of a few hours. The DNA product is readily identified and isolated past routine agarose gel electrophoresis. The DNA can and so be analyzed by restriction endonuclease, digestion, hybridization to specific probes, sequencing, farther amplification by cloning, and then along.

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Enhancement of Rumen Microbial Detoxification by Gene Transfer

Keith Gregg , Helen Sharpe , in Physiological Aspects of Digestion and Metabolism in Ruminants, 1991

B. Characterization of the Halidohydrolase Gene and Enzyme

Professor Kawasaki (University of Osaka) kindly provided a civilization of Moraxella containing the plasmid pUO1, to allow the states to examine the enzyme's suitability for our purpose. Preliminary tests of dehalogenation activeness in bacterial cultures showed that the enzyme produced by Moraxella species gave considerably college activity than could exist detected in whatsoever of the Bacillus or Pseudomonas species that were isolated locally. Further work was, therefore, concentrated on the gene and its production from Moraxella.

To make the dehalogenase gene simpler to handle, a 3.6 kb fragment of Deoxyribonucleic acid from the Moraxella plasmid was excised, using the restriction endonuclease EcoRI, and inserted into the Due east. coli plasmid pUC19. From previous work, the 3.six kb fragment was known to contain the halidohydrolase gene (Kawasaki et al. 1984) and we have shown the enzyme to be expressed in E. coli from the pTZ plasmid. Using this clone (pHS1) it was possible to obtain a more than detailed restriction map of the gene fragment.

The restriction enzyme map of the cloned, three.vi kb DNA fragment is shown in Fig. one. Work by Professor Kawasaki's research group indicated that the halidohydrolase factor was located close to the SalI site in the middle of the EcoRI fragment, with the gene promoter being separated from the structural gene by cleavage at this betoken. Current work includes DNA sequencing of the gene and flanking DNA to ostend this.

Effigy 1. Restriction map of the 3.6 kb EcoRI fragment from plasmid pUO1, cloned into pUC19. MCS = multiple cloning site of pUC19; E = EcoRI; Air-conditioning = AccI; Av = AvaI; S = SalI. Thick line represents plasmid vector DNA; thin line represents Moraxella DNA insert.

Studies with cell-complimentary extracts have shown that the cloned gene produces enzyme with the aforementioned properties as the poly peptide synthesized naturally past Moraxella. The response of dehalogenase activity to a range of pH atmospheric condition is shown in Fig. ii. Although maximal activity was observed around pH 8, significant activity is detectable at the pH range usually maintained in the rumen of pasture-fed cattle (6.five–vii.0). The preference of the enzyme for pH values to a higher place 7.0 is probably a effect of the use of hydroxide ions in the replacement of fluorine (Goldman and Milne 1966).

Figure 2. Response of dehalogenase activity to a range of pH weather.

Temperature response is shown in Fig. 3. Maximal activity was observed at 60°C, with approximately 70% of that activity retained at normal rumen temperature (39°C).

Effigy iii. Relative activity of the dehalogenase enzyme at unlike temperatures.

Calculations have been fabricated on the levels of dehalogenase activity produced from the cloned gene, enzyme efficiency under rumen conditions, and the quantity of fluoroacetate constituting a lethal dose. The results indicate that equivalent enzyme production from a single strain of modified rumen bacterium will allow sufficient detoxification for protection of the host creature, if the bacterium can exist maintained inside the rumen at a level equal to i% of the total bacterial population.

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STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION AND EXPRESSION OF OVALBUMIN AND RELATED Craven GENES

P. Chambon , ... F. Perrin , in From Gene to Protein: Information Transfer in Normal and Abnormal Cells, 1979

Construction OF THE SPLIT OVALBUMIN Factor

The 1872 nucleotides of ovalbumin mRNA (ov-mRNA) (see Fig. 1c, and Ref. xix, 20) are encoded for by a chicken genomic DNA region of about 7.seven kb which contains a leader-coding region (17) and vii mRNA coding regions (exons i to 7) separated by 7 introns (intervening sequences) A to G. A schematic representation of this structure is given in Fig. 1b, which corresponds to the restriction enzyme map of the ovalbumin region inserted in a λ Charon 4A clone (λC4-ov5) (14). The split organization of the ovalbumin factor is visualized in Fig. 2 as a hybrid Dna-RNA molecule between ov-mRNA and the Deoxyribonucleic acid of λC4-ov5 clone. The leader-coding region and the 7 exons (1 to 7) (thicker Dna-RNA hybrid regions) are separated past 7 single-stranded DNA loops (A to One thousand) which correspond to the introns. The sizes of the leader coding region (L) and of the exons 1 to seven which are known from sequencing studies (xiv, 17, twenty) are 47, 185, 51, 129, 118, 143, 156 and 1043 nucleotides, respectively (see Fig. 1c). It is unknown at present whether these exonic RNA domains could correspond to protein domains (for a discussion of this problem, see Refs. 8, 46). From electron microscopic measurements the sizes of the 7 introns A to G are 1560 ± 147, 238 ± 45, 601 ± 35, 411 ± 58, 1029 ± 71, 323 ± 36, 1614 ± 88 bp, respectively. For introns B, C and D which accept been sequenced, these electron microscopic measurements are in very proficient understanding with the sequence results which give 251, 582 and 401 bp, respectively (C. Benoist, R. Breathnach and One thousand. O'Hare, unpublished results). From all of these results, the length of the ovalbumin factor from the region coding for the 5′ terminate of the ov-mRNA to the region coding for its iii′ end is about vii.seven kb, approximately four times longer than the size of the mature mRNA.

FIGURE ane. Organization of the ovalbumin cistron. a) Scale in kilobase pairs (kb) for Fig. 1b.b) Localization of the exons (1 to 7, heavy lines) and introns (A to One thousand) of the ovalbumin gene in λC4-ov5 (see Ref. 14) inside and upstream from the Eco RI fragments Eco "a", Eco "b" and Eco "c" (8, 17, eighteen). The horizontal dotted line represents λ Charon 4A sequences. The arrows indicate the limits of the 16.7 kb genomic Dna fragments inserted in λC4-ov5. 50 corresponds to the location of the leader-coding sequences as determined past electron microscopy and DNA sequencing (meet Ref. xiv). The Eco, Pst, Hind and Hha I sites represent to Eco RI, Pst I, Hind III and Hha I restriction enzyme sites (taken from references 8, 12 and 14). c) Schematic representation of ov-mRNA. The full length, the position of the AUG and UAA codons are taken from references 17, 19 and 20. Fifty refers to the leader sequence and 1 to 7 correspond to the 7 domains of ov-mRNA coded by exons 1 to 7. The arrows betoken the limits of these domains, assuming that the splicing events obey the "GT-AG rule" (encounter Ref. 17 and text). Numbers in parentheses indicate the length (in nucleotides) of the domains.

FIGURE 2. Electron microscopy of an RNA-DNA hybrid molecule between ovalbumin mRNA and the DNA of clone λC4-ov5 (see text and Ref. fourteen). In the line drawing, ov-mRNA is represented by a dashed line, whereas the solid line corresponds to single-stranded Dna. 5′ and three′ arrow heads : 5′ and three′ ends of ov-mRNA, respectively. 1 to vii (the thicker Deoxyribonucleic acid-RNA hybrid regions) correspond to the ovalbumin cistron exons, whereas A to Grand stand for to the vii introns. L is the hybrid region respective to the leader-coding sequences. The RNA-Dna hybrid region is 1893 ± 114 bp long. The lengths of intronic loops A to G and of the exonic mRNA-DNA hybrid segments i to vii are (in nucleotides or base of operations pairs) : 1560 ± 147 (A), 238 ± 45 (B), 601 ± 35 (C), 411 ± 58 (D), 1029 ± 71 (East), 323 ± 36 (F), 1614 ± 88 (G), 197 ± 34 (1), 85 ± 14 (2), 164 ± 25 (three), 143 ± 18 (4), 154 ± 25 (5), 201 ± 28 (6) and 1097 ± 51 (7), respectively. There is nigh seven.7 kb between the 5′ cease of loop A and the 3′ finish of exon 7. The bar represents 0.1 μm.

In no example have we institute a dissimilar arrangement of the ovalbumin separate gene, when we compared the genomic DNA of cells in which the cistron is expressed (for instance, hen oviduct)with that of cells in which the gene is non transcribed (for instance, erythrocyte). This indicates that extensive gene rearrangement, such as establish during lymphocyte differentiation (21), is not involved in the mechanisms leading to the expression of ovalbumin during differentiation. It is interesting that none of our studies (7, viii, thirteen, xiv) have provided show that the ovalbumin intronic sequences are repeated in their entirety in the chicken genome. This may have some bearing on the mechanisms which accept led to the divide gene organisation. In contrast, we accept found that some amino-coding regions of the ovalbumin factor are repeated elsewhere in the craven genome (come across Ref. 8). In fact some contempo studies of A. Imperial et al. (personal advice) propose that duplication of at least one office of the ovalbumin factor could accept occurred during the course of evolution.

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Molecular Biological science of Lymphoma

Vassaliki I. Pappa Thou.D. , Bryan D. Young Ph.D. , in The Lymphomas (Second Edition), 2006

C-myc Activation

Burkitt's lymphoma has feature chromosomal translocations that involve a recombination between the Ig heavy-chain locus and the c-myc oncogene. 2–8 The human immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus is oriented on chromosome 14 with the variable regions telomeric to the constant regions. The breakpoint on chromosome fourteen is frequently in the switch region located 5′ to the Cμ constant region cistron. The breakpoints on chromosome 8 are usually in or around the beginning noncoding exon of the c-myc gene. The usual result of this translocation is to create a fusion sequence with c-myc joined with the Sμ region in opposite transcriptional directions. The 2 variant chromosome translocations, t(2;eight) and t(8;22), observed in virtually 10% of Burkitt's lymphoma are due to a recombination between the c-myc locus and the kappa light-chain gene (Igk) 9 on chromosome ii or the lambda light-chain gene (Igl) 10 on chromosome 22. In contrast to the heavy-chain locus, both light-concatenation loci are oriented with their variable regions centromeric to their constant regions, and the breakpoints usually lie five′ to the joining region segments, thus leaving the J region enhancer sequences intact. The respective breakpoints on chromosome 8 occur 3′ to the c-myc gene at a distance that tin range from 400 bp to over 100 kb from the c-myc polyadenylation site. xi–13 Occasionally the distance tin can exist sufficient to result in a cytogenetically dissimilar breakpoint on chromosome 8, xiv and information technology remains possible that a different gene may be involved. Indeed, the analogous variant translocation in murine plasmacytomas involves a locus other than c-myc, named pvt-1 (plasmacytoma variant translocation). xv

A farther event of translocation of the c-myc locus tin be the introduction of point mutations into its promoter region, the start noncoding exon, 16, 17 or either of the ii coding exons. 18 Boosted evidence of somatic mutation, especially in the endemic form of Burkitt's lymphoma has been demonstrated by restriction enzyme mapping. PvuII restriction enzyme digestion of DNA from 13 endemic lymphomas revealed 10 abnormally sized c-myc alleles indicating a high level of point mutation effectually the site of transcription termination. 17 Somatic mutation is a mutual means of generating antibody variety during normal VDJ rearrangement, and similar mechanisms may exist directed at the translocated c-myc allele. Since the other c-myc allele on chromosome 8 is usually in a germ-line configuration, it can be used an internal control to evaluate the deregulation of the translocated allele. Most studies indicate that the translocated allele continues to be expressed, whereas the normal allele is switched off. 19–21 The extinction of the normal allele and expression of the translocated allele announced to happen independently of whether the breakpoint is within or 5′ to the c-myc gene. 22, 23 A similar analysis of a variant t(two;8) translocation indicated that the rearranged allele connected to be expressed. 9 Although this deregulation leads to more c-myc mRNA 24, 25 and more c-Myc poly peptide 26, 27 in Burkitt'south lymphoma cells than other lymphoblastoid cell lines, such quantitative changes may be less important than the inability of the rearranged cistron to respond usually to regulatory factors. The indicate mutations are scattered over a large part of the coding sequence of the translocated allele, but with a concentration in the Myc box 1 in the Due north-last domain. The most oft mutated balance is Thr-58, the phosphorylation of which targets c-Myc for deposition by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. 28 Mutation of Thr-58 causes decreased proteasome-mediated turnover of c-Myc and increased half-life. 29 The resulting disturbance of c-Myc levels could exist an important part of tumor progression.

At that place is epidemiologic and clinical bear witness that there are two distinct forms of Burkitt's lymphoma: endemic and desultory. 30 Although both forms have the typical chromosome translocations, there announced to exist subtle differences in the mode of activation, with the desultory course oftentimes involving deletion of c-myc regulatory sequences, whereas the endemic form frequently involves betoken mutations or insertions. 17 It has been suggested that cells from the endemic cases may be derived from the germinal centre of lymph nodes, and that cells from the desultory cases may be derived from the bone marrow. thirty It tin be speculated that the endemic form is derived from cells at an before phase in the B-cell lineage than the sporadic form. Thus, the endemic translocations, which have a proportion of lite-concatenation Ig gene involvement and a high rate of mutation, could stand for errors in VDJ recombination, an upshot that takes identify early in B-cell development. 31 The t(8;fourteen) translocation establish in AIDS-associated Burkitt'due south lymphoma appears to resemble more closely that found in the owned form. 32, 33

Direct evidence that deregulated c-myc genes may have a causative office in Burkitt'due south lymphoma has come from the report of transgenic mice. Animals transgenic for c-myc linked to a steroid inducible promoter oft have breast carcinomas, 34 whereas mice transgenic for c-myc linked to an Ig enhancer oftentimes become lymphomas. 35 It is interesting that in that location is a definite latency period for tumor development, during which farther genetic changes take identify, implying that c-myc activation lonely is insufficient for full tumorigenicity.

The c-myc gene encodes a 47-Kd protein that is concentrated in the nucleus, and which is known to accept Deoxyribonucleic acid binding properties, albeit at a high concentration. 36 It is highly conserved between mouse and human, and is part of a gene family that includes North-myc and L-myc. Many studies have shown that c-Myc promotes cell cycle progression and inhibits differentiation (run into review by Packham and Cleveland 37 ). Withdrawal of growth factors from normal cells results in the down-regulation of c-Myc and the aggregating of cells at the G1/S purlieus. 38, 39 Enforced c-Myc expression can overcome such cell cycle abort and drive cells into Due south phase. 40 Ablation of c-Myc by antisense oligonucleotides or expression constructs blocks entry into Due south phase. 41, 42 c-Myc protein may therefore exist regarded every bit a positive regulator of jail cell cycle progression with its function beingness essential for progression through G1 into Southward phase.

The presence of 2 sequence motifs in c-Myc that mediate protein-protein interactions implies that c-Myc functions every bit a transcription factor. In particular, the heptad echo of leucine residues (leucine zipper or LZ) and the helix-loop-helix (HLH) domain are both features known to mediate protein-protein interactions between transcription factors. c-Myc also contains an adjacent bones region (b region), which makes direct sequence-specific interactions with Dna. Thus, c-Myc contains an extended bHLH-LZ region of a type also found in a group of closely related transcription factors, including USF, 43 TFE3, 44 TFEB, 45 AP-4, 46 and the c-Myc dimerization partner Max. 47, 48

c-Myc protein is known to form heterodimers with Max, 49 an interaction that profoundly enhances the sequence specific binding of c-Myc to DNA. 50 Max can homodimerize fifty and heterodimerize with two additional bHLH-LZ proteins, Mxil 51 and Mad, 52 forming complexes that can bind to Deoxyribonucleic acid. Although the c-Myc/Max interaction is central to c-Myc function, other interactions with c-Myc accept been demonstrated. For case, c-Myc has been shown to interact with the retinoblastoma-related protein P107 (a suppressor of cell growth). 53, 54 Interactions between c-Myc and P107 require the N terminus of c-myc, and, in some Burkitt'southward lymphomas, mutations in the N terminus of c-Myc have been shown to render c-Myc resistant to P107- mediated suppression. 53 Thus, events that complimentary c-Myc from the negative regulation of P107 may contribute to tumorigenesis in some lymphomas. The Due north-concluding domain of c-Myc has been shown to interact with a protein called TRRAP, 55 and this interaction appears to be essential for c-myc's oncogenic activity. 56 The TRRAP protein is known to recruit GCN5, a histone acetyltransferase, giving ascent to the hypothesis that c-Myc-Max heterodimers activate transcription through recruitment of histone acetyltransferases, histone acetylation, and chromatin remodeling.

A number of experimental systems have been used to demonstrate that the enforced expression of c-Myc not only results in cell wheel progression, but can also induce apoptosis. For case, enforced c-Myc expression in 32D.three myeloid progenitor cells induces apoptosis in the absence of IL3. 38 Upon withdrawal of IL3, these cells normally down-regulate c-Myc and accumulate at the G0/G1 boundary. These and other experiments have led to the thought that c-Myc expression, in circumstances when the prison cell would normally be quiescent, leads to apoptosis. 37, 57 Information technology may seem paradoxical that activation of c-Myc, which tin pb to apoptosis, is so strongly linked to tumors such as Burkitt'southward lymphoma. Still, it is clear from c-Myc transgenic mice that boosted events are required before tumors develop. Additionally, a serial of genes (bcl-2, pim-1, bmi1, raf-1, ras, and abl) has been identified as cooperating with c-Myc to advance tumorigenesis (37). Some of these genes (bcl-ii, pim-1, raf-1) can suppress apoptosis, and information technology would seem probable therefore that c-Myc-mediated tumorigenesis is due to c-Myc-induced cell cycle progression with concomitant suppression of apoptosis provided by other genetic events.

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