MRNA characterization

Harpster, M.H. Taylor, W.C. (1986). Maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases. Cloning and characterization of mRNAs encoding isozymic forms. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 261, 6132-6. 

Hooft van Huijsduijnen, R.A.M., Van Loon, L.C. Bol, J.F. (1986). cDNA cloning of six mRNAs induced by TMV infection of tobacco and a characterization of their translation products. EMBO Journal, 5, 2057-61. 

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, an overproduction hyperuricemia characterized by frequent episodes of uric acid hthiasis and a bizarre syndrome of self-mutilation, reflects a defect in hypoxanthme-guanine phosphoribo-syl transferase, an enzyme of purine salvage (Figure 34—4). The accompanying rise in intracellular PRPP results in purine overproduction. Mutations that decrease or abohsh hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltrans-ferase activity include deletions, frameshift mutations, base substitutions, and aberrant mRNA splicing. 

Stevens SW et al Composition and functional characterization of the yeast spliceosomal penta-snRNP. Mol Cell 2002 9 31-Tucker M, Parker R Mechanisms and control of mRNA decapping in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ann Rev Biochem 2000 69 571. 

In 1990, work was started to characterize the human genome which had been shown to consist of about 3 billion base pairs. The final result was announced in the year 2000. All of the chromosomes have been characterized. The human genome has been shown to contain some 30,000 genes (which are sections of the chromosome which code for specific proteins). Each cell produces the t T)e of proteins needed for it to function. The function of mRNA is to transfer information from the DNA. so as is to fix the limits of the protein needed. The vast majority of the proteins found in living organisms are composed of only 20 different kinds of amino acids, repeated many times and strung together in a particular order. Each type of protein has its own unique sequence of amino acids. This sequence, known as its primary structure, actually... 

Interferon-y (IFN-y) mRNA levels were measured in unstimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) and purified cell populations, using a bDNA assay, to characterize the cell types that contribute to the in vivo increase in IFN-y gene expression seen in HIV infection (Breen et al 1997). IFN-y is a cytokine that can be produced by multiple cell types and is considered to enhance cellular responses by activation of monocytes and macrophages. It is one of the type 1 cy-... 

Mouse vas deferens (MVD) seems to express CB1 and at least one CB2-like cannabinoid receptor type, as is demonstrated by the presence of CB1 and CB2-like mRNA as well as by data collected from experiments with cannabinoid receptor selective agonists and antagonists (Pertwee, 1999). Furthermore, evidence indicates that a CBl-like receptor exists in vascular endothelium, which upon activation produces significant hypotension (Wagner, 1999). This receptor differs from CB1 in its pharmacological response to some well-characterized cannabimimetics. 

Pines, J., and Hunt, T. (1987). Molecular cloning and characterization of the mRNA for cyclin from sea urchin eggs. EMBO J. 6 2987-2995. 

Newport I think there is a set of timers. We have actually characterized a couple of them, but we haven t published much on this. For instance, if you look at cdc2 mRNA, this decays right at the MBT. This is completely autonomous of replication. It is autonomous of centrosomes, as well. 

Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy, may be caused by the lack of hypocretin mRNA and peptides in humans (Peyron et al., 2000) or a disruption of the hypocretin receptor 2 or its ligand in dogs and mice (Lin et al., 1999 Chemelli et al., 1999). Hypocretin-containing neurons are located exclusively in the dorsomedial, lateral, and perifornical hypothalamic areas (Peyron et al., 1998). Two hypocretin sequences, Hcrt-1 (orexin-A) and Hcrt-2 (orexin-B), are generated from a single preprohypocretin (De Lecea et al., 1998 Peyron et al, 1998 Sakurai et al, 1998). Axons from these neurons are found in the hypothalamus, locus coeruleus (LC), raphe nuclei, tuberomamillary nucleus, midline thalamus, all levels of spinal cord, sympathetic and parasympathetic centers, and many other brain regions... 

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