title: Partial purification and characterization of the messenger RNA for cell fibronectin.
abstract: Fibronectin mRNA has been partially purified by guanidine extraction, oligo-(dT)-cellulose chromatography and sucrose density gradient centrifugation. We obtain a fraction which programs a wheat germ in vitro translation system to synthesize a polypeptide species which co-electrophoreses with fibronectin in SDS-polyacrylamide gels and which is immunoprecipitated with affinity purified fibronectin-specific IgG. Analysis of this RNA fraction by methyl mercury hydroxide-agarose gel electrophoresis reveals the presence of a band accounting for 30 percent to 50 percent of the ethidium bromide-staining material in the fraction. The RNA of this band has an estimated molecular weight of about 3 million daltons and is greatly reduced in the corresponding RNA fraction from RSV transformed CEF. This RNA has been tentatively identified as fibronectin mRNA.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002642:Chick Embryo; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D005353:Fibronectins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012313:RNA / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D014908:Triticum / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005353:Fibronectins; D012313:RNA