title: Localization of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene on human chromosome 7.
abstract: Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a potent mitogen for hepatocytes and a variety of epithelial cells in culture. The cDNAs for human and rat HGF have been cloned by different researchers, including ourselves; however, no information on the genomic structure and chromosome localization of the HGF gene is yet available. To investigate HGF's chromosomal localization, DNA from a battery of human-hamster somatic cell hybrids was digested with BglII and analyzed by Southern blot using a 2.3-kb human HGF cDNA as a hybridization probe. The gene encoding the human HGF was assigned to human chromosome 7. Restriction enzyme and Southern blot analyses using the HGF cDNA and HGF-specific oligonucleotides as probes suggest that the human HGF gene exists as a single-copy gene and is composed of several exons.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania 15261.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zarnegar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: DeFrances
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Michalopoulos
mesh_terms: D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000235:genetics*; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D006133:Growth Substances; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor