title: Differentiation stage-specific expression of a gene during granulopoiesis.
abstract: Differential screening of a recombinant cDNA library using cDNAs transcribed from poly(A)+ RNA of normal or leukemic leukocytes revealed a number of recombinants homologous to mRNAs characteristic of particular leukemias. The occurrence of one of these (pCG14) in high abundance was shown to be sufficiently characteristic of the circulating leukocyte population of chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) patients to distinguish them from all other populations of leukocytes. We have now characterized the gene encoding this mRNA and shown that its expression is specific to the granulocyte lineage in hemopoietic cells and is, moreover, limited to a narrow stage of differentiation during granulopoiesis. Our results explain why high levels of pCG14 RNA are characteristic of chronic granulocytic leukemia peripheral blood leukocytes.
authors.affiliation: Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, U.K.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wiedemann
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Francis
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Winnie
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: MacKenzie
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Birnie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D006224:Cricetinae; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D004247:DNA