title: Isolation and characterization of 21 novel expressed DNA sequences from the distal region of human chromosome 4p.
abstract: We have established an approach to the isolation of expressed DNA sequences from a defined region of the human chromosome. The method relies on the direct screening of cDNA libraries using pooled single-copy microclones generated by a laser chromosome micro-dissection in conjunction with a single unique primer polymerase chain reaction (SUP-PCR) procedure. We applied this method to the distal region of human chromosome 4p (4p15-4pter), which contains the Huntington disease (HD) and the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) loci. Twenty-one nonoverlapping and region-specific cDNA clones encoding novel genes were isolated in this manner. Ten of 21 clones were subregionally assigned to 4p16.1-4pter, and the remainder mapped to the region proximal to 4p16.1. Northern blot and reverse transcription followed by the PCR (RT-PCR) analysis revealed that 16 of these 21 clones detected transcripts in total RNA from human tissues. Our method is applicable to other chromosomal regions and is a powerful approach to the isolation of region-specific cDNA clones.
authors.affiliation: Ikeda GenoSPHERE Project, ERATO, JRDC, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hadano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagayama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tomiyasu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wakasa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ikeda
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002894:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D016324:Sequence Tagged Sites
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger