title: Cloning of the Dck gene encoding rat deoxycytidine kinase.
abstract: In order to study the mutational inactivation of deoxycytidine kinase (Dck) in a rat model for acute myeloid leukemia we have cloned the complete coding region of the rat Dck gene. Using primers chosen from the human Dck cDNA sequence, we obtained a rat-specific probe via PCR and used it to isolate two clones from a rat lymphocyte cDNA library. The ORF showed 89.7 and 92.2% nucleotide identity with the human and mouse Dck, respectively, and encodes a 260-amino-acid protein, that is 91.9 and 94.6% homologous to human and mouse Dck, respectively. Northern blot analysis of rat tissues revealed high expression of a 4.1-kb Dck transcript in the thymus, whereas spleen, liver and lung samples showed weak expression of the gene. This tissue-specific expression pattern was confirmed by cDNA-PCR analysis.
authors: Laboratory for Experimental Hematology, University Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors: A P
authors: AP
authors: Stegmann
authors: M W
authors: MW
authors: Honders
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Willemze
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Landegent
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D003842:Deoxycytidine Kinase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D009928:Organ Specificity; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D051381:Rats / Q000235:genetics*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D003842:Deoxycytidine Kinase