title: The human L35a ribosomal protein (RPL35A) gene is located at chromosome band 3q29-qter.
abstract: Using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based strategy that distinguishes functional intron-containing genes from pseudogenes, the chromosomal location of the human intron-containing L35a ribosomal protein gene (rpL35a, HGMW-approved symbol RPL35A) was previously deduced to be onchromosome 18 using DNAs from a panel of human-rodent somatic cell hybrids. The inability to detect rpL35a in a human-hamster somatic cell hybrid containing only human chromosome 18 led to a reinvestigation of the chromosomal location of the human rpL35a gene. A clone containing intron 2 of rpL35a was isolated, sequenced, and used to isolate a P1 clone containing the human intron-containing rpL35a gene. By fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis with the P1 clone as a probe, the rpL35a gene was located on chromosome band 3q29-qter. This location was confirmed by positive PCR analysis of a human-hamster somatic cell hybrid containing only human chromosome 3. The problem of using only human-rodent somatic cell hybrids for chromosome location is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Eukaryotic Gene Organisation and Expression, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Colombo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fried
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002893:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006224:Cricetinae; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007438:Introns; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011544:Pseudogenes; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; C489281:RPL35A protein, human; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins