title: Poly A-containing histone H4 mRNA variant (H4-v. 1): isolation and sequence determination from bovine adrenal medulla.
abstract: A histone H4 cDNA variant (H4-v.1) was cloned from a bovine adrenal medullary phage library using PCR as a method of detection. The isolated clones contained a short 5' untranslated region (UTR) followed by the histone H4 coding region and a long atypical 3'UTR. The 3'UTR comprised the palindromic and purine-rich sequences typical of cell-cycle dependent histone mRNAs, and a 1.1 kb extension downstream of the palindromic sequence ending with a poly(A) track typical of cell-cycle independent histone mRNAs. Northern blot and RT-PCR analyses indicate that the transcript is fully expressed in bovine adrenal medulla. Thus, bovine histone H4-v.1 mRNA represents the first example of a histone H4 transcript that contains both 3'UTR characteristics of cell-cycle dependent and cell-cycle independent histone mRNAs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ont., Canada.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gendron
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dumont
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Gagné
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lemaire
mesh_terms: D000313:Adrenal Medulla / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006657:Histones / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011061:Poly A / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis*; D051381:Rats; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006657:Histones; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011061:Poly A