title: Sequences of exon 6 and the adjacent intron boundaries of the rat platelet-derived growth factor A-chain gene: implications for alternative splicing.
abstract: Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is a potent stimulator of vascular smooth muscle cell growth. Two isoforms of PDGF A-chain mRNA that either include (long form) or exclude (short form) exon 6 are produced as a result of alternative splicing in mouse, rabbit, and human. The short form of PDGF A-chain is expressed in both resting and activated cells, while the long form is present predominantly in activated cells. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis with primers encompassing exon 6 revealed the presence of both long- and short-form PDGF A-chain transcripts in rat vascular smooth muscle cells. The nucleotide sequences of exon 6 and its intron boundaries were determined from rat vascular smooth muscle cell cDNA and rat leukocyte genomic DNA. Translation of the long form of PDGF A-chain mRNA was shown to terminate in the 70-base pair exon 6. Conserved sequences that may contribute to the regulation of alternative RNA splicing were identified in intron 5.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kishioka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soma
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Izumi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kanmatsuse
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005091:Exons; D007438:Introns; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000166:cytology; D010982:Platelet-Derived Growth Factor / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D051381:Rats; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D010982:Platelet-Derived Growth Factor