title: Identification and tissue distribution of a novel rat glucocorticoid receptor splice variant.
abstract: Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a steroid hormone receptor that has been shown to play important roles in diverse cellular and physiological processes. More and more evidence has revealed that the effects of glucocorticoids are mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor through genomic or nongenomic mechanisms. A growing number of glucocorticoid receptor splice variants have been identified in human tissues, but few are known in rat tissues. In this work, a novel rGR cDNA, called rGRbeta, was cloned from Sprague Dawlay (SD) rat liver. Sequence analysis revealed that the rGRbeta mRNA was 39 base pairs (bp) shorter than the rGR mRNA reported earlier. The deleted segment is located in exon 1 and encodes 13 repeated glutamine residues. Both the rGR and rGRbeta mRNAs were quantitated by Northern blot hybridization using non-homologous glucocorticoid cDNA probes. Results showed that the rGR and rGRbeta mRNAs were most abundant in the lung, the least abundant in the heart, and there were more rGR and rGRbeta mRNAs in the kidney than in the liver. The identification of rGRbeta may contribute to the understanding of the genomic or nongenomic effects of glucocorticoids.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Center, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burn and Combined Injury, Research Institute of Surgery and Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Huiming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zongping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Renping
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Yuanguo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xingyun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D017931:DNA Primers; D005260:Female; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D012326:RNA Splicing; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011965:Receptors, Glucocorticoid / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011965:Receptors, Glucocorticoid