Cloning and analysis of a cDNA coding for bovine prothrombin.
Poly(A)-RNA enriched for prothrombin was isolated by specific immunoprecipitation of bovine liver polysomes. Prothrombin consisted of about 8% of the cell-free translation products of this RNA. A double-stranded cDNA was synthesized by using reverse transcriptase (RNA-dependent DNA nucleotidyltransferase) and made blunt-ended with nuclease S1. After tailing with dCTP and terminal transferase, the double-stranded cDNA was annealed to pBR322 DNA that had been cleaved previously at the single Pst I site and similarly tailed with dGTP. The resulting plasmids were used to transform Escherichia coli strain RR1 under P3-EK1 conditions. Sixty-three tetracycline-resistant clones were obtained that hybridized to 32P-labeled cDNA synthesized from prothrombin-enriched mRNA. Recombinants containing cDNA to prothrombin mRNA sequences were screened by a solution hybridization assay with a [3H]cDNA synthesized from mRNA. This enriched mRNA was 50% prothrombin mRNA, as determined by a reticulocyte lysate translation assay. Three positive clones were identified by this assay; they contained bovine DNA inserts of 700, 500, and 400 base pairs. The DNA sequence of the 700-base-pair insert was then determined. This recombinant plasmid contained DNA coding for the carboxyl-terminal 160 residues of bovine prothrombin followed by a noncoding region of 119 base pairs and a poly(A) tail of 60 base pairs.[1]References
- Cloning and analysis of a cDNA coding for bovine prothrombin. MacGillivray, R.T., Degen, S.J., Chandra, T., Woo, S.L., Davie, E.W. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1980) [Pubmed]
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