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Expression of aldolase isozyme mRNAs in fetal rat liver.

The regulation of aldolase isozyme expression during development was studied by measuring the concentrations of mRNAs coding for aldolase A and B subunits in fetal and adult rat liver. Poly(A)-containing RNAs were extracted from livers at various stages of development of fetal rats, and the aldolase A and B subunits in the in vitro translation products of these RNAs were analyzed immunologically. The content of aldolase B mRNA in 14-day fetal liver, measured quantitatively as translational activity, was somewhat smaller than that of aldolase A mRNA; immunologically precipitable aldolase B and A amounted to 0.06% and 0.25% respectively, of the total products. Similar experiments using RNAs from fetuses at later stages, however, showed that aldolase B mRNA increased during development, whereas aldolase A mRNA decreased. In newborn rat liver, aldolase B constituted 0.56% of the total translation products of mRNA, but there was little detectable aldolase A (0.03%). The changes of aldolase mRNA levels were analyzed further by northern blot and dot-blot hybridization experiments using cloned aldolase A and B cDNAs. The content of aldolase B mRNA increased in the fetal stage, and that in newborn rat liver was about 12 times that in 14-day fetal liver. In contrast, the aldolase A mRNA content decreased during gestation and that in newborn rat liver was about one-eighth of that in 14-day fetal liver. These observations suggest that the switch of aldolase isozyme expression in fetal liver is controlled by the levels of the respective mRNAs.[1]

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  1. Expression of aldolase isozyme mRNAs in fetal rat liver. Numazaki, M., Tsutsumi, K., Tsutsumi, R., Ishikawa, K. Eur. J. Biochem. (1984) [Pubmed]
 
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