Abstract
An extended synthetic oligonucleotide (58-mer) has been used to identify and characterize a human liver gap junction cDNA. The cDNA is 1,574 bases long and contains the entire coding region for a gap junction protein. In vitro translation of the RNA products of this cDNA is consistent with it coding for a 32,022-D protein. Southern blot analysis indicates that the gap junction gene is present as a single copy, and that it can be detected in a variety of organisms using the human liver cDNA as a probe. The human cDNA has been used to screen a rat liver cDNA library, and a rat liver junction cDNA clone has been isolated. The rat liver clone is 1,127 bases in length, and it has strong sequence homology to the human cDNA in the protein-coding region, but less extensive homology in the 3'-untranslated region.
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Created | 21 years, 3 months ago (May 14, 2004, 8:18 p.m.) |
Deposited | 2 years, 1 month ago (July 21, 2023, 8 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 week, 4 days ago (Aug. 23, 2025, 1 a.m.) |
Issued | 39 years ago (Sept. 1, 1986) |
Published | 39 years ago (Sept. 1, 1986) |
Published Online | 39 years ago (Sept. 1, 1986) |
Published Print | 39 years ago (Sept. 1, 1986) |
@article{Kumar_1986, title={Cloning and characterization of human and rat liver cDNAs coding for a gap junction protein.}, volume={103}, ISSN={1540-8140}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.103.3.767}, DOI={10.1083/jcb.103.3.767}, number={3}, journal={The Journal of cell biology}, publisher={Rockefeller University Press}, author={Kumar, N M and Gilula, N B}, year={1986}, month=sep, pages={767–776} }