GSBS Student Publications
Title
Isolation and analysis of murine serum amyloid P component cDNA clones
GSBS Program
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
1988-11-15
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
In contrast to other animals, the biosynthesis of serum amyloid P component in mice is regulated as an acute-phase protein. As a first step in studying the regulation and biosynthesis of serum amyloid P component in the mouse, cDNA clones have been isolated from a liver cDNA library and sequenced. The largest of these clones was 960 bp in length, and contained an open reading frame encoding a protein of 224 amino acids. Comparison of the mouse cDNA sequence to that published for humans (Mantzouranis, E. C., S. B. Dowton, A. S. Whitehead, M. D. Edge, G. A. P. Bruns, and H. R. Colten, 1985. J. Biol. Chem. 260:7752.) revealed 74% identity for nucleotides in the translated region. Northern-blot analysis demonstrated that murine serum amyloid P component synthesis in the liver is directed by a 1.2-kb mRNA that is elevated in high responder (C57BL/6J) mice after thioglycollate-induced inflammation.
Source
J Immunol. 1988 Nov 15;141(10):3642-6.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Related Resources
PubMed ID
3183383
Repository Citation
Mole JE, Beaulieu BL, Geheran CA, Carnazza JA, Anderson JK. (1988). Isolation and analysis of murine serum amyloid P component cDNA clones. GSBS Student Publications. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/506