PMID: 9545582Apr 18, 1998Paper

Analysis of expression of the gene encoding for the nuclear autoantigen La/SS-B using reporter gene constructs

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
D GrölzM Bachmann

Abstract

In earlier studies mRNA isoforms encoding for the nuclear autoantigen La were identified. In an alternative La mRNA form the exon 1 was replaced with the exon 1'. Moreover, exon 1' La mRNAs were found to start at different 5'-regions. In dependence on the 5'-start the exon 1' La mRNAs encoded for up to three open reading frames upstream of the La frame, which starts in the exon 2. The exon 1' was located in the intron about 70 nts downstream of the exon 1. The exon 1' La mRNA was proposed to be the result of a promoter switch in combination with an alternative splicing mechanism. The commonly used technique to study the expression of a eucaryotic gene is to fuse a reportergene immediately downstream of the proposed regulatory elements. Due to (i) the short distance between exon 1 and exon 1', (ii) the varying 5'-starts of the exon 1' La mRNAs, and (iii) the upstream open reading frames in the exon 1' La mRNAs this technique appeared to be difficult to apply to the La gene. In order to overcome these problems a luciferase reportergene construct was cloned which started about 2500 nts upstream of the exon 1 and contained the exon 1, the intron including the exon 1', and a portion of the exon 2. Luciferase was fused into the exon ...Continue Reading

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