Further Evidence That the Majority of Primary Nuclear RNA Transcripts in Mammalian Cells Do Not Contribute to mRNA

Autor: James E. Darnell, M. Salditt-Georgieff
Rok vydání: 1982
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Zdroj: Molecular and Cellular Biology. 2:701-707
ISSN: 1098-5549
0270-7306
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.2.6.701
Popis: Nuclear RNA from Chinese hamster ovary cells was effectively separated into polyadenylic acid [poly(A)]-containing [poly (A)+] and non-poly(A)-containing [poly(A)−] fractions so that ∼90% of the poly(A) was present in the (A)+fraction. Only 25% of the 5′-terminal caps of the large nuclear molecules were present in the (A)+class, but about 70% of the specific mRNA sequences (assayed with cDNA clones) were in the (A)+class. It appears that many long capped heterogeneous nuclear RNA molecules are of a different sequence category from those molecules that are successfully processed into mRNA.
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