Rapid isolation of cell-type-specific protein tyrosine kinases by degenerate polymerase chain reaction combined with differential hybridization technique

Autor: Tadao Kakizoe, Masaru Katoh, Atsushi Takahashi, Sun Jin Kim, Masaaki Terada, Takashi Sugimura, Hiroshi Sasaki, Y.K. Kim
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 214(1)
ISSN: 0006-291X
Popis: To identify protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) genes preferentially expressed in renal cell carcinoma cell line, we screened a PTK-cDNA-enriched library constructed from RNA of an renal cell carcinoma cell line with a PTK probe, each produced from renal cell carcinoma, gastric cancer or esophageal cancer cell lines by degenerate polymerase chain reaction. Two cDNA fragments of PTK genes, FRK and FLT-3, were isolated from the PTK-cDNA-enriched library of the renal cell carcinoma cell line by differential hybridization technique. The FRK cDNA clone represented 15.8% of the PTK-cDNA-enriched library from the renal cell carcinoma cell line, while the FLT-3 cDNA clone was 2.8% of the same library. Both of the two PTK genes were expressed preferentially in renal cell carcinoma cell lines. This method, described here, is useful for the rapid isolation of PTK cDNA fragments, including a low abundant cDNA, preferentially expressed in a specific cell line.
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