Post-transcriptional regulation of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase gene expression in rat tissues
Author(s) -
Marc Piechaczyk,
Jean Marie Blanchard,
L. Marty,
Christian Dani,
F. Panabières,
Sanaa EL SABOUTY,
Philippe Fort,
Ph. Jeanteur
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/12.18.6951
Subject(s) - glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , complementary dna , gene expression , gene , dehydrogenase , messenger rna , transcription (linguistics) , coding region , glyceraldehyde , enzyme , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy
We have isolated and identified cDNA clones containing part of the coding sequence for rat glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase (GAPDH, E.C. 1.2.1.12). By using one of these clones as a probe, we have shown that: i) the abundance of GAPDH mRNA is different in various tissues of the adult rat and in good correlation with the abundance of the enzyme; ii) the transcription rates are quite similar in all tissues tested. We therefore conclude that the tissue-specific differential GAPDH gene expression is regulated by adjusting the abundance of its mRNA at the post-transcriptional level.
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