Isolation and characterization of 21 novel expressed DNA sequences from the distal region of human chromosome 4p
- Tokai Univ. School of Medicine, Kanagawa (Japan); and others
The authors have established an approach to the isolation of expressed DNA sequences from a defined region of the human chromosome. The method relies on the direct screening of cDNA libraries using pooled single-copy microclones generated by a laser chromosome microdissection in conjunction with a single unique primer polymerase chain reaction (SUP-PCR) procedure. They applied this method to the distal region of human chromosome 4p (4p15-4pter), which contains the Huntington disease (HD) and the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) loci. Twenty-one nonoverlapping and region-specific cDNA clones encoding novel genes were isolated in this manner. Ten of 21 clones were subregionally assigned to 4p16.1-4pter, and the remainder mapped to the region proximal to 4p16.1. Northern blot and reverse transcription followed by the PCR (RT-PCR) analysis revealed that 16 of these 21 clones detected transcripts in total RNA from human tissues. The method is applicable to other chromosomal regions and is a powerful approach to the isolation of region-specific cDNA clones. 44 refs., 3 figs., 3 tabs.
- OSTI ID:
- 249987
- Journal Information:
- Genomics, Vol. 22, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: 15 Jul 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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