Characterisation of bacterial clones containing DNA sequences derived from Xenopus laevis vitellogenin mRNA.

AUTOR(ES)

Smith, D F

RESUMO

A 1700 nucleotide DNA sequence derived from Xenopus vitellogenin mRNA has been cloned in the bacterial plasmid pBR322. The identity of the cloned sequence was verified in two ways. Firstly, the plasmid DNA was shown to hybridise to an RNA of the correct size (6,700 nucleotides). This was shown by in situ hybridisation to electrophoretically separated RNA and also by the formation of "R-loops" with purified vitellogenin mRNA. Then, using a novel procedure in which plasmid DNA covalently bound to diazotised paper is used to select complementary mRNA sequences, the cloned sequence was shown to hybridise to an mRNA which directed the synthesis of vitellogenin when translated in a reticulocyte lysate cell-free system.

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