Isolation of human cDNAs for asparagine synthetase and expression in Jensen rat sarcoma cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Andrulis, I L
RESUMO
Asparagine synthetase cDNAs containing the complete coding region were isolated from a human fibroblast cDNA library. DNA sequence analysis of the clones showed that the message contained one open reading frame encoding a protein of 64,400 Mr, 184 nucleotides of 5' untranslated region, and 120 nucleotides of 3' noncoding sequence. Plasmids containing the asparagine synthetase cDNAs were used in DNA-mediated transfer of genes into asparagine-requiring Jensen rat sarcoma cells. The cDNAs containing the entire protein-coding sequence expressed asparagine synthetase activity and were capable of conferring asparagine prototrophy on the Jensen rat sarcoma cells. However, cDNAs which lacked sequence for as few as 20 amino acids at the amino terminal could not rescue the cells from auxotrophy. The transferant cell lines contained multiple copies of the human asparagine synthetase cDNAs and produced human asparagine synthetase mRNA and asparagine synthetase protein. Several transferants with numerous copies of the cDNAs exhibited only basal levels of enzyme activity. Treatment of these transferant cell lines with 5-azacytidine greatly increased the expression of asparagine synthetase mRNA, protein, and activity.
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