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Isolation of a cDNA clone for murine catalase and analysis of an acatalasemic mutant.

Abstract
We have investigated the genetic control of murine catalase expression by analyzing catalase transcription and translation products from the tissues of control (Csa) and acatalasemic (Csb) mouse strains. Csb animals possess nearly normal catalase enzyme activity levels in liver, while displaying approximately 20 and 1% of normal activity levels in kidney and red blood cells, respectively. Immunoblot analyses of catalase in these tissues have revealed reduced levels of immunologically reactive catalase protein in Csb kidney and red blood cells, paralleling the reduction of catalase enzyme activity in these tissues. In order to determine the molecular basis for Csb acatalasemia, we have isolated a cDNA clone for murine catalase and have used this probe to analyze Csa and Csb genomic DNA and catalase mRNA. These studies have revealed: 1) no restriction fragment length polymorphisms between Csa and Csb genomic DNAs; 2) no differences in the levels of Csa and Csb catalase mRNA within a single tissue; and 3) no differences in the sizes of Csa and Csb catalase mRNAs. These observations suggest that the genetic defect that produces the tissue-specific reduction of catalase expression in Csb mice is not due to a marked rearrangement of DNA within the Csb catalase structural gene. Furthermore, the Csb mutation does not act at the level of gene transcription or mRNA stability, but rather at the level of mRNA translation and/or catalase protein turnover.
AuthorsJ B Shaffer, R B Sutton, G C Bewley
JournalThe Journal of biological chemistry (J Biol Chem) Vol. 262 Issue 27 Pg. 12908-11 (Sep 25 1987) ISSN: 0021-9258 [Print] United States
PMID3654595 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • DNA
  • Catalase
Topics
  • Acatalasia
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Base Sequence
  • Catalase (genetics)
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • DNA (isolation & purification)
  • Liver (enzymology)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred Strains
  • Mice, Mutant Strains
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Plasmids
  • Rats

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