REGULATION OF ACTIVIN BETA-A MESSENGER-RNA LEVEL BY CAMP

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TANIMOTO, K
TAMURA, K
UENO, N
USUKI, S
MURAKAMI, K
FUKAMIZU, A
机构
[1] UNIV TSUKUBA,INST APPL BIOCHEM,TSUKUBA,IBARAKI 305,JAPAN
[2] UNIV TSUKUBA,INST CLIN MED,TSUKUBA,IBARAKI 305,JAPAN
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10.1016/0006-291X(92)91799-V
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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We demonstrated the presence of five species of the activin βA mRNA in human placenta and one major RNA associated with two minor RNAs of the activin in the fetal membrane. We investigated the effect of 8-bromo-cAMP (8-Br-cAMP) on accumulation of activin βA subunit mRNA in human fibrosarcoma HT1080 cells. Although low levels of the activin mRNA were detectable in the untreated cells, the one main RNA species was predominantly accumulated by 8-Br-cAMP. We propose that generation of multiple activin mRNAs in the fetal membrane and cAMP-treated HT1080 cells is presumably due to a cell-specific alternative polyadenylation. © 1992.
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