期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1981
卷号：78
期号：4
页码：2230-2234
DOI：10.1073/pnas.78.4.2230
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Thyroid or glucocorticoid hormone increases the synthesis of growth hormone (GH) by clonal lines of rat pituitary tumor cells. To investigate whether these increases arise from increased accumulation of GH-specific RNA sequences in the cytoplasm and nuclei of these cells, we adapted two existing procedures so that a 32P-labeled hybrid plasmid containing a cDNA sequence could be used to quantitate relative concentrations of the corresponding mRNA. One method (RNA gel blot hybridization) used electrophoresis of RNA, transfer to nitrocellulose paper, and hybridization to 32P-labeled plasmid. The other (RNA dot hybridization) used covalent attachment of RNA to activated cellulose paper squares and hybridization to 32P-labeled plasmid. As probe, we used a hybrid plasmid (pBR322-GH1) which we show by restriction analysis to contain a DNA sequence coding for rat GH. The results were comparable from both techniques and showed that incubation of GH3 cells with a thyroid hormone (triiodothyronine), a glucocorticoid hormone (dexamethasone), or both hormones caused an increase of cytoplasmic pre-GH mRNA sequences of about 4-, 22-, and 13-fold, respectively. Results obtained with the RNA gel blot hybridization method showed that hormonal stimulation leads to the induction of a single 1.0-kilobase species of pre-GH mRNA in the cytoplasm and of 2.7- and 1.0- kilobase species of GH-specific RNA in the nucleus.
