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Nucleic Acids Research, 1981, Vol. 9, No. 3 579-589
© 1981

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Skeletal muscle actin mRNA. Characterization of the 3' untranslated region

M. Shani, U. Nudel, D. Zevin-Sonkin, R. Zakut*, D. Givol*, D. Katcoff, Y. Carmon, J. Reiter+, A.M. Frischauf+ and D. Yaffe

Department of Cell Biology Heidelberg, GFR *Department of Chemical Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel +European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, GFR

Received November 10, 1980. Plasmids p749, p106, and p150 contain cDNA inserts complementary to rat skeletal muscle actin mRNA. Nucleotide sequence analysis indicates the following sequence relationships: p749 specifies codons 171 to 360; p150 specifies codons 357 to 374 together with 120 nucleotides of the 3'-non-translated region; p106 specifies the last actin amino acid codon, the termination codon and the entire 3' non-translated region. Plasmid p749 hybridized with RNA extracted from rat skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, smooth (stomach) muscle, and from brain. It also hybridizes well with RNA extracted from skeletal muscle and brain of dog and chick. Plasmid p106 hybridized specifically with rat striated muscles (skeletal and cardiac muscle) mRNA but not with mRNA from rat stomach and from rat brain. It also hybridized to RNA extracted from skeletal muscle of rabbit and dog but not from chick. Thermal stability of the hybrids and sensitivity to S1 digestion also indicated substantial divergence between the 3' untranslated end of rat and dog skeletal muscle actins. The investigation shows that the coding regions of actin genes are highly conserved, whereas the 3' non-coding regions diverged considerably during evolution. Probes constructed from the 3' non-coding regions of actin mRNAs can be used to identify the various actin mRNA and actin genes.


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