Publication Date:
1987-08-21
Description:
The molecular basis for the marked difference between primate and rodent cells in sensitivity to the cardiac glycoside ouabain has been established by genetic techniques. A complementary DNA encoding the entire alpha 1 subunit of the mouse Na+- and K+-dependent adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) was inserted into the expression vector pSV2. This engineered DNA molecule confers resistance against 10(-4) M ouabain to monkey CV-1 cells. Deletion of sequences encoding the carboxyl terminus of the alpha 1 subunit abolish the activity of the complementary DNA. The ability to assay the biological activity of this ATPase in a transfection protocol permits the application of molecular genetic techniques to the analysis of structure-function relationships for the enzyme that establishes the internal Na+/K+ environment of most animal cells. The full-length alpha 1 subunit complementary DNA will also be useful as a dominant selectable marker for somatic cell genetic studies utilizing ouabain-sensitive cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kent, R B -- Emanuel, J R -- Ben Neriah, Y -- Levenson, R -- Housman, D E -- CA-07919/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-26712/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-38992/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Aug 21;237(4817):901-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3039660" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cells, Cultured
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Cercopithecus aethiops
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DNA/genetics
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Drug Resistance
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Gene Expression Regulation
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Macromolecular Substances
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Mice
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Ouabain/*pharmacology
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Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/antagonists & inhibitors/*genetics
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Species Specificity
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Structure-Activity Relationship
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Transfection
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
