| Literature DB >> 3027054 |
K Ueda, D P Clark, C J Chen, I B Roninson, M M Gottesman, I Pastan.
Abstract
Multidrug resistance in human KB carcinoma cells selected for resistance to colchicine, vinblastine, or adriamycin results from overexpression, and frequently amplification, of a specific gene (mdr1). Overlapping cDNA clones representing a complete 4.7-kilobase mdr1 transcript have been obtained from multidrug-resistant KB cells. Primer extension and S1 nuclease protection experiments show that two transcripts initiate 136 and 140 bases upstream from the first ATG codon in all human multidrug-resistant cell lines. The mdr1 gene is expressed in human normal kidney cells and HepG2 liver cells as a poly(A)+ RNA which starts from the same sites. Less prominent transcripts were found to initiate 155-180 bases upstream from the first ATG codon in vinblastine- or adriamycin-selected cell lines and 480-630 bases upstream in colchicine-selected cell lines. Southern hybridization analyses with different portions of a full-length cDNA indicate that the human mdr1 gene encompasses at least 70 kilobases of DNA amplified in all highly multidrug-resistant cell lines.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID： 3027054
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biol Chem ISSN： 0021-9258 Impact factor: 5.157