Somatic cell hybridization of growth hormone-producing rat pituitary cells and mouse fibroblasts results in extinction of growth hormone expression via a defect in growth hormone RNA production.
Strobl J, Dannies P, Thompson E. Somatic cell hybridization of growth hormone-producing rat pituitary cells and mouse fibroblasts results in extinction of growth hormone expression via a defect in growth hormone RNA production. Journal Of Biological Chemistry 1982, 257: 6588-6594. PMID: 6176584, DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)65183-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMouse GH geneGH geneHybrid cellsHybrid cell DNAHigh molecular weight precursorNon-pituitary cellsSomatic cell hybridizationMolecular weight precursorMultiple restriction enzymesStructural geneTranscript degradationMature mRNARestriction enzyme analysisIncomplete transcriptsFlanking sequencesParental cell lineTranscriptional blockRestriction enzyme digestionRNA productionSouthern hybridizationCell hybridizationMRNA sequencesFibroblasts resultsGrowth hormone expressionMouse fibroblast cells