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. 1987 Sep;84(18):6531–6535. doi: 10.1073/pnas.84.18.6531

Posttranscriptional gene regulation and specific binding of the nonhistone protein HMG-I by the 3' untranslated region of bovine interleukin 2 cDNA.

R Reeves, T S Elton, M S Nissen, D Lehn, K R Johnson
PMCID: PMC299111  PMID: 3498164

Abstract

The 3' untranslated tail region (3'-UTR) of the cDNA of bovine interleukin 2 (bIL-2) acts as a lymphoid cell-specific gene regulatory element in vivo when ligated to the 3' end of the "marker" bacterial gene coding for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) and the hybrid fusion gene is introduced into bovine lymphoid cells by transfection. Evidence is also presented that the 3'-UTR with its conserved (TATT)n motif probably has multiple functions in lymphoid cells operating both at the chromosomal level, where the sequence may be involved in the specific binding of the nonhistone chromatin high mobility group protein HMG-I, and at the RNA level, where the conserved sequence is involved in selective posttranscriptional mRNA degradation by a lymphocyte-specific nuclease(s). These results suggest a complex in vivo role for the 3'-UTR of bIL-2 cDNA and the conserved (TATT)n sequences found within it. They also offer a plausible explanation for the high degree of conservation of similar A + T-rich sequences in the 3'-UTRs of many of the other immune-response and growth-regulatory genes of mammals.

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