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. 1978 Dec;75(12):5846–5850. doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.12.5846

Construction of a recombinant bacterial plasmid containing a chick pro-alpha2 collagen gene sequence.

M E Sobel, T Yamamoto, S L Adams, R DiLauro, V E Avvedimento, B de Crombrugghe, I Pastan
PMCID: PMC393072  PMID: 366605

Abstract

A recombinant plasmid containing chick pro-alpha2 collagen gene sequences has been constructed and cloned in Escherichia coli. Using partially purified collagen mRNA as template, we synthesized double-stranded DNA by the successive action of reverse transcriptase (RNA-directed DNA nucleotidyltransferase) from avian myeloblastosis virus and the Klenow A fragment of E. coli DNA polymerase I. From this complex mixture of double-stranded DNAs, a specific 200-base-pair restriction fragment was generated by cleavage with the restriction endonucleases BamHI and EcoRI. These enzymes also make unique cuts in the plasmid vector pBR322. The restriction fragment was inserted into pBR322 via these BamHI and EcoRI sites and cloned in E. coli chi1776. The cloned recombinant plasmid was shown to contain pro-alpha2 collagen DNA by its specific hybridization to chick pro-alpha2 collagen mRNA, as assayed in an in vitro translation system. Thus, a clone containing pro-alpha2 collagen DNA was constructed without first obtaining highly purified collagen mRNA.

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