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. 1985 Feb;82(4):1094–1098. doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.4.1094

Polyadenylylation of sea urchin histone RNA sequences in transfected COS cells.

J L Nordstrom, S L Hall, M M Kessler
PMCID: PMC397200  PMID: 2858095

Abstract

The region of pSV2neo that encompasses the simian virus 40 early polyadenylylation signal was replaced with a DNA fragment that spans the 3' end of a sea urchin (Psammechinus miliaris) histone H2A gene. This clone, pMK2.H2A(3'), was used to transfect COS cells. RNA analysis revealed that transcripts from pMK2.H2A(3') were polyadenylylated at a site 85 nucleotides downstream from the expected 3' end of mature H2A mRNA. Nucleotide sequencing showed that the site of poly(A) addition was located 10 nucleotides downstream from a cluster of four A-A-U-A-A-A sequences. The lower accumulation of MK2.H2A(3') mRNA, which was 5-10% that of SV2neo mRNA, suggests that the H2A polyadenylylation signal is relatively inefficient. The relationship of the above findings to the 3' end processing of other histone mRNAs is discussed.

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