1. Preparation of Immunoglobulin Light-Chain mRNA from Microsomes without the Use of Detergent.
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Harrison, Timothy M., Brownlee, George G., and Milstein, Cesar
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MESSENGER RNA , *IMMUNOGLOBULINS , *SEPARATION (Technology) , *MICROSOMES , *DETERGENTS , *RIBOSOMES , *CELL membranes , *NUCLEOPROTEINS - Abstract
A technique which releases ribosomes from membranes without the use of detergent described in the preceding paper is shown to allow the separation of two distinct pools of poly(A)-containing RNA in microsomes. Thus, using preparations from mouse myeloma tissue-culture cells, essentially 100 % release of immunoglobulin mRNA occurs under conditions in which only 50-60 % of the total microsomal poly(A)-containing RNA is released. The RNA which is not released is principally mitochondrial ribosomal RNA and the method thus provides a good preparative procedure for this fraction. Messenger ribonucleoprotein particles involved in immunoglobulin biosynthesis have been prepared from the released material. The heavy-chain mRNA-containing particle sediments in a neutral sucrose gradient at about 22 S, and that containing the light-chain mRNA at about 18 S. The ribosome-release technique has been used for the rapid preparation of light-chain mRNA in good yield and at over 60 % purity after a single sucrose gradient centrifugation. Further purification has been achieved by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Using [32P]RNA, the contaminants can be estimated directly at the chemical leveI using a fingerprint assay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1974
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