Nm23 is a kind of effective tumor metastasis suppressor genes which included two types in human:nm23-H1 and nm23-H2. Amino acid identity between nm23-H1 and nm23-H2 was 88%.In this study,using a pair of primers to fla...Nm23 is a kind of effective tumor metastasis suppressor genes which included two types in human:nm23-H1 and nm23-H2. Amino acid identity between nm23-H1 and nm23-H2 was 88%.In this study,using a pair of primers to flank the part of coding sequence of nm 23,the 5'-translated sequence was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from human normal liver genomic DNA.A 375-base pairs clone was charactertzed,which designated pnm23-H3b.The nm23-H3b nucleotide sequence between 40 bp and 70 bp is different from nm23-H1 and nm23-H2,and other sequences have 86%and 90%identical to nm23-H1 and nm23-H2,respectively.Southern blot containing BglⅡ-digested human liver genomic DNA hybridized to the entire nm23-H3b DNA and showed three bands at 10.5,7.9 and 4.0 Kb.These data demonstrate that the third human nm23 exists possibly.Therefore,nm23 may be considered a family of closely related genes.展开更多
文摘Nm23 is a kind of effective tumor metastasis suppressor genes which included two types in human:nm23-H1 and nm23-H2. Amino acid identity between nm23-H1 and nm23-H2 was 88%.In this study,using a pair of primers to flank the part of coding sequence of nm 23,the 5'-translated sequence was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from human normal liver genomic DNA.A 375-base pairs clone was charactertzed,which designated pnm23-H3b.The nm23-H3b nucleotide sequence between 40 bp and 70 bp is different from nm23-H1 and nm23-H2,and other sequences have 86%and 90%identical to nm23-H1 and nm23-H2,respectively.Southern blot containing BglⅡ-digested human liver genomic DNA hybridized to the entire nm23-H3b DNA and showed three bands at 10.5,7.9 and 4.0 Kb.These data demonstrate that the third human nm23 exists possibly.Therefore,nm23 may be considered a family of closely related genes.
