Huang Yin-ping, Ye Du-yun, Wu Ping, Huang Yun-feng, Sun Wei, Ying Hong-gang, Pan Qian, Wan Jing-yuan, Yuan Ping, Zhang Dai-juan
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China.
Zhonghua Fu Chan Ke Za Zhi. 2003 May;38(5):270-2.
To investigate the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in human lower segments of myometrium obtained from women in labor and those not in labor and identify the splice variant of COX-2.
Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used for investigating the expression of COX-2. According to the sequence of rat COX-2 splice variant, the primers were designed and synthesized, then the splice variant of COX-2 in human myometrium from woman in labor was identified, cloned into vector and sequenced.
The results showed that (1) The Expression of COX-2 mRNA was lower in human myometrium obtained from women who were not in labor than those in labor. (2) A new band of COX-2 was obtained in myometrium from a woman in labor. The fragment includes an unspliced intron, which locates between exons 7 and 8.
COX-2 gene is not only expressed highly in human myometrium from women in labor, but also produced splicing variant by alternative splicing.
研究环氧化酶-2(COX-2)在分娩和未分娩女性子宫下段中的表达,并鉴定COX-2的剪接变体。
采用逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)研究COX-2的表达。根据大鼠COX-2剪接变体的序列设计并合成引物,然后鉴定分娩女性子宫肌层中COX-2的剪接变体,克隆到载体中并测序。
结果显示:(1)未分娩女性子宫肌层中COX-2 mRNA的表达低于分娩女性。(2)在一名分娩女性的子宫肌层中获得了一条新的COX-2条带。该片段包含一个未剪接的内含子,位于外显子7和8之间。
COX-2基因不仅在分娩女性的子宫肌层中高表达,而且通过可变剪接产生剪接变体。