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Fibroin light chain (L-chain) mRNA (mol. wt 4.0×105 daltons) was purified from the posterior silk gland of the silkworm,Bombyx mori (J-131 strain). Double-stranded complementary DNA was synthesized and inserted into the PstI site of pBR322 employing the oligo(dC)-oligo(dG) tailing method. Several recombinant plasmids containing the inserts of about 800 base pairs were isolated. Hybridization-translation assay demonstrated that these clones hybridized specifically with the fibroin L-chain mRNA. One of these clones (pLA23) was used as a probe to investigate relative concentrations of the fibroin L-chain gene and mRNA in the posterior silk glands at different stages of late larval development.
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Acknowledgments. We thank Dr A. Hyodo, Dr K. Tsutusmi and Mr F. Takei for their valuable advice, and Mr A. Noda, of the Research Institute, Takara Shuzo Co. Ltd, for generously providing us with RAV-2 reverse transcriptase. This work was supported by grant No. 58 470 097 from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan.
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Kimura, K., Oyama, F., Ueda, H. et al. Molecular cloning of the fibroin light chain complementary DNA and its use in the study of the expression of the light chain gene in the posterior silk gland of Bombyx mori. Experientia 41, 1167–1171 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01951711
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