Authors: Mai, Zhuming¹; Horohov, David W.¹; Klei, Thomas R.²

Source: Comparative Medicine, Volume 48, Number 2, April 1998 , pp. 179-183(5)

Publisher: American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Abstract:

Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) is a purine salvage enzyme that catalyzes conversion of hypoxanthine and guanine to their respective mononucleotides. Because of its ubiquitous nature, HPRT is known as a “housekeeping” gene and has been frequently used as an internal control in reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) quantification of cytokine mRNA. Cloning and sequencing of the gerbil HPRT cDNA sequence is an important step in the development of RT-PCR procedures in this model. Two forms of gerbil HPRT cDNA were isolated and molecularly characterized.

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Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2: Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Publication date: 1998-04-01

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