Identification of an alternatively spliced transcript of equine interleukin-1 beta
1996
Kato, H. | Youn, H.Y. | Ohashi, T. | Watari, T. | Goitsuka, R. | Tsujimoto, H. | Hasegawa, A.
Using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated equine peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cDNA as a template, we performed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification with equine interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) specific primers. Electrophoresis of the PCR product on agarose gel revealed an additional smaller fragment that hybridized with an equine IL-1 beta cDNA probe. Sequencing of this fragment demonstrated that it was shorter than normal equine IL-1 beta cDNA by 162 nucleotides, which corresponded to exon 5 of the human and murine IL-1 beta genes. The deletion of 162 nucleotides did not result in a frame shift but spliced out the putative exon 5 of the IL-1 beta gene which includes the cleavage site for the IL-1 beta converting enzyme (ICE) in human and murine IL-1 beta. Expression of the alternatively spliced IL-1 beta transcript in PBMC was also detected after stimulation with other compounds. These results clearly indicate the existence of an alternatively spliced IL-1 beta transcript in equine PBMC.
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