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8% of the genes that were not induced by these stimuli had mRNA half-lives of less than 4 hours ( P < 0.001).
Two anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members that were expressed in OCI-Ly3 cells - A1 and MCL1 - had mRNA half-lives shorter than 3 hours.
Given the demonstration that flavopiridol is a global transcriptional inhibitor, we wished to understand the selective activity of flavopiridol against certain cancer types in vivo . Clearly, genes with short mRNA half-lives would be most rapidly and quantitatively inhibited by flavopiridol, and thus we wished to assign the genes with short half-lives in OCI-Ly3 cells to functional classes.
The half-lives of both enzymes were tested at 37°C over a 74-hour time period to assess relative stability.
As shown in Figure 5a, a substantial proportion (44%) of the inducible genes had mRNA half-lives shorter than 2 hours.