Transposed human immunoglobulin Vκ gene regions carry clusters of conserved sequence elements
Autor: | F J Zimmer, Erika Lötscher, Friedrich Grummt, Wieslaw Siwka, Hans G. Zachau |
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Rok vydání: | 1988 |
Předmět: |
Genetics
Base Sequence Genes Immunoglobulin Molecular Sequence Data Restriction Mapping Immunoglobulin Variable Region Chromosome Locus (genetics) General Medicine Biology Biological Evolution Conserved sequence Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains Chromosomes Human Pair 2 DNA Transposable Elements Homologous chromosome Cosmid Humans Binding site Transcription factor Gene |
Zdroj: | Gene. 69:225-236 |
ISSN: | 0378-1119 |
DOI: | 10.1016/0378-1119(88)90433-7 |
Popis: | The V kappa I gene regions which have been transposed in evolution from the site of the kappa locus on chromosome 2 to chromosomes 1, 22, and other chromosomes, are very similar and may have been derived from one ancestor gene. Upstream from the transposed genes (called orphons) two types of conserved sequence elements were found using a mouse cell assay system. One type is homologous to the murine sequences which were previously thought to be ARS elements; the other one is related to the binding site of the replication/transcription factor NFIII. Such a combination of elements was seen neither in hybridization experiments with the 1 Mb of the kappa locus available on cosmid clones nor in a computer-aided search of sequence data libraries. We speculate that in the evolutionary past, the clustered elements played a role in the transposition of the V kappa genes, perhaps by causing an over-replication and/or by facilitating the integration of the genes. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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