Tufarelli Cristina, Hardison Ross, Miller Webb, Hughes Jim, Clark Kevin, Ventress Nicki, Frischauf Anna Maria, Higgs Douglas R
MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
Genome Res. 2004 Apr;14(4):623-30. doi: 10.1101/gr.2143604.
We have sequenced and fully annotated a 65,871-bp region of mouse Chromosome 17 including the Hba-ps4 alpha-globin pseudogene. Comparative sequence analysis with the functional alpha-globin loci at human Chromosome 16p13.3 and mouse Chromosome 11 shows that this segment of mouse Chromosome 17 contains a group of three alpha-like pseudogenes (Hba-psm-Hba-ps4-Hba-q3), similar to the duplicated sets found at the functional mouse cluster on Chromosome 11. In addition, exons 7 to 12 of the mLuc7L gene are present just downstream from the pseudogene cluster, indicating that this clone contains the region in which human 16p13.3 switches in synteny between mouse Chromosomes 11 and 17. Comparison of the sequences around the alpha-like clusters on the two mouse chromosomes reveals the presence of conserved tandem repeats. We propose that these repetitive elements have played a role in the fragmentation of the mouse alpha cluster during evolution.
我们已经对小鼠17号染色体上一个65,871碱基对的区域进行了测序和全面注释,该区域包括Hba-ps4α-珠蛋白假基因。与人类16号染色体p13.3和小鼠11号染色体上的功能性α-珠蛋白基因座进行的比较序列分析表明,小鼠17号染色体的这一片段包含一组三个α样假基因(Hba-psm-Hba-ps4-Hba-q3),类似于在11号染色体上功能性小鼠基因簇中发现的重复序列。此外,mLuc7L基因的外显子7至12位于假基因簇下游,这表明该克隆包含人类16p13.3在小鼠11号和17号染色体之间同线性转换的区域。对两条小鼠染色体上α样基因簇周围序列的比较揭示了保守串联重复序列的存在。我们认为这些重复元件在小鼠α基因簇的进化过程中对其片段化起到了作用。