Chimini G, Pontarotti P, Nguyen C, Toubert A, Boretto J, Jordan B R
Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille-Luminy, France.
EMBO J. 1988 Feb;7(2):395-400. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1988.tb02826.x.
The large-scale organization and polymorphism of the HLA class I region was investigated by pulsed field gel (PFG) fractionation of DNA from various HLA-typed cell lines cleaved by different 'rare cutter' restriction enzymes, followed by hybridization with 'general' and locus-specific HLA probes. Results indicate that (i) most HLA class I sequences are contained in a 340 kb MluI DNA fragment which also carries the HLA-A gene; (ii) HLA-A, -B and -C genes are present on different fragments bounded by 'HTF islands' (CpG-rich, unmethylated DNA regions containing multiple sites for 'rare cutter' enzymes) which generally coincide with the 5' regions of expressed genes; and (iii) very little fragment size polymorphism is seen, implying that expansion/contraction events in the HLA class I region due to unequal crossing over (as documented in the mouse class I system) are infrequently found in the human population.
通过脉冲场凝胶(PFG)对来自各种HLA分型细胞系的DNA进行分级分离,这些DNA被不同的“稀有切割”限制酶切割,然后与“通用”和位点特异性HLA探针杂交,研究了HLA I类区域的大规模组织和多态性。结果表明:(i)大多数HLA I类序列包含在一个340 kb的MluI DNA片段中,该片段也携带HLA - A基因;(ii)HLA - A、- B和- C基因存在于由“HTF岛”(富含CpG、未甲基化的DNA区域,含有多个“稀有切割”酶的位点)界定的不同片段上,这些“HTF岛”通常与表达基因的5'区域重合;(iii)几乎没有观察到片段大小多态性,这意味着在人类群体中很少发现由于不等交换(如在小鼠I类系统中所记录的)导致的HLA I类区域的扩增/收缩事件。