Akimenko M A, Heidmann O, Rougeon F
Nucleic Acids Res. 1984 Jun 11;12(11):4691-701. doi: 10.1093/nar/12.11.4691.
We have isolated the rabbit immunoglobulin b9 Ck light chain gene and compared its nucleotide sequence with the b4, b4var , b5 and bas Ck sequences. In spite of the high number of substitutions found between the different rabbit Ck coding regions, only very few changes are silent. Furthermore, the nucleotide changes are clustered in segments which correlate with the bends and helical regions found in the tertiary structure of the Ck domain of the protein. The flanking regions present a higher degree of conservation than the coding regions. The two genomic EcoRI fragments hybridizing to a b4cDNA probe have been correlated with the two distinct loci, Ck1 and Ck2 : one encodes for the nominal b9 Ck allotype and the other contains the information for the bas Ck region. The b allotypes are true alleles which could have evolved by intergenic conversion.
我们分离出了兔免疫球蛋白b9 Ck轻链基因,并将其核苷酸序列与b4、b4var、b5和bas Ck序列进行了比较。尽管在不同的兔Ck编码区之间发现了大量的替换,但只有极少数变化是沉默的。此外,核苷酸变化集中在与蛋白质Ck结构域三级结构中的弯曲和螺旋区域相关的片段中。侧翼区域比编码区域具有更高的保守程度。与b4 cDNA探针杂交的两个基因组EcoRI片段已与两个不同的基因座Ck1和Ck2相关联:一个编码标称的b9 Ck同种异型,另一个包含bas Ck区域的信息。b同种异型是真正的等位基因,可能通过基因间转换进化而来。