Kalmykova A I, Dobritsa A A, Gvozdev V A
Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Genetics. 1998 Jan;148(1):243-9. doi: 10.1093/genetics/148.1.243.
We report the organization and transcription of diverged tandemly repeated Y-linked Su(Ste) genes that are considered as suppressors of testis-expressed X-linked-repeated Stellate genes that encode a protein sharing extensive homology with beta-subunit of casein kinase 2. Clustering of restriction variants is confirmed. Size variants of Su(Ste) repeats appeared to be nonhomogeneously distributed among the P1 phage clones. Different ways of Su(Ste) RNA processing because of the appearance of new splice sites and polyadenylation signals were detected. The high extent of homology between Stellate and Su(Ste) repeats suggested a possibility of Stellate suppression by antisense transcription of Su(Ste) elements. The detection of only "sense" Su(Ste) cDNAs in testis cDNA library allows us to reject this proposal. The genomic and cDNA clones are shown to be equally diverged. This indicates widespread rather than restricted transcription capacity of these repeats.
我们报道了Y染色体上串联重复的分化型Su(Ste)基因的组织与转录情况,这些基因被认为是睾丸表达的X染色体重复Stellate基因的抑制因子,后者编码一种与酪蛋白激酶2的β亚基具有广泛同源性的蛋白质。限制变体的聚类得到了证实。Su(Ste)重复序列的大小变体似乎在P1噬菌体克隆中呈非均匀分布。由于新剪接位点和聚腺苷酸化信号的出现,检测到了不同的Su(Ste) RNA加工方式。Stellate和Su(Ste)重复序列之间的高度同源性表明,Su(Ste)元件的反义转录有可能抑制Stellate。在睾丸cDNA文库中仅检测到“有义”的Su(Ste) cDNA,这使我们否定了这一推测。基因组克隆和cDNA克隆显示出同样程度的分化。这表明这些重复序列具有广泛而非受限的转录能力。