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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
37
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-9-8
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Bovine antibodies have recently attracted increasing attention, as they have been shown to exhibit prophylactic and therapeutic properties in selected infectious diseases in humans. In the present study, we have isolated bacterial artificial chromosomes and cosmid clones containing the bovine JH, mu, delta, gamma 1, gamma 2, gamma 3, epsilon, and alpha genes, which allowed us to make a contig of the genes within the bovine IGHC locus. The genes are arranged in a 5'-JH-7 kb-mu-5 kb-delta-33 kb-gamma 3-20 kb-gamma 1-34 kb-gamma 2-20 kb-epsilon- 13 kb-alpha-3' order, spanning approximately 150 kb DNA. Examination of the bovine germline JH locus revealed six JH segments, two of which, JH1 and JH2, were shown to be functional although there was a strong preference for expression of the former. Sequence alignment of the bovine 5' E mu enhancer core region with those of other mammals, demonstrated an absence of the mu E3 motif and a shortened spacer between the mu A and mu B sites within the bovine E mu enhancer core region. Furthermore, the essential sequence element for class switching, switch mu, spanning approximately 3-kb repetitive sequence and abundant in the switch region motifs CTGGG (187 repeats) and CTGAG (127 repeats), was identified immediately upstream of the mu gene. A further sequence comparison revealed that the bovine IGHC genes display an extensive polymorphism leading to expression of multiple antibody allotypes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
278
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
35024-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Genes, Immunoglobulin, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Immunoglobulin Constant Regions, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Polymorphism, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12829708-Sheep
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Physical mapping of the bovine immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region gene locus.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Biotechnology, Department of Bioscience at Novum, Karolinska, Institutet, SE-14157, Huddinge, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.