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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-6-30
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
We have identified two V lambda genes outside the major lambda locus on chromosome 22q11.2, and shown that they reside on chromosome 8q11.2. One gene (Orphée1), hybridizing strongly to the V lambda probes, was sequenced and found to belong to the V lambda 8 family; the other gene (Orphée2) only hybridized weakly. Orphée1 was present in all individuals tested (140) from three different populations, and was also found in gorillas. We envisage that these genes were generated by duplication and translocation of the V lambda 8a gene (and a V lambda pseudogene) from the major locus, and that this event occurred before the evolutionary divergence of humans and gorillas. As there is no other evidence for V lambda genes outside the major locus, it appears that the human lambda locus has undergone considerably less evolutionary shuffling than either the human light chain kappa locus or the heavy chain locus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0014-2980
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1260-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-9-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Immunoglobulin lambda light chain orphons on human chromosome 8q11.2.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre for Protein Engineering, MRC, Cambridge, GB. frippiat@scbiol.u-nancy.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't