Three cDNA clones encoding mouse transplantation antigens: Homology to immunoglobulin genes
Abstract
We constructed cDNA libraries from poly(A)+ RNA isolated from cell lines of two different inbred strains of mice, and screened the libraries with a cDNA clone encoding a human transplantation antigen. Three cDNA clones were identified, sequenced and found to encode amino acid sequences highly homologous to portions of a known mouse transplantation antigen. Comparison of the cDNA sequences of mouse transplantation antigens with the constant region domains of the mouse immunoglobulin μ gene reveals a striking homology, which suggests that the two genes share a common ancestor. Antibody genes undergo DNA rearrangements during B cell differentiation that are correlated with their expression. In contrast, DNA blots with these cDNA probes suggest that the genes for the transplantation antigens are not rearranged in the genomes of liver or embryo cells, which express these antigens, as compared with sperm cells, which do not express these antigens. In Bam HI-digested liver DNAs from different inbred strains of mice, 10–15 bands of hybridization were found. Accordingly, the genes encoding the transplantation antigens appear to constitute a multigene family with similar gene numbers in different mice.
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© 1981 by MIT. Received 24 December 1980, Revised 23 January 1981. We thank Michael Douglas for computer graphics. M. S. is the recipient of a fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and D. F. and T. H. are NIH trainees. J. G. F. is supported by an NIH postdoctoral fellowship. This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.Additional details
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
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