Amino acid sequence of the variable region of a human mu chain: location of a possible JH segment.
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 77 (6), 3239-3243
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.77.6.3239
Abstract
The complete amino acid sequence of the variable (V) region of the .mu. H chain of a human Ig[immunoglobulin]M (Cam) was determined. The strategy for sequence determination involved sequenator analysis of the CNBr cleavage products of the succinylated carboxymethylated Fab .mu. fragment and of tryptic peptides of the CNBr polypeptides and thermolytic subpeptides. The variable region of this H chain (VH) belongs to the VHIII subgroup; it has greater than 70% homology with other VHIII sequences and contains the VHIII marker peptide, Phe-Thr-Ile-Ser-Arg (residues 67-71). As more sequences have been published, the number of subgroup-specific residues has diminished to the point that no position is absolutely subgroup specific. An analysis of the available human VH sequences in the V/C switch region showed the likelihood of a human JH segment (residues 101-113) analogous to the J segments in mouse L chains. The JH region is highly conserved, has striking homology to proposed mouse JH regions, and has significant homology to known mouse J.lambda. and J.kappa. segments.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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