Characterization of the molecular defects in the mouse E beta f and E beta q genes. Implications for the origin of MHC polymorphism.
- 28 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 144 (5), 1957-1964
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.144.5.1957
Abstract
The E beta f and E beta q genes have been isolated and sequenced to investigate the molecular basis for their defective expression. A previous study from this laboratory, which characterized the expression of these genes at the RNA level, showed both genes to have defects in posttranscriptional RNA processing. In this paper, the defect in the E beta q gene from the inbred mouse strain B10.G (Mus musculus domesticus) is shown to be a single base insertion in the RNA donor splice site of the first intron. This identical mutation was described previously for the E beta gene of the H-2w17 haplotype, which was derived from the Asian house mouse subspecies Mus musculus castaneus. Although it has been estimated that M. m. domesticus and M. m. castaneus separated from each other more than one million years ago, comparisons of genomic sequences reveal that the nonexpressed E beta q and E beta w17 alleles have not diverged significantly from one another; they are identical in their protein coding regions and have only minor differences elsewhere. In contrast, sequence comparisons of A beta q and A beta w17 show that these two expressed alleles differ by multiple amino acids. These findings provide evidence that selection, acting on expressed MHC proteins, plays a role in accumulation and maintenance of MHC polymorphism. The defective E beta f gene from the inbred strain B10.M has also been isolated. Sequence analysis has identified a mutation in the same RNA donor splice site as E beta q and E beta w17; however, in this gene the mutation is a single base substitution at position 5.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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