Chromosome-specific subfamilies within human alphoid repetitive DNA
Nucleotide sequence data of about 20 × 10 3 base-pairs of the human tandemly repeated alphoid DNA are presented. The DNA sequences were determined from 45 clones containing EcoRI fragments of alphoid DNA isolated from total genomic DNA. Thirty of the clones contained a complete 340 base-pair dimer u...
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Published in | Journal of molecular biology Vol. 187; no. 2; pp. 185 - 196 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford
Elsevier Ltd
20.01.1986
Elsevier |
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Summary: | Nucleotide sequence data of about 20 × 10
3 base-pairs of the human tandemly repeated alphoid DNA are presented. The DNA sequences were determined from 45 clones containing
EcoRI fragments of alphoid DNA isolated from total genomic DNA. Thirty of the clones contained a complete 340 base-pair dimer unit of the repeat. The remaining clones contained alphoid DNA with fragment lengths of 311, 296, 232, 170 and 108 base-pairs. The sequences obtained were compared with an average alphoid DNA sequence determined by Wu & Manuelidis (1980). The divergences ranged from 0.6 to 24.6% nucleotide changes for the first monomer and from 0 to 17.8% for the second monomer of the repeat. On the basis of identical nucleotide changes at corresponding positions, the individual repeat units could be shown to belong to one of several distinct subfamilies. The number of nucleotide changes defining a subfamily generally constitutes the majority of nucleotide changes found in a member of that subfamily. From an evaluation of the proportion of the total amount of alphoid DNA, which is represented by the clones studied, it is estimated that the number of subfamilies of this repeat may be equal to or exceed the number of chromosomes. The expected presence of only one or a few distinct subfamilies on individual chromosomes is supported by the study, also presented, of the nucleotide sequence of 17 cloned fragments of alphoid repetitive DNA from chromosome 7. These chromosome-specific repeats all contain the characteristic pattern of 36 common nucleotide changes that defines one of the subfamilies described. A unique restriction endonuclease (
NlaIII) cleavage site present in this subfamily may be useful as a genetic marker of this chromosome.
A family member of the interspersed
Alu repetitive DNA was also isolated and sequenced. This
Alu repeat has been inserted into the human alphoid repetitive DNA, in the same way as the insertion of an
Alu repeat into the African green monkey alphoid DNA. |
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ISSN: | 0022-2836 1089-8638 |
DOI: | 10.1016/0022-2836(86)90227-5 |