title: A mouse repeat sequence conserved in eukaryotic genomes.
abstract: To study the biological role of simple repetitive DNA sequences, we analysed a clone isolated from a mouse macrophage cDNA library called T2. This clone contains two simple repetitive sequences: a new sequence, 'CAGAGAGG', and a sequence previously described, 'GATA'. By sequencing analysis, an open reading frame, coding for 225 amino acids, is detected in the T2 clone. The new simple sequence is present thousands of time in the mouse genome, associated or not with the sequence 'GATA'. The sequence 'CAGAGAGG' is transcribed in messenger RNAs. Northern blots of RNAs extracted from adult tissues and from differentiated or non differentiated cell lines show a large number of transcripts that quantitatively decrease when in vitro differentiation occurs. Moreover, Southern blots of DNA extracted from different organisms, hybridize with a fragment containing only the 'CAGAGAGG' sequence, demonstrating that this sequence is represented in the genome of phylogenetically distant eukaryotes, and is highly conserved during eukaryotic evolution.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Developmental Biology, C.N.R., Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Carlo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Montana
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Romancino
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Monteleone
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D015723:Gene Library; D005796:Genes; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid