title: Isolation and characterization of a novel interferon-alpha-encoding gene, IFN-alpha 11, within a murine IFN cluster.
abstract: Two recombinant cosmids containing three complete murine interferon-alpha-encoding genes (Mu IFN-alpha) have been isolated from a mouse cosmid library. The cluster organization of these genes has been determined. A new Mu IFN-alpha gene (Mu IFN-alpha 11) has been isolated and studied with respect to its structure and inducible transcription pattern. The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the Mu IFN-alpha 11 gene, as compared to the two other IFN-alpha 7 and IFN-alpha 8 genes, show that, albeit highly homologous, these genes are all different. The transient expression of the three genes gave rise to proteins showing antiviral properties which were neutralized with murine anti-IFN-alpha antibodies. The transcription of the Mu IFN-alpha genes was studied in two uninduced or Newcastle-disease-virus-induced murine cell types. Mu IFN-alpha 11, as well as alpha 7 and alpha 8, are not expressed in L929 nor in C243 cells upon viral induction and therefore constitute an interesting model to study Mu IFN-alpha gene repression.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Laboratoires de l'Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer, UPR-37 C.N.R.S., Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coulombel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vodjdani
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doly
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D015870:Gene Expression; D016898:Interferon-alpha / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014721:Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus / Q000254:growth & development
chemical_list: D016898:Interferon-alpha; D004247:DNA