Sequence analysis of the homeobox-containing exon of the murine Hox-4.3 homeogene.
A homeobox-containing gene * was detected by Southern analysis of a cosmid spanning a region of the murine HOX-4 complex between Hox-4.4 (Hox-5.2) and Hox-4.2 (Hox-5.1) with a probe derived from the Hox-4.2 homeobox. The sequence of a cross-hybridizing region revealed an open reading frame encoding an Antennapedia (Antp) class homeodomain highly homologous to the products of human HOX4C (Hox-5.4/HOX4E), mouse Hox-3.1 and Hox-2.4. This, together with strong conservation of sequences 3' to the homoebox, indicates that we have cloned the murine Hox-4.3 gene. No other homeobox sequences were detected in this screen suggesting that the HOX-4 complex lacks paralogous genes represented in the equivalent regions of other HOX loci.
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McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D005091:Exons; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid