title: Complexity and sequence identification of 24 rat V beta genes.
abstract: Twenty-four TCR V beta genes were cloned by anchored PCR from the Lewis rat strain and identified by nucleotide and amino acid sequence comparisons to known mouse V beta genes. Rat V beta genes exist in 17 single-member and 3 multimember subfamilies and exhibit 86 to 94 and 72 to 92% nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities, respectively, to their mouse counterparts. A single rat gene, designated V beta 20, having no previously known mouse counterpart was identified; a closely related gene was subsequently isolated from the C57BL/6 mouse strain. Characterization of the rV beta genes provides the basis for addressing rat T cell tolerance mechanisms and V beta gene usage in immunologically mediated rat disease models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA 92037.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Theofilopoulos
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005796:Genes; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics*; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D009841:Oligonucleotides; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta