title: Primary structure of the goat beta-globin locus control region.
abstract: The goat beta-globin cluster is composed of a triplicated four-gene set. A locus control region (LCR) containing elements homologous to 5'DNase I hypersensitive sites (HS) 1, 2, and 3 of the human beta-globin LCR has been identified at the 5' end of this locus. We determined 10.2 kb of nucleotide sequence from the goat beta-globin locus control region. Self-comparison of this sequence by dot matrix analysis revealed the presence of six complete and three incomplete artiodactyl repeats. A novel repeated element, termed D repeat, was also identified. Southern blotting analysis demonstrated that these elements exist in the goat genome as a low to medium frequency interspersed repeat family. The absence of any other large region of self-homology (direct or inverted) in the goat LCR suggests that 5'HSs 1, 2, and 3 did not arise through duplication, but rather evolved independently. By comparing goat 5'HS 1 to those of human, rabbit, and mouse, we show a greater than 80% conservation in sequence between the four species. This level of evolutionary conservation suggests that 5'HS 1 plays an important role in the regulation of beta-globin loci.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Powers
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Enver
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stamatoyannopoulos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002843:Chromatin; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics; D005914:Globins / Q000235:genetics*; D006041:Goats / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D011817:Rabbits; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D005914:Globins