title: Inactivation of rabbit immunoglobulin lambda chain variable region genes by the insertion of short interspersed elements of the C family.
abstract: Two rabbit germ-line genes encoding immunoglobulin lambda light chain V regions were cloned from a rabbit genomic liver DNA library and characterized. One, V lambda 1, is separated by at least 8 kb from any other V lambda gene. The second, V lamdba 4, forms part of a three-gene cluster with two functional V lambda genes recently reported. Both V lambda 1 and V lambda 4 have structural features rendering them pseudogenes. The coding regions have frame-shift mutations which would yield defective protein products; both genes are also interrupted by the insertions of short, interspersed repetitive elements of the C family. In the V lambda 1 gene, the 369-bp insert is located upstream of the gene between the putative TATA box and the leader exon, whereas in gene V lambda 4, the 360-bp insert interrupts the FR2 at codon 48c. In addition, the sequence of the complement-determining region 3 of gene V lambda 1 is very similar to the mouse DSP2.6 sequence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Hayzer
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Jaton
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005803:Genes, Immunoglobulin; D007135:Immunoglobulin Variable Region / Q000235:genetics*; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011544:Pseudogenes; D011817:Rabbits; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D007135:Immunoglobulin Variable Region; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains