title: Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of major histocompatibility complex genes in the non-obese diabetic mouse strain and its non-diabetic sister strains.
abstract: It has been suggested that one of the recessive genes controlling diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice is linked to the major histocompatibility complex. We, therefore, performed restriction fragment length polymorphism studies of major histocompatibility complex genes (class I, II, and III) in non-obese diabetic mice in comparison with those of their non-diabetic sister strains, non-obese non-diabetic, cataract, and ILI mice which were derived from the same Jcl-ICR mice as the non-obese diabetic mouse was. When class II and III probes and a minimum of four restriction enzymes were used, class II and III genes of non-obese diabetic mice were indistinguishable from those of cataract and ILI mice but totally different from those of non-obese non-diabetic mice. The studies also indicated that A beta, E beta, and C4-Slp genes of non-obese diabetic, cataract, and ILI mice, and A alpha, A beta, E beta and C4-Slp genes of non-obese non-diabetic mice are different from those of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice, respectively. While non-obese non-diabetic mice expressed the E alpha gene, non-obese diabetic, cataract, and ILI mice appeared to carry a deletion in the 5' end of the E alpha gene resulting in failure to transcribe the E alpha gene. When class I probe was used, cataract mice showed very different band patterns from those of the other ICR-derived mice. It is suggested that non-obese diabetic, non-obese non-diabetic, and ILI mice contain only a single class I D region gene.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujishima
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koide
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaidoh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: T O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D005805:Genes, MHC Class I; D005802:Genes, MHC Class II; D008285:Major Histocompatibility Complex; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains / Q000276:immunology*; D008817:Mice, Mutant Strains; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D013045:Species Specificity