title: Cloning and sequencing of a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid coding for a bovine alpha s1-casein A from mammary tissue of a homozygous B variant cow.
abstract: A cDNA clone for bovine alpha s1-casein variant A was isolated from a mammary gland cDNA library using a synthetic degenerate oligonucleotide probe. The largest Pst I insert containing an EcoR I site was sequenced. It contained 1090 base pairs, 47 in the 5' noncoding region, 603 in the coding region and 440 in the 3' noncoding region. The nucleotide sequence was compared with three published cDNA sequences for alpha s1-casein variant B. The most obvious difference was the absence of the 39 bases encoding the 13 amino acids that are present in the B variant but absent from the A variant. In addition, five other single base positions differed within individual codons among the four sequences at the third base for each codon, but this did not change the amino acids encoded. There were, however, a number of differences found in the 3' noncoding region. The isolated cDNA was subjected to site-directed mutagenesis to replace a Val-Ile dipeptide with Phe-Phe to increase the chymosin sensitivity of the protein. When the milk proteins from mammary gland tissue extracts were typed, the alpha s1-casein A gene product was not detected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis 95616.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: McKnight
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jimenez-Flores
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Creamer
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Richardson
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002364:Caseins / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics*; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015723:Gene Library; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008321:Mammary Glands, Animal / Q000032:analysis*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: D002364:Caseins; D004247:DNA