title: Isolation and characterization of the Bos taurus beta-casein gene.
abstract: The expression of casein genes in the mammary cells is regulated by peptide and steroid hormones. To investigate the controlling mechanisms we have isolated and characterized the bovine beta-casein gene. The gene has the size of 8.6 kb, which is 7.8 times longer than the corresponding mRNA composed of nine exons. The genomic clones include additional 8.5-kb and 4.5-kb sequences of the 5'- and 3'-flanking regions. We have determined the sequences of the 5' and 3' ends of the gene and compared them with the respective sequences of the rat beta-casein gene. Conserved sequences are identical or homologous to the potential binding sites for nuclear factors and for glucocorticoid and progesterone receptors. The regulatory region contains two different TATA signals and a repeat sequence between them.
authors.affiliation: N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Gorodetsky
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Tkach
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Kapelinskaya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010582:Bacteriophage lambda / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002364:Caseins / Q000235:genetics*; D002417:Cattle; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005091:Exons; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010957:Plasmids; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D002364:Caseins; D004247:DNA