title: Chicken chromosomal protein HMG-14 and HMG-17 cDNA clones: isolation, characterization and sequence comparison.
abstract: A cDNA clone coding for the chicken high-mobility group 14 (HMG-14) mRNA has been isolated from a chicken-liver cDNA library by screening with two synthetic oligodeoxynucleotide pools whose sequences were derived from the partial amino acid sequence of the HMG-14 protein. A chicken HMG-17 cDNA clone was also isolated in a similar fashion. Comparison of the two chicken HMG cDNA clones to the corresponding human cDNA sequences shows that chicken and human HMG-14 mRNAs and polypeptides are considerably less similar than are the corresponding HMG-17 sequences. In fact, the chicken HMG-14 is almost as similar to the chicken HMG-17 in amino acid sequence as it is to mammalian HMG-14 polypeptides. HMG-14 and HMG-17 mRNAs seem to contain a conserved sequence element in their 3'-untranslated regions whose function is at present unknown. The chicken HMG-14 and HMG-17 genes, in contrast to their mammalian counterparts, appear to exist as single-copy sequences in the chicken genome, although there appear to exist one or more additional sequences which partially hybridize to HMG-14 cDNA. Chicken HMG-14 mRNA, about 950 nucleotides in length, was detected in chicken liver RNA but was below our detection limits in reticulocyte RNA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Dodgson
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Black
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005796:Genes; D006609:High Mobility Group Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D006609:High Mobility Group Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D004247:DNA