title: Molecular genetic analysis of the duplication of human inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) sequences.
abstract: In previous studies, we found multiple copies of inducible nitric oxide synthase gene (NOS2)-like sequences in the human genome and mapped them to the pericentric region of chromosome 17. Here, we describe the cloning and sequencing of exon22 regions from three of these NOS2-like sequences. We have also mapped another NOS2-like sequence to human chromosome 14. Since there are multiple NOS2-like sequences present in the human genome, we have also carried out Zoo Blot hybridisation analysis using a NOS2 cDNA probe. Our data suggest that duplication of NOS2-like sequences occurred very recently in primate evolution.
authors.affiliation: MRC Molecular Neuroscience Group, Department of Neurobiology, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: I G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Charles
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Koni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moncada
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Emson
mesh_terms: D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002144:Callithrix / Q000235:genetics; D002460:Cell Line; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002886:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015342:DNA Probes; D006071:Gorilla gorilla / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008252:Macaca fascicularis / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000235:genetics; D011148:Pongo pygmaeus / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases