title: Sequence and diversity of rabbit T-cell receptor gamma chain genes.
abstract: The nucleotide sequences of one constant (C), six variable (V), and two joining (J) gene segments coding for the rabbit T-cell receptor gamma chain (Tcrg) were determined by directly sequencing fragments amplified by the cassette-ligation mediated polymerase chain reaction. The Tcrg-C gene segment did not encode a cysteine residue for connection to the Tcr delta chain in the connecting region, and two variant forms of the Tcrg-C gene segment were generated by alternative splicing, like the human Tcrg-C2 gene. Five of six rabbit Tcrg-V gene segments belonged to the same family and displayed similarity to five productive human Tcrg-V1 family genes as well as the mouse Tcrg-V5 gene. The remaining rabbit Tcrg-V gene segment displayed similarity to the human Tcrg-V3 gene. Both rabbit Tcrg-J gene segments displayed similarity to the human Tcrg-J2.1 and 2.3, respectively. These findings suggested that the genomic organization of rabbit Tcrg genes is more similar to that of human than of mouse Tcrg genes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Isono
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seto
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002460:Cell Line; D015334:Gene Rearrangement, gamma-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D011817:Rabbits / Q000235:genetics*; D016692:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D016692:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta