title: Diversity of the Tcra-V3 gene family in BALB/c mice.
abstract: Southern analysis of Eco RI-digested BALB/c liver DNA reveals four T-cell receptor Tcra-V3-hybridizing DNA fragments, which are of sizes 18.0, 12.0, 8.0, and 2.1 kilobases, respectively. These four Tcra-V3-hybridizing genomic DNA were isolated from a BALB/c genomic library. Restriction and Southern analysis of the genomic DNA clones showed that each of the Tcra-V3-hybridizing Eco RI DNA fragments harbors only a single Tcra-V3 gene. The DNA sequences of coding regions of the four Tcra-V3 family members were determined. These sequences show very limited divergence from one another. Comparisons of BALB/c Tcra-V3 sequences with published Tcra-V3 sequences expressed in different strains of mice reveal substantial allelic polymorphism. Sequence similarity searches retrieved homologous rat, cattle, and human genes. The scarcity of coding sequence divergence among members of the Tcra-V3 family and the more substantial allelic polymorphism may be general features of the T-cell receptor V-alpha chain-encoding gene families.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunopathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Myrick
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tanigawa
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D015723:Gene Library; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C / Q000235:genetics*; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / Q000235:genetics*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins