title: Novel alleles HLA-B*7802 and B*51022: evidence for convergency in the HLA-B5 family.
abstract: We have characterized two novel HLA-B alleles, B*7802 and B*51022. The Caucasian-derived variant B*7802 most resembles the African-derived variant B*7801, from which B*7802 differs by two nucleotides. Only one of these modifications, however, is translated: a tyrosine for aspartate substitution occurs at residue 74 in B*7802, while the second nucleotide difference reflects a proximal synonymous substitution in codon 23. A second variant, B*51022, differs synonymously only at codon 23 from B*51021. Comparative analysis of the B5 CREG demonstrates that other pairs of B5 alleles differ synonymously only at codon 23 or synonymously at codon 23 and non-synonymously at a second more distal location. Contrary to the genesis of like pairs of B5 alleles via introduction of coordinate yet distant mutagenic events onto a single B5 progenitor, we postulate that synonymously different B5 progenitor molecules, B5ATT and B5ATC, are evolving in convergence to generate homologous B5 allele pairs differing silently at codon 23. Our finding that B*7802 is a single amino acid away from complete convergence with B*7801 and that B*51022 and B*51021 are in complete convergence is exemplary of such evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Prilliman
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Steiner
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ellexson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hildebrand
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D005805:Genes, MHC Class I; D015235:HLA-B Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D015235:HLA-B Antigens; C035270:HLA-B5 antigen