title: Precise sequence complementarity between yeast chromosome ends and two classes of just-subtelomeric sequences.
abstract: The terminal regions (last 20 kb) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes universally contain blocks of precise sequence similarity to other chromosome terminal regions. The left and right terminal regions are distinct in the sense that the sequence similarities between them are reverse complements. Direct sequence similarity occurs between the left terminal regions and also between the right terminal regions, but not between any left ends and right ends. With minor exceptions the relationships range from 80% to 100% match within blocks. The regions of similarity are composites of familiar and unfamiliar repeated sequences as well as what could be considered "single-copy" (or better "two-copy") sequences. All terminal regions were compared with all other chromosomes, forward and reverse complement, and 768 comparisons are diagrammed. It appears there has been an extensive history of sequence exchange or copying between terminal regions. The subtelomeric sequences fall into two classes. Seventeen of the chromosome ends terminate with the Y' repeat, while 15 end with the 800-nt "X2" repeats just adjacent to the telomerase simple repeats. The just-subterminal repeats are very similar to each other except that chromosome 1 right end is more divergent.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 101 Dahlia Avenue, Corona del Mar, CA 92625, USA. rbritten@etna.bio.uci.edu
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Britten
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015825:Chromosomes, Fungal; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004271:DNA, Fungal