title: Cloning and characterization of the non-catalytic heavy chain of mouse complement factor I gene: structure comparison with the human homologue.
abstract: The gene sequence encoding the non-catalytic heavy chain of mouse complement factor I (mCFI) was cloned and its exon-intron organization and domain structure characterized. The genomic organization of mCFI differs in several aspects from its human homologue (hCFI). The intron sizes are remarkably different. Exons 2 and 4 in mCFI are larger than their counterparts in hCFI by 9 bp and 6 bp respectively. Whereas the diversity (D) region of hCFI is encoded by two exons (exon 7 or hD2 and exon 8 or hD4), this region in mCFI is encoded by three exons; exon 6A or mD1 (located at the 3'-end of the LDLr A2 domain), exon 7 or mD2 and exon 8, an extended exon (56 bp) composed of mD3, fused upstream of mD4. In contrast, hCFI lacks D1 and D3 subregions and exon 8 in hCFI consists of only hD4, 36 bp in length. Thus the heavy chain of mCFI is organized into 10 exons compared to 9 exons in hCFI.
authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada.
authors: Y S
authors: YS
authors: Yun
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Goldberger
authors: J O
authors: JO
authors: Minta
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017244:Complement Factor I / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D019281:Dimerization; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D017244:Complement Factor I