title: Peculiar gene organisation and incomplete splicing of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L) interleukin-1beta.
abstract: In this paper we describe the gene organisation of sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and the presence of incompletely spliced forms of this gene. Interestingly, the sea bass IL-1beta gene comprises five exons and four introns, thus being remarkably different from other known teleost and mammalian genes. The sizes of the introns were typically much shorter than in mammals and this feature, together with the loss of two introns, gave a much smaller gene than in mammals (2.7 vs 6.5-7.0kb). The 5'-end exon-intron organisation seems quite different in the known IL-1beta genes with three exons in human and carp, two in trout and only one in sea bass. The highest percentage of exon identity and similarity is between sea bass exon 4, trout exon 5, carp, mouse, chicken, pig and human exon 6. RT-PCR analysis revealed the presence of two incompletely spliced transcripts. Southern blot analysis suggests the presence of only one copy of IL-1beta gene in sea bass genome.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università della Tuscia, Largo dell'Università, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy. fbuono@unitus.it
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Buonocore
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prugnoli
authors.forename: Cinzia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Falasca
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Secombes
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scapigliati
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001492:Bass / Q000235:genetics*; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000235:genetics*; D007438:Introns; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012326:RNA Splicing; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1