Exon skipping in human beta-casein. |
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Authors: | R S Menon Y F Chang K F Jeffers R G Ham |
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Institution: | Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309. |
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Abstract: | Earlier amino acid alignments of mature beta-caseins showed that the human protein was shifted in alignment relative to other species, with amino acid deletions in the N-terminal region and others inserted in the C-terminal region. Our alignment, based on cDNA sequences and their translation products, has shown that the amino acid deletions correspond exactly to exon 3 in the other species. Cloning and sequencing of a segment of the human beta-casein gene between exons 2 and 4 revealed the presence of an intact exon 3 sequence in the gene. An interruption of the polypyrimidine tract adjacent to the 5' end of exon 3 sequence may account for the omission of the exon from human beta-casein mRNA. |
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