The simple repeat poly(dT-dG).poly(dC-dA) common to eukaryotes is absent from eubacteria and archaebacteria and rare in protozoans |
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Authors: | Morris J; Kushner SR; Ivarie R |
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Institution: | Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens 30602. |
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Abstract: | Genomic DNA from a wide variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms has
been assayed for the simple repeat sequence poly(dT-dG).poly(dC-dA) by
Southern blotting and DNA slot blot hybridizations. Consistent with
findings of others, we have found the simple alternating sequence to be
present in multiple copies in all organisms in the animal kingdom (e.g.,
mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, insects, jellyfish,
nematodes). The TG element was also found in lower eukaryotes
(Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Neurospora crassa, and Dictyostelium discoideum)
and at a much lower frequency in protozoans (Oxytricha fallux and
Tetrahymena thermophila). The sequence was also repeated in high copy
number in a higher plant (Zea mays) as well as at very high levels in a
unicellular green alga (Chlamydomonas reinhardi). Although the copy number
of the repeat per haploid genome was generally proportional to genome size,
there was a greater-than-1,000-fold variation in the number of
(TG)25/100-kb genomic DNA. By contrast, no eu-or archaebacterium--including
Myxococcus xanthus, whose life cycle is very similar to that of the slime
mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and Halobacter volcanii, whose genome
contains other repeated sequences-- was found whose genomic DNA contained
this sequence in detectable amounts. A computer search also failed to find
the TG element in human mitochondrial DNA.
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