Reptilian class I major histocompatibility complex genes reveal conserved elements in class I structure |
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Authors: | Dario Grossberger Peter Parham |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Cell Biology and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, 94305-5400 Stanford, CA, USA;(2) Department of Cell Biology, Sherman Fairchild Bldg., Stanford University, 94305-5400 Stanford, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | The polymerase chain reaction was used to isolate clones with class I major histocompatibility complex sequences from fish (carp), amphibian (axolotl), and two species of reptile (lizard and snake). The lizard and snake clones were used to isolate class I cDNA clones. All the sequence showed the expected evolutionary relatedness. The carp and axolotl clones and one lizard cDNA clone lacked the first systeine in the 3 domain which in other class I heavy chains forms an intradomain disulfide bond. A small number of amino acid residues are conserved in the class I heavy chain sequences from all five classes of vertebrates. In the first two domains they are symmetrically clustered and contribute to intra-and interdomain contacts. None of these invariant residues are at peptide-binding, T-cell receptor-interacting, or CD8-binding positions.The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers: A2, M81089; C4,M8109 M81092; S1, M81093; LC1, M81094; LC5, M81095; LC13, M81096; LC25, M81097; LC27, M81098; SCI, M81099; SC2, M81100. |
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