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Genomic organisation of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss TGF-beta
1Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Abstract:
The genomic organisation of Oncorhnchus mykiss TGF-beta has been determined through the generation of contiguous clones by PCR. The O. mykiss TGF-beta gene is approximately 3.4 Kb in length and consists of 7 coding exons with no introns in the 5'-UTR. Whilst this is the same number of exons found in TGF-beta genes of amphibians, birds and mammals, in the O. mykiss gene intron 2 of other vertebrates is absent and an additional intron is present at the 3' end of the molecule, splitting exon 7 of the other known TGF-beta genes into two exons (trout exons 6 and 7). Comparison of exon sizes in the coding region support the suggestion that the Xenopus TGF-beta5 and trout TGF-beta sequences are the forerunners of TGF-beta1. Conservation of exons coding for the mature TGF-beta peptide is relatively high (63-73% identity) but other exons show lower identities (37-58%). Comparison of the TGF-beta intron sequences reveals that in general the O. mykiss introns are considerably shorter than the avian homologs. The impact of the teleost TGF-beta gene organisation on theories of the gene evolution of this cytokine family are discussed.
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