Assignment of the mouse alpha A-crystallin structural gene to chromosome 17

alpha A2-crystallin is one of the major water-soluble proteins of the mammalian lens. Using a cloned cDNA probe coding for mouse alpha A2-crystallin and Southern blot hybridization, DNA isolated from a panel of somatic cell hybrids prepared from mouse fibroblasts or mouse spleen cells fused with Chinese hamster fibroblasts was probed to determine the chromosomal localization of the alpha A2-crystallin structural gene. We have located this gene on mouse chromosome 17.