PMID: 2120458Sep 1, 1990Paper

Functional analysis of the 3'-terminal part of the Balbiani ring 2.2 gene by interspecies sequence comparison

Journal of Molecular Evolution
F J SilvaJ E Edström

Abstract

An interspecies comparison was made between the 3' ends of Balbiani ring genes from Chironomus. The comparison was focused on the BR2.2 gene, and a part at the 3' end from Chironomus pallidivittatus (which included also a segment of the gene core) was cloned. Its sequence, and other previously published BR sequences from this species and from Chironomus tentans were used in the analysis. The 3' parts of these repetitive genes can be divided into a region belonging to the core of the genes followed by a terminal region. In the core region the repeats (each of which consists of a constant part and a subrepeated part) are highly similar and the constant parts show little interspecies differentiation. Furthermore, the two parts of the repeats are units in an evolutionary and probably also functional sense. The terminal region contains modified constant units, usually isolated between acidic so-called cys regions, the whole arrangement lying upstream of an intron toward a 3'-terminal exon. Most of the modified constant units are mosaics in rates of evolution with stable outer quarters bordering to equally stable cys regions and a central half with a very high rate of evolution. One of the terminal units, present only in the BR2.2 ge...Continue Reading

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