PMID: 9432008Feb 7, 1998Paper

The histone H1 genes of the dipteran insect, Chironomus thummi, fall under two divergent classes and encode proteins with distinct intranuclear distribution and potentially different functions

European Journal of Biochemistry
L TrieschmannU Grossbach

Abstract

Four histone H1 genes of the midge, Chironomus thummi piger, and three H1 genes of the subspecies C. thummi thummi have been cloned and assigned to the four different H1 proteins from C. thummi larvae. Together with an earlier cloned H1 gene from C. thummi thummi [Hankeln, T. & Schmidt, E. R. (1991) Chromosoma 101, 25-31], these genes probably constitute the complete complement of H1 genes in both subspecies. They were found to fall under two classes that differ remarkably in their gene copy numbers, genomic organization, structure of flanking sequences, codon usage, and expression during embryonic development, and that encode H1 proteins of divergent structure. Histone H1 I-1 contains an inserted sequence, KAPKAPKAPKSPKAE in C. thummi piger, and KAPKAPKSPKAE in C. thummi thummi, that is lacking in the other H1 variants, H1 II-1, H1 II-2, and H1 III-1. In the immediate neighbourhood to the inserted sequence, a substitution in the H1 I-1 protein sequence dramatically enhances the potential to form a reversed turn. In early development, H1 I-1 is expressed at a higher rate than the other H1 genes. The transcripts have a size of about 1 kb; in addition, the H1 I-1 gene exhibited two minor transcripts of about 2.5 and > 3 kb size i...Continue Reading

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