Genes and pseudogenes in a reiterated rat tRNA gene cluster.
AUTOR(ES)
Rosen, A
RESUMO
A 13.4 kb rat genomic DNA fragment containing two related tRNA gene clusters was isolated from a rat lambda recombinant and analyzed for gene arrangement and nucleotide sequence. One cluster was found to contain a tRNALeuCUG gene while the second contained a tRNALeuCUA pseudogene with multiple base substitutions. The tRNALeu gene was found to possess an intact coding region and a functional transcription termination signal at the 3' end as demonstrated by in vitro transcription and processing of precursors to mature size tRNA. The first tRNA gene cluster was found to contain in addition to tRNALeu, three other transcribable genes coding for tRNAAspGAC(U), tRNAGlyGGA(G) and tRNAGluGAG; the second cluster contained in addition to tRNALeu pseudogene, the tRNAAsp tRNAGly and tRNAGlu genes. Examination of flanking sequences of the corresponding tRNA genes in the two clusters shows no homology at the 5' ends and partial conservation of sequences at the 3'-end region. Genomic rat DNA blot hybridizations show that the tRNALeu gene is distributed together with the tRNAAsp, tRNAGly and tRNAGlu on a 10 fold repeat of 3.2 kb EcoRI fragment.
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