The Balbiani ring 2 gene in Chironomus tentans is built from two types of tandemly arranged major repeat units with a common evolutionary origin
AUTOR(ES)
Wieslander, L.
RESUMO
The internal structure of the 37 kb long Balbiani ring 2 (BR 2) gene in Chironomus tentans has been studied by analysis of a collection of cloned cDNA sequences and in genomic Southern blot analysis with the cDNA sequences used as probes. The BR 2 gene contains two types of tandemly arranged major repeat units ˜200 bp long, represented in our study by the pCt 7 and the pCt 63 cDNA inserts. The pCt 7 major repeat units are arranged in one or possibly a few blocks and cover ˜10 kb of the gene; the pCt 63 units form one uninterrupted block, 22 kb in length. Genomic Southern blot hybridizations revealed a number of sequence variants of the pCt 7 major repeat unit. In contrast, the ˜100 copies of the pCt 63 major repeat unit seem to be almost identical. The pCt 7 major repeat unit, 180 bp in length, is organized in the same way as the previously described 215 bp long pCt 63 major repeat, i.e., it contains a repetitive and a non-repetitive part. Moreover, the two major repeat units show a high degree of sequence homology, indicating that the pCt 7 and pCt 63 sequence blocks within the Br 2 gene have evolved through stepwise amplification from a common ancestral sequence.
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