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. 1985 Jul;135(1):620-6.

Complete nucleotide sequence of the murine gamma 3 switch region and analysis of switch recombination sites in two gamma 3-expressing hybridomas

  • PMID: 2987353

Complete nucleotide sequence of the murine gamma 3 switch region and analysis of switch recombination sites in two gamma 3-expressing hybridomas

P Szurek et al. J Immunol. 1985 Jul.

Abstract

The heavy chain isotype switch is mediated by a DNA rearrangement between a donor switch region (usually mu) and a recipient switch region (gamma, epsilon, or alpha). Switch regions lie upstream of the appropriate heavy chain constant region gene and are composed of simple sequences repeated in tandem. It is not known to what extent the tandemly repeated sequences are important to the heavy chain switch recombination, and to what extent other features of switch region sequences might contribute to the switch process. We studied switches to the gamma 3 isotype by sequencing the entire gamma 3 switch region. This switch region is composed of forty-four 49 base pair units repeated in tandem. These repeated units share modest homology with the mu switch region repeated elements. Evolution of the gamma 3 switch region seems to involve insertions and deletions of the 49mer elements. We also molecularly cloned rearranged switch regions from two gamma 3-expressing hybridomas and determined the DNA sequences at the mu-gamma 3 recombination sites. We located these switch recombination sites within the germ-line gamma 3 switch region, as well as switch recombination sites from two myelomas. All four sites are found in the 5' one-third of the gamma 3 switch region. We discuss some additional trends in the sequence data near these four recombination sites.

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