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ArticleGenome research2001

Comparative DNA sequence analysis of mouse and human protocadherin gene clusters.

Q Wu, T Zhang, J F Cheng, Y Kim, J Grimwood, J Schmutz, M Dickson, J P Noonan, M Q Zhang, R M Myers and 1 more

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Article in Genome research, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 121 papers.

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  15. A TIAM1-TRIM28 complex mediates epigenetic silencing of protocadherins to promote migration of lung cancer cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  16. A Unique Role for Protocadherin γC3 in Promoting Dendrite Arborization through an Axin1-Dependent Mechanism.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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11 authors.

Q WuDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
T Zhang
J F Cheng
Y Kim
J Grimwood
J Schmutz
M Dickson
J P Noonan
M Q Zhang
R M Myers
T Maniatis

Funding

PROTEIN CODING GENES IN THE HUMAN GENOMER01HG001696 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI ZHANG, MICHAEL Q · 1997 to 2010
$5.1M
MECHANISMS OF PREMRNA SPLICINGR01GM042231 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MANIATIS, THOMAS P · 1989 to 2001
$995k
NHGRI NIH HHS HG01696NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG001696NIGMS NIH HHS GM42231NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM042231
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genomic organization of the human protocadherin alpha, beta, and gamma gene clusters (designated Pcdh alpha [gene symbol PCDHA], Pcdh beta [PCDHB], and Pcdh gamma [PCDHG]) is remarkably similar to that of immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes. The extracellular and transmembrane domains of each protocadherin protein are encoded by an unusually large "variable" region exon, while the intracellular domains are encoded by three small "constant" region exons located downstream from a tandem array of variable region exons. Here we report the results of a comparative DNA sequence analysis of the orthologous human (750 kb) and mouse (900 kb) protocadherin gene clusters. The organization of Pcdh alpha and Pcdh gamma gene clusters in the two species is virtually identical, whereas the mouse Pcdh beta gene cluster is larger and contains more genes than the human Pcdh beta gene cluster. We identified conserved DNA sequences upstream of the variable region exons, and found that these sequences are more conserved between orthologs than between paralogs. Within this region, there is a highly conserved DNA sequence motif located at about the same position upstream of the translation start codon of each variable region exon. In addition, the variable region of each gene cluster contains a rich array of CpG islands, whose location corresponds to the position of each variable region exon. These observations are consistent with the proposal that the expression of each variable region exon is regulated by a distinct promoter, which is highly conserved between orthologous variable region exons in mouse and human.

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AnimalsBase CompositionCadherinsCarrier ProteinsChromosome MappingConserved SequenceCpG IslandsEvolution, MolecularExonsGenetic VariationHumansMiceMolecular Sequence DataMultigene FamilyPhylogenyProtein PrecursorsCadherinsCarrier ProteinsProtein PrecursorsTranscription Factors

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PMCPMC311048

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