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ArticleDevelopmental and comparative immunology2008

Immunoglobulin light chain (IgL) genes in zebrafish: Genomic configurations and inversional rearrangements between (V(L)-J(L)-C(L)) gene clusters.

Anastasia M Zimmerman, Gene Yeo, Kerstin Howe, Benjamin J Maddox, Lisa A Steiner

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Article in Developmental and comparative immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Anastasia M ZimmermanDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. zimmermana@cofc.edu >
Gene Yeo
Kerstin Howe
Benjamin J Maddox
Lisa A Steiner

Funding

Wellcome Trust 077198
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In mammals, Immunoglobulin light chain (IgL) are localized to two chromosomal regions (designated kappa and lambda). Here we report a genome-wide survey of IgL genes in the zebrafish revealing (V(L)-J(L)-C(L)) clusters spanning 5 separate chromosomes. To elucidate IgL loci present in the zebrafish genome assembly (Zv6), conventional sequence similarity searches and a novel scanning approach based on recombination signal sequence (RSS) motifs were applied. RT-PCR with zebrafish cDNA was used to confirm annotations, evaluate VJ-rearrangement possibilities and show that each chromosomal locus is expressed. In contrast to other vertebrates in which IgL exon usage has been studied, inversional rearrangement between (V(L)-J(L)-C(L)) clusters were found. Inter-cluster rearrangements may convey a selective advantage for editing self-reactive receptors and poise zebrafish by virtue of their extensive numbers of V(L), J(L) and C(L) to have greater potential for immunoglobulin gene shuffling than traditionally studied mice and human models.

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Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light ChainGenes, Immunoglobulin Light ChainAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsChromosomesImmunoglobulin Constant RegionsImmunoglobulin Joining RegionImmunoglobulin Light ChainsImmunoglobulin Variable RegionMolecular Sequence DataMultigene FamilyPhylogenySequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNAZebrafishImmunoglobulin Constant RegionsImmunoglobulin Joining RegionImmunoglobulin Light ChainsImmunoglobulin Variable Region

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