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ArticleThe EMBO journal1988

A survey of the alpha-tubulin gene family in chicken: unexpected sequence heterogeneity in the polypeptides encoded by five expressed genes.

L F Pratt, D W Cleveland

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Article in The EMBO journal, 1988. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Are tubulin isotypes functionally significant.Molecular biology of the cell · 1993
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  5. Heritable retroviral transgenes are highly expressed in chickens.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1991
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

L F PrattDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
D W Cleveland
Johns Hopkins University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To characterize the alpha-tubulin gene family in chicken, we have isolated five chicken alpha-tubulin genes and determined the majority of the sequences of the encoded polypeptides. Three of these (c alpha 3, c alpha 5/6 and c alpha 8) encode novel, expressed alpha-tubulins that have not previously been analyzed, whereas one gene segment is a pseudogene and another appears capable of encoding a functional subunit (although we were unable to document its expression in a survey of chicken tissues). Together with two additional expressed, functional alpha-tubulins reported earlier, we conclude that the chicken alpha-tubulin family is comprised of at least five functional genes whose polypeptide products are substantially more heterogeneous than found in preceding analyses of vertebrate alpha-tubulins. Comparison of the amino acid sequences reveals that the five polypeptides are between 96 and 83% identical, with the extreme carboxy-terminal residues representing a highly heterogeneous variable domain. Since some alpha-tubulins undergo cyclic post-translational removal and readdition of a carboxy-terminal tyrosine, the notable sequence divergence in this domain suggests that individual tubulins probably participate to different extents in this modification cycle.

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GenesAllelesAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceChick EmbryoChickensDNAGenetic VariationMolecular Sequence DataPseudogenesTranscription, GeneticTubulinDNATubulin

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PMID3267229
PMCPMC454418
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