Interruption of an alpha-satellite array by a short member of the KpnI family of interspersed, highly repeated monkey DNA sequences.

Thayer, Ronald E.; Singer, Maxine

doi:10.1128/mcb.3.6.967

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“…Southern blots indicated that the inserted element in the pa7 clone is homologous to three of the "consensus" Kpn I subclones and, therefore, is a member of the Kpn I family. (12). Second, and perhaps more interesting, the sequences that are present appear to be permuted or scrambled relative to the "normal" consensus arrangement exemplified by Kpn /.…”

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“…Therefore any sequences interrupting satellite DNA might well represent mobile elements that were inserted in recent evolutionary time. I and others have previously reported the isolation of satellite DNA segments carrying such nonsatellite sequences (10,(12)(13)(14).…”

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“…Third, a significant open reading frame of 675 bases is detected. (5,8,11,12). This laboratory has isolated and characterized human DNA segments carrying unusual monomeric domains of asatellite sequence (13).…”

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“…Electron microscope heteroduplex studies comparing randomly cloned Kpn I elements suggest that their sequences are generally colinear and at least somewhat wellconserved, within the detectable limits of this technique (5). But whole-genome Southern blots and restriction analyses of individual elements have shown extensive restriction site polymorphism and significant size differences among elements (5,8,11,12).…”

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Rearranged sequences of a human Kpn I element.

Potter¹

1984

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The complete nucleotide sequence of a human Kpn I element inserted into a-satellite DNA is presented.This sequence reveals several features of interest. First, a large block of DNA normally associated with Kpn I elements has been deleted. Second, the order of the remaining sequences is permuted in a manner that cannot be accounted for by simple inversion. Third, a significant open reading frame of 675 bases is detected. (5,8,11,12). This laboratory has isolated and characterized human DNA segments carrying unusual monomeric domains of asatellite sequence (13). Of particular interest are the nonsatellite sequences that have been found occasionally interrupting the long tandem arrays of satellites (10,13,14). Because satellite sequences undergo continual rectification by unequal crossover (15) and gene conversion, it seems possible that the interrupting sequences represent mobile elements that have inserted into satellite relatively recently in evolutionary time. In this study I focused on a part of the pa7 clone, which has been shown to carry a nonsatellite sequence inserted into a-satellite DNA (13). The invading sequence is shown here to be an unusual Kpn I element.The Kpn I elements are abundant (about 30,000 copies per haploid genome) and particularly interesting structurally. No terminal repeats have yet been found, making them unlike most transposable elements (16,17), and their variable constructions include deletions and inversions (11). In this paper the complete nucleotide sequence of an element inserted into human a-satellite DNA is presented. The sequence reveals the presence of a large sequence permutation, thereby describing yet another type of polymorphism found in the Kpn I family of primate dispersed repetitive elements. Moreover, a large open reading frame is found, suggesting a coding function. MATERIALS AND METHODSEnzymes and polynucleotide linkers were purchased from New England BioLabs, and isotopes were from New England Nuclear. DNA Sequence Determination. DNA sequence was determined by using the partial chemical cleavage method of Maxam and Gilbert (18). DNA was labeled at the 3' end with the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase 1 and at the 5' end by polynucleotide kinase.Subcloning. The 4.0-kilobase (kb) Sal I-EcoRI DNA segment carrying a Kpn I element with flanking a-satellite DNA was purified from the previously described pa7 clone (13) and ligated into pBR322 DNA cut with Sal I and EcoRI.In order to facilitate the sequence determination, two experiments designed to introduce restriction sites at useful locations were performed. In the first experiment the subclone was opened at the Bgl II site and then treated for various periods with the exonuclease BAL-31. Progress of the digestion was followed by gel electrophoresis. Cla I linkers were blunt-end-ligated to the ends and cleaved by Cla I, and the molecules were recircularized by ligation. After transformation of Escherichia coli HB101 and selection on ampicillin plates, random colonies were used for "miniprep" (19) and restrict...

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Rearranged sequences of a human Kpn I element.

Potter¹

1984

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Recently, DNA sequences from portions of the monkey LI (Kpn I) family have been published (22,39). The available sequence includes a region that is homologous to the sequence from LJMd-4 and other published LJMd sequences (see ref The values for "possible sites" were determined by examining all three possible base substitutions at each position in the sequence and determining whether the altered codon represents a silent (S) or replacement (R) substitution.…”

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A large interspersed repeat found in mouse DNA contains a long open reading frame that evolves as if it encodes a protein.

Martin¹,

Voliva²,

Burton³

et al. 1984

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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DNA sequence analysis of a region contained within a large, interspersed repetitive family of mice reveals a long open reading frame. This sequence extends 978 base pairs between two stop codons, creating a reading frame that is open for 326 amino acids. The DNA sequence in this region is conserved between three distantly related Mus species, as well as between mouse and monkey, in a manner that is characteristic of regions undergoing selection for protein function.Interspersed repetitive elements are ubiquitous in the DNA of higher eukaryotes. They are found in organisms as diverse as frogs (1), sea urchins (2), flies (3), birds (4), rodents (5), and humans (6); nevertheless, the reason for their existence is not understood. Hypotheses concerning their contribution to the normal patterns of gene expression in differentiated cells range from a model in which they are seen as the main perpetrators of regulation (7,8) (11,16,20) and primates (19,(21)(22)(23) 2308The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact.

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Penetrance and low concordance in monozygotic twins in disease: Are they the results of alterations in somatic genomes?

Kastern

Kryspin-Sørensen²

1988

Molecular Reproduction Devel

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Interruption of an alpha-satellite array by a short member of the KpnI family of interspersed, highly repeated monkey DNA sequences.

Cited by 50 publications

References 23 publications

Rearranged sequences of a human Kpn I element.

Rearranged sequences of a human Kpn I element.

A large interspersed repeat found in mouse DNA contains a long open reading frame that evolves as if it encodes a protein.

Penetrance and low concordance in monozygotic twins in disease: Are they the results of alterations in somatic genomes?

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