A new mouse TCR V gamma gene that shows remarkable evolutionary conservation.

AUTOR(ES)

Pelkonen, J

RESUMO

We have identified a new mouse T-cell receptor V gamma gene segment, V gamma 4.4, which frequently undergoes rearrangements in AKR thymomas, and at a lower frequency in fetal thymocytes. V gamma 4.4 is the fourth and the most 5' V gene segment in the gamma 4 cluster, being 7.3 kb from V gamma 4.3. Surprisingly, V gamma 4.4 is more homologous to eight human V gamma genes than to the other mouse V gamma genes. It has only a 38% nucleotide and 21% amino acid sequence homology to the most homologous mouse V gamma gene (V gamma 4.1), whereas these homologies to the human V gamma 8 gene are as high as 68% and 48% respectively.

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