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Hox-1.6: a mouse homeo-box-containing gene member of the Hox-1 complex.

The EMBO journal ·Vol. 6 ·No. 10 ·1987-10-00 ·Pages 2977-86

Baron A, Featherstone MS, Hill RE, Hall A, Galliot B, Duboule D

Abstract

Hox-1.6, a mouse homeo-box-containing gene member of the Hox-1 complex, is described. The Hox-1.6 homeo-box shows more divergence than the other members of the complex with the Drosophila Antennapedia-like homeo-box class. This previously undescribed gene was studied with respect to its transcription pattern and was found to be expressed during mouse fetal development in an intestine-specific manner in adults, and in tumours or cell types exhibiting early endodermal-like differentiation. The study of embryonic partial Hox-1.6 cDNA clones revealed structural features common to other Drosophila and vertebrate homeo-box-containing genes, but also indicated that Hox-1.6 transcripts might display splicing patterns more complex than those known for other vertebrate homeo-genes. One of these cDNA clones contains a rather short open reading frame which would encode a protein of approximately 14.5 kd. The use of this clone as a probe for S1 nuclease mapping confirmed that different Hox-1.6 transcripts were present both in embryonic total RNA and in embryonal carcinoma cell cytoplasmic RNA. These various transcripts are probably generated by an alternative splicing mechanism and may thus encode a set of related proteins.

MeSH Terms
Amino Acid Sequence Animals Base Sequence Cosmids DNA/analysis Drosophila/genetics Embryo, Mammalian Embryo, Nonmammalian Genes, Homeobox Genetic Variation Mice/genetics Molecular Sequence Data RNA Splicing Transcription, Genetic
Chemicals
DNA
Authors & Affiliations
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Baron A
Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire et de Génie Génétique de l'INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
Featherstone M S
Hill R E
Hall A
Galliot B
Duboule D
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Article Info
Journal
The EMBO journal
Abbr.
EMBO J
ISSN
0261-4189
Published
1987-10-00
Pages
2977-86
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
8208664
PMCID
PMC553734
Subset
IM
Databases
GENBANK
M15926, M15927, M15928, M20214, M20215, M20216, X06023, X06024
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