Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant.
The bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) system is widely used in isolation of large genomic fragments of interest. Construction of a routine BAC library requires several months for picking clones and arraying BACs into superpools in order to employ 4D-PCR to screen positive BACs, which might be ti...
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doaj-627bfdbf4747470fb79280b34265dcb52020-11-25T02:22:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0173e3215410.1371/journal.pone.0032154Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant.Qing YeKe HeShao-Ying WuQiu-Hong WanThe bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) system is widely used in isolation of large genomic fragments of interest. Construction of a routine BAC library requires several months for picking clones and arraying BACs into superpools in order to employ 4D-PCR to screen positive BACs, which might be time-consuming and laborious. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a cluster of genes involved in the vertebrate immune system, and the classical avian MHC-B locus is a minimal essential one, occupying a 100-kb genomic region. In this study, we constructed a more effective reverse-4D BAC library for the golden pheasant, which first creates sub-libraries and then only picks clones of positive sub-libraries, and identified several MHC clones within thirty days. The full sequencing of a 97-kb reverse-4D BAC demonstrated that the golden pheasant MHC-B locus contained 20 genes and showed good synteny with that of the chicken. The notable differences between these two species were the numbers of class II B loci and NK genes and the inversions of the TAPBP gene and the TAP1-TAP2 region. Furthermore, the inverse TAP2-TAP1 was unique in the golden pheasant in comparison with that of chicken, turkey, and quail. The newly defined genomic structure of the golden pheasant MHC will give an insight into the evolutionary history of the avian MHC.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3293878?pdf=render |
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Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant. |
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Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant. |
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Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant. |
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Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant. |
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Isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential MHC B locus from a new reverse-4D BAC library of the golden pheasant. |
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isolation of a 97-kb minimal essential mhc b locus from a new reverse-4d bac library of the golden pheasant. |
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The bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) system is widely used in isolation of large genomic fragments of interest. Construction of a routine BAC library requires several months for picking clones and arraying BACs into superpools in order to employ 4D-PCR to screen positive BACs, which might be time-consuming and laborious. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a cluster of genes involved in the vertebrate immune system, and the classical avian MHC-B locus is a minimal essential one, occupying a 100-kb genomic region. In this study, we constructed a more effective reverse-4D BAC library for the golden pheasant, which first creates sub-libraries and then only picks clones of positive sub-libraries, and identified several MHC clones within thirty days. The full sequencing of a 97-kb reverse-4D BAC demonstrated that the golden pheasant MHC-B locus contained 20 genes and showed good synteny with that of the chicken. The notable differences between these two species were the numbers of class II B loci and NK genes and the inversions of the TAPBP gene and the TAP1-TAP2 region. Furthermore, the inverse TAP2-TAP1 was unique in the golden pheasant in comparison with that of chicken, turkey, and quail. The newly defined genomic structure of the golden pheasant MHC will give an insight into the evolutionary history of the avian MHC. |
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