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Sequences of immunoglobulin (Ig) cDNA clones of Xenopus laevis show that at least three different VH families are expressed in association with different JH elements and different isotypes of Ig constant regions. In genomic Southern blot analysis, the VH probes for each family hybridize to a distinct set of multiple DNA fragments. In contrast, the genomic JH elements and the IgM constant region gene are localized in a single DNA fragment of approximately 15 kb. Genomic VH elements contain regulatory sequences similar to those in VH genes of shark, fish and mammals and have a leader peptide sequence that contains an intron; they encode the VH region until residue 95 and have heptamer--23-bp--nonamer motifs similar to the rearrangement signal sequences (RSS) in all other vertebrate VH elements. The six genomic JH elements so far sequenced have a nonamer--23-bp--heptamer motif at their 5' end. These RSS motifs imply the existence of DH elements. The comparison of cDNA clones that contain similar constant regions but different VH regions or JH elements suggest rearrangement events. This is shown by Southern blot analysis of erythrocyte and B cell DNA with a JH probe. Thus, the overall organization of the Xenopus Ig gene locus is similar to that of mammals but strikingly different from shark.
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