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タイトル: | Heterochromatin Blocks Constituting the Entire Short Arms of Acrocentric Chromosomes of Azara's Owl Monkey: Formation Processes Inferred From Chromosomal Locations. |
著者: | Prakhongcheep, Ornjira Chaiprasertsri, Nampech Terada, Shoko Hirai, Yuriko Srikulnath, Kornsorn Hirai, Hirohisa Koga, Akihiko |
著者名の別形: | 古賀, 章彦 |
キーワード: | chromosomal evolution constitutive heterochromatin tandem repeat amplification acrocentric chromosome |
発行日: | 11-Jun-2013 |
出版者: | Oxford University Press |
誌名: | DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes |
巻: | 20 |
号: | 5 |
開始ページ: | 461 |
終了ページ: | 470 |
抄録: | Centromeres and telomeres of higher eukaryotes generally contain repetitive sequences, which often form pericentric or subtelomeric heterochromatin blocks. C-banding analysis of chromosomes of Azara's owl monkey, a primate species, showed that the short arms of acrocentric chromosomes consist mostly or solely of constitutive heterochromatin. The purpose of the present study was to determine which category, pericentric, or subtelomeric is most appropriate for this heterochromatin, and to infer its formation processes. We cloned and sequenced its DNA component, finding it to be a tandem repeat sequence comprising 187-bp repeat units, which we named OwlRep. Subsequent hybridization analyses revealed that OwlRep resides in the pericentric regions of a small number of metacentric chromosomes, in addition to the short arms of acrocentric chromosomes. Further, in the pericentric regions of the acrocentric chromosomes, OwlRep was observed on the short-arm side only. This distribution pattern of OwlRep among chromosomes can be simply and sufficiently explained by assuming (i) OwlRep was transferred from chromosome to chromosome by the interaction of pericentric heterochromatin, and (ii) it was amplified there as subtelomeric heterochromatin. OwlRep carries several direct and inverted repeats within its repeat units. This complex structure may lead to a higher frequency of chromosome scission and may thus be a factor in the unique distribution pattern among chromosomes. Neither OwlRep nor similar sequences were found in the genomes of the other New World monkey species we examined, suggesting that OwlRep underwent rapid amplification after the divergence of the owl monkey lineage from lineages of the other species. |
著作権等: | © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Kazusa DNA Research Institute. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/179397 |
DOI(出版社版): | 10.1093/dnares/dst023 |
PubMed ID: | 23761219 |
出現コレクション: | 学術雑誌掲載論文等 |
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