Existence of four acetylcholinesterase genes in the nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae1
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- 13 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 424 (3) , 279-284
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00191-4
Abstract
Three genes, ace‐1, ace‐2 and ace‐3, respectively located on chromosomes X, I and II, were reported to encode acetylcholinesterases (AChEs) of classes A, B and C in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We have previously cloned and sequenced ace‐1 in the two related species C. elegans and C. briggsae. We report here partial sequences of ace‐2 (encoding class B) and of two other ace sequences located in close proximity on chromosome II in C. elegans and C. briggsae. These two sequences are provisionally named ace‐x and ace‐y, because it is not possible at the moment to establish which of these two genes corresponds to ace‐3. Ace‐x and ace‐y are transcribed in vivo as shown by RT‐PCR and they are likely to be included in a single operon.Keywords
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