T cell receptor gamma and delta gene junctional sequences in SCID mice: excessive P nucleotide insertion.
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- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 174 (4) , 769-773
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.174.4.769
Abstract
The severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mutation has been postulated to affect a V(D)J recombinase activity involved in coding joint formation. Analysis of 38 joints from 34 distinct sequences of normally rearranged T cell receptor (TCR) gamma and delta genes from adult, SCID thymocytes reveals coding joints with an increased number of P nucleotides. One-third of P sequences are greater than or equal to 4 nucleotides in length and P elements of up to 15 bases are observed. This suggests that the SCID defect deregulates P nucleotide addition. Consequently, essential V(D)J recombination intermediates may seldom be generated.Keywords
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