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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 261, Issue 2, 552-557, Jan, 1986

Sequence of the chicken delta 2 crystallin gene and its intergenic spacer. Extreme homology with the delta 1 crystallin gene

JM Nickerson, EF Wawrousek, T Borras, JW Hawkins, BL Norman, DR Filpula, JW Nagle, AH Ally and J Piatigorsky

The chicken delta-crystallin locus consists of 2 nonallelic, tandemly arranged genes (5'-delta 1-delta 2-3'). Only the delta 1 gene is known to be expressed. The nucleotide sequence for the delta 1 gene has been reported recently (Nickerson, J.M., Wawrousek, E.F., Hawkins, J.W., Wakil, A.S., Wistow, G.J., Thomas, G., Norman, B.L., and Piatigorsky, J. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 9100-9105; Ohno, M., Sakamoto, H., Yasuda, K., Okada, T.S., and Shimura, Y. (1985) Nucleic Acids Res. 13, 1593-1606). We now report the sequence for the delta 2 gene and the 4- kilobase intergenic spacer between the two delta-crystallin genes. The delta 2 gene, like the delta 1 gene, has 17 exons and 16 introns. The homologous exons are remarkably similar: exons 3-17 are identical in size between delta 1 and delta 2, and the sequence homology ranges from 70% (exon 2) to 100% (exons 7, 12, and 15), with the remaining exons having 89-98% identity between the delta 1 and delta 2 genes. Consequently, the encoded delta 2 polypeptide is 91% identical to the delta 1 polypeptide. Considerable similarity also exists between homologous introns of delta 1 and delta 2, with most of the differences accounted for by insertions and/or deletions. The presence of a TATA box, consensus splice junctions (almost identical to the delta 1 gene), lariat branch sequences, and a polyadenylation signal strengthen the possibility that delta 2 is a functional gene.
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