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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Immunol Cell Biol. 2009 Jun 9;87(7):546–553. doi: 10.1038/icb.2009.38

Table 3.

Comparison of the rhesus macaque TRBJ genes and their human homologues.

Gene nucleotide
sequence		 Exon nucleotide
sequence		 Exon amino acid
sequence2
Rhesus
macaque
gene		 Human gene
homologue		 Percent
identity		 Alignment
length1 		Percent
identity		 Alignment
length		 Percent
identity		 Alignment
length
TRBJ1-1 TRBJ1-1 98.7 76 97.9 48 93.3 15
TRBJ1-2 TRBJ1-2 92.1 76 91.7 48 86.7 15
TRBJ1-3 TRBJ1-3 94.9 78 92.0 50 87.5 16
TRBJ1-4 TRBJ1-4 98.7 79 100.0 51 100.0 16
TRBJ1-5 TRBJ1-5 94.9 78 92.0 50 87.5 16
TRBJ1-6 TRBJ1-6 97.5 81 96.2 53 100.0 17
TRBJ2-1 TRBJ2-1 97.4 78 96.0 50 100.0 16
TRBJ2-2 TRBJ2-2 93.7 79 90.2 51 87.5 16
TRBJ2-2P TRBJ2-2P 96.2 53 95.7 46 86.7 15
TRBJ2-3 TRBJ2-3 98.7 77 98.0 49 93.8 16
TRBJ2-4 TRBJ2-4 94.9 78 96.0 50 81.3 16
TRBJ2-5 TRBJ2-5 97.4 76 97.9 48 100.0 15
TRBJ2-6 TRBJ2-6 95.1 81 96.2 53 94.1 17
TRBJ2-7 TRBJ2-7 94.7 75 95.7 47 93.3 15
Average percent identity 96.1 95.4 92.3
1

The alignment length is the total length across both the aligned rhesus macaque and human gene/exon sequences.

2

The TRBJ exons were translated in the frame that yielded the characteristic FGXG or LGXG motif.