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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 4.

Usage of the rhesus macaque TRBV genes by expressed TCRβ sequences.

Rhesus
macaque gene
Highest % usage
by a TCRβ
sequence
Alignment
length1
TRBV2-1 100 182
TRBV2-2 99.1 116
TRBV2-3 100 185
TRBV3-1 100 274
TRBV3-2 100 278
TRBV3-3 100 179
TRBV3-4 100 278
TRBV4-1 100 167
TRBV4-2 100 282
TRBV4-3 100 273
TRBV5-1 98.7 232
TRBV5-3 92.1 76
TRBV5-4 98.9 281
TRBV5-6 98.9 272
TRBV5-7 98.1 159
TRBV5-8 97.9 280
TRBV5-9 98.7 307
TRBV5-10 100 189
TRBV6-1 100 277
TRBV6-2 100 219
TRBV6-3 100 274
TRBV7-2 98.9 182
TRBV7-3 98.7 297
TRBV7-4 99.3 281
TRBV7-5 98.6 289
TRBV7-6 99.7 287
TRBV7-7 97.1 68
TRBV7-9 97.9 290
TRBV7-10 98.6 284
TRBV9-1 99.4 180
TRBV10-1 96.7 276
TRBV10-2 100 279
TRBV10-3 99.2 238
TRBV11-1 99.6 276
TRBV11-2 98.6 282
TRBV11-3 98.9 282
TRBV12-2 99.3 277
TRBV12-3 98.8 168
TRBV12-4 95.9 74
TRBV13-1 98.9 182
TRBV14-1 99.7 294
TRBV15-1 99.2 262
TRBV16-1 94.6 74
TRBV18-1 97.6 167
TRBV19-1 100 279
TRBV20-1 99.5 197
TRBV21-1 98.2 274
TRBV23-1 100 298
TRBV24-1 97.7 214
TRBV25-1 98.5 268
TRBV27-1 100 281
TRBV28-1 99.2 119
TRBV29-1 100 282
TRBV30-1 98.2 170
1

The alignment length between the TRBV gene and the TCRβ sequence is mostly determined by the length of the TCRβ sequence to the 5’ end of the CDR3.