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. 1983 Oct 25;11(20):7205–7214. doi: 10.1093/nar/11.20.7205

The sequences of rabbit kappa light chains of b4 and b5 allotypes differ more in their constant regions than in their 3' untranslated regions.

K E Bernstein, R M Skurla Jr, R G Mage
PMCID: PMC326455  PMID: 6314281

Abstract

We report the sequence of a cDNA clone encoding the entire variable and constant regions of a rabbit kappa light chain of b5 allotype. The deduced amino acid sequence of the variable region (positions 1-95) is 86% homologous to that of a b4 light chain protein [BS-1) (1) but the b4 and b5 constant regions are only 74% homologous. Comparison of this DNA sequence to that of a cDNA clone encoding a b4 constant region shows that the kappa allotypes b4 and b5 have diverged significantly more in their coding region than in the 3' untranslated regions (86% vs 96% nucleotide sequence homologies). This implies either a function for the 3' untranslated region with evolutionary pressures to conserve or an accelerated divergence of the coding regions.

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