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. 1985 May;82(9):2890–2894. doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.9.2890

Evidence that polymorphism in the murine major histocompatibility complex may be generated by the assortment of subgene sequences.

C G Miyada, C Klofelt, A A Reyes, E McLaughlin-Taylor, R B Wallace
PMCID: PMC397672  PMID: 2581256

Abstract

The high degree of polymorphism found among the class I genes of the murine major histocompatibility complex (H-2) has led to the postulation that specific genetic mechanisms are responsible for their diversity. These same genetic mechanisms are probably responsible for the high spontaneous mutation frequency seen in H-2 alleles. The bml mutation of the H-2Kb gene has been shown to be 7 base pair changes over a 13 base pair region that result in three amino acid substitutions in the C1 domain of the protein product. The clustering of base-pair changes has suggested that the bm1 mutation resulted from a recombinational event analogous to gene conversion between the H-2Kb gene and a "donor" gene sequence. A 23-base oligonucleotide complementary to the bm1 mutant sequences was synthesized and used to probe genomic DNA restriction digests of the parental H-2b haplotype as well as other H-2 haplotypes. Our results indicate that a potential donor gene sequence is present in the genomes of all of the five mouse strains studied. Of eight tissues that were tested by blot-hybridization analysis, the potential donor gene sequences are transcribed only in the liver. Models for the generation of polymorphism among the H-2 class I genes via subgene rearrangements are proposed.

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