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The nucleotide sequences of one constant (C), six variable (V), and two joining (J) gene segments coding for the rabbit T-cell receptor gamma chain (Tcrg) were determined by directly sequencing fragments amplified by the cassette-ligation mediated polymerase chain reaction. The Tcrg-C gene segment did not encode a cysteine residue for connection to the Tcr delta chain in the connecting region, and two variant forms of the Tcrg-C gene segment were generated by alternative splicing, like the human Tcrg-C2 gene. Five of six rabbit Tcrg-V gene segments belonged to the same family and displayed similarity to five productive human Tcrg-V1 family genes as well as the mouse Tcrg-V5 gene. The remaining rabbit Tcrg-V gene segment displayed similarity to the human Tcrg-V3 gene. Both rabbit Tcrg-J gene segments displayed similarity to the human Tcrg-J2.1 and 2.3, respectively. These findings suggested that the genomic organization of rabbit Tcrg genes is more similar to that of human than of mouse Tcrg genes.
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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GSDB, DDBJ, EMBL, and NCBI nucleotide sequence databases and have been assigned the accession numbers D38134-D38144 and D42090
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Isono, T., Kim, C.J. & Seto, A. Sequence and diversity of rabbit T-cell receptor gamma chain genes. Immunogenetics 41, 295–300 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00172154
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