Faculty Research 1990 - 1999

Mouse minor satellite DNA genetically maps to the centromere and is physically linked to the proximal telomere.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Keywords

Animal, Blotting-Southern, Centromere, Chromosome-Mapping, DNA-Satellite: ge, Electrophoresis-Agar-Gel, Electrophoresis-Gel-Pulsed-Field, Genetic-Markers, Linkage-(Genetics), Mice: ge, Muridae: ge, Reading-Frames, Restriction-Fragment-Length-Polymorphisms, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Telomere, Translocation-(Genetics): ge

First Page

235

Last Page

241

JAX Source

Genomics 1991 Oct;11(2):235-41

Grant

GM18684

Abstract

As an adjunct to attempts to define functionally important sequences at human centromeres, we have undertaken a long-range physical analysis of these regions in the mouse. Mouse centromeres are usually situated very close to the chromosome ends and are closely associated with minor satellite sequences on the basis of cytological observations. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis we find that this satellite DNA is arranged as tandem arrays, predominantly uninterrupted by nonsatellite sequences. These arrays can be released largely intact by digestion with a range of enzymes that generally cleave frequently in non-satellite DNA. The restriction fragments carrying these arrays are polymorphic in size between inbred strains and provide direct markers for mouse centromeres. To illustrate the possible use of these polymorphic markers we have mapped a 1.3-Mb PvuII variant in a set of RI strains to the centromere of Chromosome 7. The minor satellite arrays are very close to the centromeric telomere and physical linkage with terminal repeat sequences can readily be detected, placing many minor satellite arrays on terminal restriction fragments smaller than 1 Mb. The apparent lack of any sizable amount of nonsatellite DNA between the minor satellite and the terminal repeat arrays indicates that many mouse chromosomes are truly telocentric.

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