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Comparative Analysis, Gene Organization And Expression Of Canine Tcte1l, Kui Li, Qi Zhang, Jennifer L. Johnson, Gustavo D. Aguirre
Comparative Analysis, Gene Organization And Expression Of Canine Tcte1l, Kui Li, Qi Zhang, Jennifer L. Johnson, Gustavo D. Aguirre
Gustavo D. Aguirre, VMD, PhD
The murine t-complex-associated testis-expressed 1-like gene (TCTE1L) of the dog was cloned, characterized, and compared to the human ortholog. The characterized region of cDNA includes 351 bp of coding sequence which encodes a protein of 116 amino acids. The canine gene, spanning about 8.5 kb sequence, consists of 5 exons, with the initiation and stop codons found in the first and last exons, respectively. The comparative analyses reveal the evolutionarily conserved exonic and intronic regions, as well as gene flanking sequences. A 2.1 kb transcript was ubiquitously expressed in all the tissues examined, and secondarily down-expressed in the …