ISOLATION AND PARTIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GENE FOR CYTOCHROME P-450 3a (P-450~~~) AND A SECOND CLOSELY RELATED GENE Shahrokh
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Two genes that hybridize to the cDNA for alcoholinducible cytochrome P-450 form 3a (P-450ALC 1 have been isolated from a rabbit genomic library and characterized by restriction mapping, hybridization, and partial sequence analysis. The genes show extensive sequence similarity as judged by hybridization at high stringency to the coding region of P-450 3a cDNA. However , only gene 1 hybridizes under these conditions to the 3’ nontranslated segment of P-450 3a cDNA. The hybridizing fragments derived from both cloned genes were found to be present in the genome of all rabbits examined by Southern blot analysis, indicating that the genes represent separate loci and are not polymorphic alleles. Partial sequence analysis indicated that gene 1 encodes P-450 3a. Gene 2, if transcribed, would encode a protein with greater than 96% sequence identity with P-450 3a in the NHz-terminal region.
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