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  • Title: Restricted association of V and J-C gene segments for mouse lambda chains.
    Author: Reilly EB, Blomberg B, Imanishi-Kari T, Tonegawa S, Eisen HN.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 1984 Apr; 81(8):2484-8. PubMed ID: 6326130.
    Abstract:
    The frequencies of diverse rearrangements of variable (V)lambda to joining (J)lambda gene segments were examined by Southern blot hybridization in 30 murine B-cell lines, each producing an immunoglobulin lambda light chain of known subtype (lambda 1, lambda 2, or lambda 3). For 11 out of 12 lambda 1 chains, the rearrangement was V lambda 1----J lambda 1; for 9 out of 9 lambda 2 chains, it was V lambda 2----J lambda 2; and for 8 out of 9 lambda 3 chains, it was V lambda 1----J lambda 3. Similar results were obtained by considering the partial or complete sequences at the amino acid or cDNA level of 44 other lambda chains (24 previously described): for 43 of these chains the rearranged V-J gene segments were evidently V lambda 1-J lambda 1 for 28 lambda 1 chains, V lambda 2-J lambda 2 for 10 lambda 2 chains, and V lambda 1-J lambda 3 for 5 lambda 3 chains. Of the combined total of 74 chains there were 3 with unusual V lambda rearrangements, all involving the V lambda 2 gene segment: for 2 of these unusual chains, the encoding segments were V lambda 2-J lambda 1-C lambda 1 and for one they were V lambda 2-J lambda 3-C lambda 3. Thus, the results for all 74 lambda chains show that, in contrast to the apparently unrestricted V kappa----J kappa rearrangements for kappa chains, for each of the 3 murine lambda-chain subtypes V-J recombination is severely restricted: the V lambda gene segment expressed in lambda 1 and lambda 3 chains was nearly always V lambda 1 (95% and 93%, respectively), whereas in lambda 2 chains it was without exception V lambda 2 (19 out of 19 chains). Therefore V lambda-J lambda combinatorial variation is not a significant source of amino acid sequence diversity of lambda chains of inbred mice. If the order of the lambda gene segments is 5' V lambda 2-J lambda 2C lambda 2J lambda 4C lambda 4-V lambda 1-J lambda 3C lambda 3J lambda 1C lambda 1 3', as suggested previously and by the present findings, it appears that (i) when a V lambda gene segment rearranges in a developing B cell it ordinarily recombines with a J lambda gene segment in the nearest downstream (3') cluster of J lambda C lambda segments, and (ii) V lambda rearrangement to the upstream (5') cluster is very rare and possibly may not take place at all.
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