Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2787965 Journal of Genetics and Genomics 2007 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
Pig GATA-3 cDNA was obtained by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), using in silico cloning strategy based on pig dbEST. The length of pig GATA-3 cDNA is 1,760 bp containing a 1,335 bp open reading frame (ORF), which encodes a 444 amino acid protein. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis of GATA-3 mRNA expression was done using the total RNAs from different normal tissues of a large white pig. The GATA-binding family of transcription factors comprised of a subgroup of DNA-binding proteins that both bound the consensus GATA motif and contained the class ? zinc finger motif. The molecular evolution tree was constructed based on the GATA-3 amino acid sequence and class ? zinc finger motif using mega 3.1. Phylogeny analysis of GATA factors isolated from vertebrates suggested that the six distinct vertebrate GATAs had descended from a common ancestral sequence, and the topology also suggested multiple modes of evolution including gene duplication and class ? zinc finger motif recombination. These data helped the authors in illuminating the pathways of divergent and convergent evolution of the GATA-binding family of transcription factors.
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