Electrophoretic Variation in Low Molecular Weight Lens Crystallins from Inbred Strains of Rats

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Journal Biochem Genet

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 1985 Oct 1

PMID 3936479

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Authors

M E Donner

L C Skow

H W Kunz

T J Gill 3rd

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Abstract

Analysis of rat lens soluble proteins by analytical isoelectric focusing detected two inherited electrophoretic differences in low molecular weight (LM) crystallins from inbred strains of rats (Rattus norvegicus). The polymorphic lens crystallins were shown to be similar to a genetically variant LM crystallin, LEN-1, previously described in mice (Mus musculus) and encoded on chromosome 1, at a locus linked to Pep-3 (dipeptidase). Linkage analysis demonstrated that the rat crystallin locus was loosely linked to Pep-3 at a recombination distance of 38 +/- 4.5 U. These data suggest the conservation of a large chromosomal region during the evolution of Rodentia and support the hypothesis that the gamma-crystallins are evolving more rapidly than alpha- or beta-crystallins.

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