Konstantopoulou I, Ouzounis CA, Drosopoulou E, Yiangou M, Sideras P, Sander C, Scouras ZG. A Drosophila hsp70 gene contains long, antiparallel, coupled open reading frames (LAC ORFs) conserved in homologous loci.
J Mol Evol 1995;
41:414-20. [PMID:
7563128 DOI:
10.1007/bf00160312]
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Abstract
A clone isolated from a Drosophila auraria heat-shock cDNA library presents two long, antiparallel, coupled (LAC) open reading frames (ORFs). One strand ORF is 1,929 nucleotides long and exhibits great identity (87.5% at the nucleotide level and 94% at the amino acid level) with the hsp70 gene copies of D. melanogaster, while the second strand ORF, in antiparallel in-frame register arrangement, is 1,839 nucleotides long and exhibits 32% identity with a putative, recently identified, NAD(+)-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase (NAD(+)-GDH). The overlap of the two ORFs is 1,824 nucleotides long. Computational analysis shows that this LAC ORF arrangement is conserved in other hsp70 loci in a wide range of organisms, raising questions about possible evolutionary benefits of such a peculiar genomic organization.
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