Expression Inactivating Mechanisms of Major Histocompatibility Class I Alleles in Melanogrammus aeglefinus

dc.comment.hiddenMelanogrammus aeglefinus is a species name and should be in italics. Is it possible to do this?en
dc.contributor.authorRyan, Colleen Anna
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-30T17:32:20Z
dc.date.available2010-08-30T17:32:20Z
dc.date.issued2010-08-30T17:32:20Z
dc.date.submitted2010
dc.description.abstractMelanogrammus aeglefinus, commonly known as haddock, is a commercially important marine fish species closely related to cod. Preliminary investigations into the immune function of this species has revealed several unique and interesting features, including an unusually high number of expressed alleles of Major Histocompatibility (MH) Class I genes. The goal of this project was to examine the sequences of alleles, including the untranslated regions, for potential regulatory mechanisms which may limit the number of alleles expressed to the point of functional molecules. Using a cDNA library from an individual haddock, a total of 22 unique alleles were isolated and sequenced, and three putative mechanisms for limiting expression were revealed. The first mechanism was the inversion of the open reading frame within the transcript. The second mechanism was the linking of the MH Class I transcript with the transcript of another gene. The third mechanism was non-classical substitutions at the nine amino acid residues involved in peptide anchoring. These three mechanisms represent novel ways of limiting expression and effectively reduced the number of alleles which could be expressed into functional classical MH Class I molecules.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/5409
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalseen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectMH Class I expressionen
dc.subjectHaddocken
dc.subject.programBiologyen
dc.titleExpression Inactivating Mechanisms of Major Histocompatibility Class I Alleles in Melanogrammus aeglefinusen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Scienceen
uws-etd.degree.departmentBiologyen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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