Isolation, characterization and chromosomal localization of a human pseudogene for hexokinase II

Hossein Ardehali, Richard L. Printz, Stephen Koch, John A. Phillips, Daryl K. Granner*

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Abstract

A processed pseudogene for hexokinase II (HKII), the first such reported for a member of the hexokinase gene family, was isolated from a human genomic library by using a rat HKII cDNA as a probe. The pseudogene contains a region that is identical to the open reading frame of the human HKII cDNA at 97% of the nucleotide positions, but it contains several frameshift mutations, small deletions and insertions, and several stop codons. The human HKII pseudogene is located on the X chromosome and is integrated into a long interspersed nuclear repetitive DNA element (LINE). We estimate that this integration event occurred approximately 14-16 Myr (million years) ago.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)357-361
Number of pages5
JournalGene
Volume164
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 27 1995

Keywords

  • LINE element
  • Somatic cell hybrids
  • X chromosome
  • evolution
  • processed pseudogene

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics

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