Worm Breeder's Gazette 10(1): 58
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In the process of completing the sequence of lin-12, we inadvertently obtained the sequence of the adjacent gene on the 3' side of lin-12. It is oriented in the opposite direction relative to lin-12. (We have data indicating that lin-12 runs 5' to 3' with respect to the genetic map.) The sequence presented below is a composite of genomic and cDNA sequence data; the cDNAs were obtained from a library kindly provided by Julie Ahringer and Judith Kimble. The predicted product is 40% identical to rat liver glutathione S- transferase P subunit (Suguoka et al., NAR 13: 6049, 1985); the degree of homology is higher if conservative substitutions are taken into account. Identical amino acids are boxed. The data indicate that there is a splice joining an exon (277-end) to a 5' exon(s). [See Figure 1]