Huntingtin gene evolution in Chordata and its peculiar features in the ascidian Ciona genus

Carmela Gissi¹ , Graziano Pesole¹^,2 , Elena Cattaneo³ and Marzia Tartari³

¹Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

²Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

³Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

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BMC Genomics 2006, 7:288doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-288


Published:	8 November 2006

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Additional file 1:

Huntingtin amino acid alignment. Amino acid alignment, in fasta format, of the htt proteins of chordates.

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Additional file 2:

Exon size of chordate huntingtin genes. Length (in bp) is reported only for proten-coding exons.

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Additional file 3:

Huntingtin EST clones of Ciona. Ciona EST clones corresponding to partial huntingtin transcripts, and similarity to the htt mRNA sequence determined in this study

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Schematic map of the C. intestinalis huntingtin transcript amplification strategy. Amplified fragments are reported as blue boxes; amplified and cloned fragments are reported as shaded boxes. EST clones, listed in 3, are reported as white boxes. Arrows indicate the position of inner RACE primers. The 5'- and 3'-UTR regions are shown as a thick line.

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Additional file 5:

Protein sequence Accession Numbers (AC), genome assemblies and genomic coordinates of the region used in huntingtin annotation. Genomic coordinates refer to a sequence with about 10000 additional nucleotides upstream and downstream the region of initial similarity to the protein sequence

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Huntingtin nucleotide alignment. Nucleotide alignment, in fasta format, of the htt protein-coding sequences of chordates. The alignment was obtained by"back-translation" of the amino acid alignment.

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