Patent Publication Number: US-6221849-B1

Title: DNA methyltransferase genomic sequences and antisense oligonucleotides

Description:
This is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 08/866,340, filed May 30, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,020,318. This application claims priority to U.S. Ser. No. 60/069,865, filed Dec. 17, 1997. 
    
    
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The invention relates to modulation of gene expression. In particular, the invention relates to modulation of gene expression of the gene encoding DNA methyltransferase, and to modulation of gene expression that is regulated by the enzyme DNA methyltransferase. 
     2. Summary of the Related Art 
     Modulation of gene expression has become an increasingly important approach to understanding various cellular processes and their underlying biochemical pathways. Such understanding enriches scientific knowledge and helps lead to new discoveries of how aberrancies in such pathways can lead to serious disease states. Ultimately, such discoveries can lead to the development of effective therapeutic treatments for these diseases. 
     One type of cellular process that is of particular interest is how the cell regulates the expression of its genes. Aberrant gene expression appears to be responsible for a wide variety of inherited genetic disorders, and has also been implicated in numerous cancers and other diseases. Regulation of gene expression is a complex process, and many aspects of this process remain to be understood. One of the mysteries of this process resides in the fact that while the genetic information is the same in all tissues that constitute a multicellular organism, the expression of functions encoded by the genome varies significantly in different tissues. 
     In some cases, tissue-specific transcription factors are known to play a role in this phenomenon. (See Maniatis et al., Science 236: 1237-1245 (1987); Ingarham et al., Annual Review of Physiology 52: 773-791 (1990). However, several important cases exist that cannot be readily explained by the action of transcription factors alone. For example, Midgeon, Trends Genet. 10: 230-235 (1994), teaches that X-inactivation involves the inactivation of an allele of a gene that resides on the inactive X-chromosome, while the allele on the active X-chromosome continues to be expressed. In addition, Peterson and Sapienza, Annu. Rev. Genet. 27: 7-31 (1993), describes “parental imprinting”, where an allele of a gene that is inherited from one parent is active and the other allele inherited from the other parent is inactive. In both of these cases, both alleles exist in an environment containing the same transcription factors, yet one allele is expressed and the other is silent. Thus, something other than transcription factors must be involved in these phenomena. 
     Investigators have been probing what type of “epigenetic information” may be involved in this additional control of the expression pattern of the genome. Holliday, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 326: 329-338 (1990) discusses the possible role for DNA methylation in such epigenetic inheritance. DNA contains a set of modifications that is not encoded in the genetic sequence, but is added covalently to DNA using a different enzymatic machinery. These modifications take the form of methylation at the 5 position of cytosine bases in CpG dinucleotides. Numerous studies have suggested that such methylation may well be involved in regulating gene expression, but its precise role has remained elusive. For example, Lock et al., Cell 48: 39-46 (1987), raises questions about whether the timing of hypermethylation and X-inactivation is consistent with a causal role for methylation. Similarly, Bartolomei et al., Genes Dev. 7: 1663-1673 (1993) and Brandeis et al., EMBO J. 12: 3669-3677 (1993), disclose timing/causation questions for the role of methylation in parental imprinting. 
     Some of the shortcomings of existing studies of the role of DNA methylation in gene expression reside in the tools that are currently available for conducting the studies. Many studies have employed 5-azaC to inhibit DNA methylation. However, 5-azaC is a nucleoside analog that has multiple effects on cellular mechanisms other than DNA methylation, thus making it difficult to interpret data obtained from these studies. Similarly, 5-azadC forms a mechanism based inhibitor upon integration into DNA, but it can cause trapping of DNA methyltransferase (hereinafter, DNA MeTase) molecules on the DNA, resulting in toxicities that may obscure data interpretation. 
     More recently, Szyf et al., J. Biol. Chem. 267: 12831-12836 (1995), discloses a more promising approach using expression of antisense RNA complementary to the DNA MeTase gene to study the effect of methylation on cancer cells. Szyf and von Hofe, U.S. Pat. No. 5,578,716, discloses the use of antisense oligonucleotides complementary to the DNA MeTase gene to inhibit tumorigenicity. These developments have provided powerful new tools for probing the role of methylation in numerous cellular processes. In addition, they have provided promising new approaches for developing therapeutic compounds that can modulate DNA methylation. One limitation to these approaches is that their effect is not immediate, due to the half life of DNA MeTase enzyme. Thus, although the expression of DNA MeTase is modulated, residual DNA MeTase enzyme can continue to methylate DNA until such residual enzyme is degraded. Polysome-associated DNA MeTase mRNA may also persist for some time, allowing additional translation to produce additional DNA MeTase enzyme. There is, therefore, a need for new antisense oligonucleotides which can act against intron regions of DNA MeTase RNA in the nucleus before its processing and association with polysomes. The development of such oligonucleotides will require obtaining sequence information about the non-coding regions of DNA MeTase RNA. 
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The invention provides recombinant nucleic acids comprising nucleic acid sequences from the genomic DNA methyltransferase gene (DNA MeTase). The invention also provides recombinant nucleic acids comprising nucleic acid sequences complementary to the genomic DNA MeTase gene. The invention further provides sequence information for such nucleic acid sequences. In addition, the invention provides antisense oligonucleotides complementary to special target regions of the genomic DNA MeTase gene or its RNA transcript. Finally, the invention provides methods for using such antisense oligonucleotides as analytical and diagnostic tools, as potentiators of transgenic plant and animal studies and for gene therapy approaches, and as potential therapeutic agents. 
     In a first aspect, the invention provides novel recombinant nucleic acid sequences comprising at least one nucleotide sequence selected from the nucleotide sequences of the genomic DNA MeTase gene. The sequence of the sense strand of the genomic DNA MeTase gene is shown in FIG.  1 . The nucleotide sequence of the sense strand of the DNA MeTase gene is also set forth in the Sequence Listings as SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2, SEQ ID NO 3, SEQ ID NO 4, SEQ ID NO 5, SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 7, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 10, SEQ ID NO 11, SEQ ID NO 12, SEQ ID NO 13, SEQ ID NO 14, SEQ ID NO 15, SEQ ID NO 16, SEQ ID NO 17, SEQ ID NO 18, SEQ ID NO 19, SEQ ID NO 20, SEQ ID NO 21, SEQ ID NO 22, SEQ ID NO 23, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO 25, SEQ ID NO 26, SEQ ID NO 27, SEQ ID NO 28, SEQ ID NO 29, SEQ ID NO 30, SEQ ID NO 31, SEQ ID NO 32, SEQ ID NO 33, SEQ ID NO 34, SEQ ID NO 35, SEQ ID NO 36, SEQ ID NO 37, and SEQ ID NO 38. 
     In a second aspect, the invention provides novel recombinant nucleic acid sequences complementary to at least one nucleotide sequence selected from the nucleotide sequences set forth in the Sequence Listings as SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2, SEQ ID NO 3, SEQ ID NO 4, SEQ ID NO 5, SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 7, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 10, SEQ ID NO 11, SEQ ID NO 12, SEQ ID NO 13, SEQ ID NO 14, SEQ ID NO 15, SEQ ID NO 16, SEQ ID NO 17, SEQ ID NO 18, SEQ ID NO 19, SEQ ID NO 20, SEQ ID NO 21, SEQ ID NO 22, SEQ ID NO 23, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO 25, SEQ ID NO 26, SEQ ID NO 27, SEQ ID NO 28, SEQ ID NO 29, SEQ ID NO 30, SEQ ID NO 31, SEQ ID NO 32, SEQ ID NO 33, SEQ ID NO 34, SEQ ID NO 35, SEQ ID NO 36, SEQ ID NO 37, and SEQ ID NO 38. 
     In a third aspect, the invention provides antisense oligonucleotides which inhibit the expression of DNA MeTase. Such antisense oligonucleotides are complementary to a special target region of RNA or double-stranded DNA that encodes DNA MeTase. Preferably, such antisense oligonucleotides contain one or more modified internucleoside linkage and may optionally contain either deoxyribonucleosides, ribonucleosides or 2′-O-substituted ribonucleosides, or any combination thereof. Particularly preferred antisense oligonucleotides according to this aspect of the invention include chimeric oligonucleotides and hybrid oligonucleotides. 
     In a fourth aspect, the invention provides a method for investigating the role of DNA MeTase in cellular growth, including the growth of tumor cells. In the method according to this aspect of the invention, the cell type of interest is contacted with an antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention, resulting in inhibition of expression of DNA MeTase in the cell. The antisense oligonucleotides can be administered at different points in the cell cycle, or in conjunction with promoters or inhibitors of cell growth to determine the role of DNA MeTase in the growth of the cell type of interest. 
     In a fifth aspect, the invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor growth comprising administering to a mammal, including a human, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention. In the method according to this aspect of the invention a therapeutically effective amount of an antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention is administered for a therapeutically effective period of time to a mammal, including a human, which has tumor cells present in its body. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     FIGS. 1A-J shows the nucleotide sequence for the sense strand of the DNA MeTase gene comprising the nucleotide acid sequences set forth in the Sequence Listings as SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2, SEQ ID NO 3, SEQ ID NO 4, SEQ ID NO 5, SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 7, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 10, SEQ ID NO 11, SEQ ID NO 12, SEQ ID NO 13, SEQ ID NO 14, SEQ ID NO 15, SEQ ID NO 16, SEQ ID NO 17, SEQ ID NO 18, SEQ ID NO 19, SEQ ID NO 20, SEQ ID NO 21, SEQ ID NO 22, SEQ ID NO 23, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO 25, SEQ ID NO 26, SEQ ID NO 27, SEQ ID NO 28, SEQ ID NO 29, SEQ ID NO 30, SEQ ID NO 31, SEQ ID NO 32, SEQ ID NO 33, SEQ ID NO 34, SEQ ID NO 35, SEQ ID NO 36, SEQ ID NO 37, and SEQ ID NO 38. Nucleotides in coding regions are identified as bold characters. Subscript numbers correspond to the DNA MeTase cDNA numbering of Yen et al. (Nucleic Acids Res. 20(9): 2287-2291 (1992) and Yoder et al. (J. Biol. Chem. 271: 31092-31097 (1996)). Preferred special target regions are underlined. 
     FIGS. 2A-D are representations of autoradiographs (panels A, B and D) and Western blots (panel C) in an experiment to identify complex formation between the oligonucleotides of the invention and DNA MeTase enzyme. Complex formation was reversed by boiling, and was independent of SAM. 
     FIG. 3 is a graphic representation showing the ability of representative, nonlimiting, synthetic oligonucleotides of the invention to inhibit DNA MeTase activity in the nuclear extracts. 
     FIGS.  4 A- 4 C: Panel (A) shows the restriction map and phage clones of the human DNA MeTase gene. The cDNA probes used for screening are indicated by arrows under the lines representing the genomic fragments contained in the phages (the name of each phage is indicated above the line) identified by each of the probes. The numbers under the arrow indicate the 5′ and 3′ ends of the cDNA sequences included in each of the probes. The cDNA is numbered as in Yoder et al., 1996. Genomic inserts were isolated from the phages by NotI digestion and sub-cloned into NotI linearized pBluescript SK+. Sub-clones were digested with restriction endonucleases (X=Xba 1, B=Bam H1, H=Hind III) Southern blotted and hybridized to exon specific  32 P labelled oligodeoxyribonucleotides or cDNA probes to produce a scale restriction map of the human DNA MeTase gene. 
     FIG. 4 Panel (B) is a schematic representation showing the exon-intron structure of the human DNA MeTase gene. Sub-clones shown in panel (A) were exon sequenced to determine exon-intron boundaries. Exons are depicted as vertical bars and numbered above, introns as thick horizontal bars. Regions containing exons coding for specific function domains are depicted, NLS=nuclear localisation signal, FTR=replication foci targeting region, Zn=zinc binding domain, AdoMet Binding=S-adenosyl-methionine binding motif, Pro-Cys =proline-cysteine catalytic motif, Catalytic Domain=region conserved in all CpG methyltransferases. Exonal location of proposed initiation codons=ATG. 
     FIG. 4 Panel (C) shows the positions of exons determined by PCR analysis and verified by Southern blot analysis. The fragments encoding the different segments of the human DNA MeTase mRNA were visualized by hybridization to the following cDNA probes: 1. A probe bearing the first exon. 2. A probe bearing exons  3 - 5  (starting spanning nucleotides  415 - 740  of the known cDNA) 3. A probe bearing exons  7 - 20  4. A probe spanning exons  30 - 40 . The cDNA probes are indicated under the map of the exon-intron structure, the dashed lines delineate the boundaries of exons spanned by each of the probes. The fragments visualized by each of the restriction enzymes are indicated by different shaded arrows. The size of the visualized fragments is indicated next to the arrows. The size of the fragments visualized by each of the probes corresponds to the size predicted by the restriction enzyme analysis of the genomic phages. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     The invention relates to modulation of gene expression. In particular, the invention relates to modulation of gene expression of the gene encoding DNA methyltransferase (DNA MeTase), and to modulation of gene expression that is regulated by the enzyme DNA MeTase. The patents and publications identified in this specification are within the knowledge of those skilled in this field and are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. 
     The invention provides recombinant nucleic acids comprising nucleic acid sequences from the genomic DNA MeTase gene. The invention further provides sequence information for such nucleic acid sequences. In addition, the invention provides antisense oligonucleotides complementary to regions of the genomic DNA MeTase gene or its RNA transcript which could not be targeted in the absence of such information. Finally, the invention provides methods for using such antisense oligonucleotides as analytical and diagnostic tools, as potentiators of transgenic plant and animal studies and gene therapy approaches, and as potential therapeutic agents. 
     In a first aspect, the invention provides novel recombinant nucleic acid sequences comprising at least one nucleotide sequence selected from the nucleotide sequences of the genomic DNA MeTase gene. The sequence of the sense strand of the genomic DNA MeTase is shown in FIG.  1 . Coding regions are identified as bold sequences. 
     In one preferred embodiment, the recombinant DNA molecule according to the invention comprises at least one nucleotide sequences selected from the nucleotide sequences shown in FIG.  1  and corresponding to Sequence Listings SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2, SEQ ID NO 3, SEQ ID NO 4, SEQ ID NO 5, SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 7, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 10, SEQ ID NO 11, SEQ ID NO 12, SEQ ID NO 13, SEQ ID NO 14, SEQ ID NO 15, SEQ ID NO 16, SEQ ID NO 17, SEQ ID NO 18, SEQ ID NO 19, SEQ ID NO 20, SEQ ID NO 21, SEQ ID NO 22, SEQ ID NO 23, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO 25, SEQ ID NO 26, SEQ ID NO 27, SEQ ID NO 28, SEQ ID NO 29, SEQ ID NO 30, SEQ ID NO 31, SEQ ID NO 32, SEQ ID NO 33, SEQ ID NO 34, SEQ ID NO 35, SEQ ID NO 36, SEQ ID NO 37, and SEQ ID NO. 38 in a replicatable vector. As used herein, the term “replicatable vector” designates a nucleic acid vector able to replicate in at least one cell type. Many such replicatable vectors are well known in the art (see e.g.,  Molecular Cloning,  2d Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (1989)). 
     In an additional preferred embodiment, the recombinant DNA molecule according to the invention comprises nucleotide sequences complementary to at least a portion of the nucleotide sequence shown in FIG. 1, and corresponding to at least one of the nucleotide sequences set forth as Sequence Listings SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2, SEQ ID NO 3, SEQ ID NO 4, SEQ ID NO 5, SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 7, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 10, SEQ ID NO 11, SEQ ID NO 12, SEQ ID NO 13, SEQ ID NO 14, SEQ ID NO 15, SEQ ID NO 16, SEQ ID NO 17, SEQ ID NO 18, SEQ ID NO 19, SEQ ID NO 20, SEQ ID NO 21, SEQ ID NO 22, SEQ ID NO 23, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO 25, SEQ ID NO 26, SEQ ID NO 27, SEQ ID NO 28, SEQ ID NO 29, SEQ ID NO 30, SEQ ID NO 31, SEQ ID NO 32, SEQ ID NO 33, SEQ ID NO 34, SEQ ID NO 35, SEQ ID NO 36, SEQ ID NO 37, and SEQ ID NO 38 in a replicatable vector. 
     In another preferred embodiment, the replicatable vector is an expression vector. The term “expression vector” refers, in one embodiment, to a replicatable vector able to support the translation of part or all of its sequences into one or more peptides. The expression vector of this invention may replicate autonomously in the host cell, or may become integrated into the host cell DNA. The expression vector can be used to transform a host cell which is capable of expressing the nucleotide sequence shown in FIG.  1 . 
     In yet another preferred embodiment, the term expression vector refers to a vector capable of supporting the transcription of part or all of its sequences into one or more transcripts. The vector according to this embodiment of the invention may replicate autonomously in the host cell, or may become integrated into the host cell DNA. The vector can be used to transform a host cell which is capable of transcription of the nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence shown in FIG.  1 . Preparation of recombinant DNA molecules and expression vectors and their use to transform host cells is well known in the art (see e.g.,  Molecular Cloning,  2d Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (1989)). 
     In yet another embodiment, the invention also provides a host cell comprising recombinant DNA molecules according to the invention. According to this invention the term “host cell” refers to a cell which expresses the nucleotide sequences according to this invention. 
     This first aspect of the invention further provides a method for preparing DNA MeTase enzyme or a fragment thereof. The method according to this aspect of the invention comprises culturing a host cell in an appropriate culture media to express the nucleotide sequences according to the invention. Consequently, the host cell of the invention produces DNA MeTase enzyme or a fragment thereof, which may be conveniently separated from the host cell and the culture media by affinity binding, as described in detail in this specification. Fragments of DNA MeTase enzyme can then be used to produce antibodies specific for epitopes of DNA MeTase enzyme, according to standard immunological procedures. Such antibodies can be used to purify DNA MeTase enzyme, or to quantify it in conventional immunological assays. 
     In a second aspect, the invention provides a novel recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising nucleic acid sequences complementary to at least part of the genomic DNA MeTase gene. The sequence of the sense strand of the genomic DNA MeTase is shown in FIG.  1 . Coding regions are identified as bold sequences. For purposes of the invention, “complementary” means being sufficiently complementary to have the ability to hybridize to a genomic region, a gene, or an RNA transcript thereof under physiological conditions. Such hybridization is ordinarily the result of base-specific hydrogen bonding between complementary strands, preferably to form Watson-Crick or Hoogsteen base pairs, although other modes of hydrogen bonding, as well as base stacking can also lead to hybridization. As a practical matter, such complementarity can be inferred from the observation of specific DNA MeTase gene expression inhibition. 
     In one preferred embodiment, the recombinant DNA molecule according to the invention comprises nucleotide acid having a sequence complementary to at least part of the nucleotide sequences shown in FIG. 1, and complementary to at least one of the nucleotide sequences set forth in the Sequence Listings as SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2, SEQ ID NO 3, SEQ ID NO 4, SEQ ID NO 5, SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 7, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 10, SEQ ID NO 11, SEQ ID NO 12, SEQ ID NO 13, SEQ ID NO 14, SEQ ID NO 15, SEQ ID NO 16, SEQ ID NO 17, SEQ ID NO 18, SEQ ID NO 19, SEQ ID NO 20, SEQ ID NO 21, SEQ ID NO 22, SEQ ID NO 23, SEQ ID NO 24, SEQ ID NO 25, SEQ ID NO 26, SEQ ID NO 27, SEQ ID NO 28, SEQ ID NO 29, SEQ ID NO 30, SEQ ID NO 31, SEQ ID NO 32, SEQ ID NO 33, SEQ ID NO 34, SEQ ID NO 35, SEQ ID NO 36, SEQ ID NO 37, and SEQ ID NO 38 in a replicatable vector. In another preferred embodiment the replicatable vector is an expression vector. The replicatable vectors and expression vectors appropriate for this aspect of the invention are generally the same well known materials as discussed for the first aspect of the invention. 
     In yet another embodiment, the invention provides a host cell comprising recombinant DNA molecules according to the invention. This second aspect of the invention further provides a method for inhibiting DNA MeTase enzyme expression in a transfected cell or transgenic animal. The method according to this aspect of the invention comprises culturing a host cell in an appropriate culture media to express the nucleotide sequences according to this aspect of the invention. Consequently, the host cell of the invention produces decreased levels of DNA MeTase enzyme. 
     In a third aspect, the invention provides antisense oligonucleotides which inhibit the expression of DNA MeTase. Such antisense oligonucleotides are complementary to a special target region of RNA or double-stranded DNA that encodes DNA MeTase. 
     The term “special target region” is used to denote sequences which could not be targeted without the sequence information provided by the invention. In particular, such special target regions comprise a portion of the non-coding region of the nucleic acid shown in FIG.  1 . Most preferably, such special target region comprises from about 2 to about 50 nucleotides of such noncoding sequences. Such special target regions include, without limitation, intronic sequences, untranslated 5′ and 3′ regions as well as intron-exon boundaries from the DNA methyltransferase gene. In certain embodiments, said target region may further comprise coding regions from the DNA MeTase gene. 
     Preferred non-limiting examples of antisense oligonucleotides complementary to special target regions of RNA or double-stranded DNA encoding DNA MeTase according to the invention are shown in Table 1. Additional preferred oligonucleotides complementary to such special target regions have nucleotide sequences of from about 21 to about 35 nucleotides which include the nucleotide sequences shown in Table 1. Yet additional preferred oligonucleotides complementary to such special target regions have nucleotide sequences of from about 13 to about 19 nucleotides of the nucleotide sequences shown in Table 1. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
             
               
                             TABLE 1 
               
               
                   
               
               
                  SEQ. 
                   
                   
               
               
                 ID NO. 
                 SEQUENCE 
                 TARGET (*) 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 39 
                  5′ AGA ACT GAC TTA CCT CGG AT 3′ 
                  222 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 40 
                 5′ AGG GTG GGT CTG TGG GAG CA 3′ 
                 1039 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 41 
                 5′ CAG TAC ACA CTA GAC AGG AA 3′ 
                 1230 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 42 
                 5′ CAC ACT TAC AGG TGC TGA AG 3′ 
                 1441 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 43 
                 5′ GAT CTC TTA CCT CGA TCT TG 3′ 
                 1593 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 44 
                 5′ CGC ATC CTT ACC TCT GTC CC 3′ 
                 1782 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 45 
                 5′ GGT GAG GTT ACC TCA CAG AC 3′ 
                 1968 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 46 
                 5′ GGC CTG ACC TAC CTC CGC TC 3′ 
                 2066 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 47 
                 5′ CCA AGG GTT ACC TTG ACG GC 3′ 
                 2214 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 48 
                 5′ AAA GAT GCA AAC CTT GCT AG 3′ 
                 2330 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 49 
                 5′ TCC ATG CCT CCC TTG GGT AG 3′ 
                 2536 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 50 
                 5′ CCA GTG CTC ACT TGA ACT TG 3′ 
                 2669 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 51 
                 5′ ACA CAG AAT CTG AAG GAA AC 3′ 
                 2670 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 52 
                 5′ AGC TTG ATG CTG CAG AGA AG 3′ 
                 2844 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 53 
                 5′ CAG GGG CAC CAC CTC GAG GA 3′ 
                 3258 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 54 
                 5′ CTT GCC CTT CCC TGG GGG AG 3′ 
                 3344 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 55 
                 5′ ACG GCC GCT CAC CTG CTT GG 3′ 
                 3473 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 56 
                 5′ TCC CGG CCT GTG GGG GAG AA 3′ 
                 3898 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 57 
                 5′ GGG CCA CCT ACC TGG TTA TG 3′ 
                 4064 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 58 
                 5′ GGG TGC CAT TAC CTT ACA GA 3′ 
                 4242 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 59 
                 5′ ACA GGA CCC ACC TTC CAC GC 3′ 
                 4438 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 60 
                 5′ GCA CGC GGC CCT GGG GGA AA 3′ 
                 4606 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 61 
                 5′ GCC CCA CTG ACT GCC GGT GC 3′ 
                 4722 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 62 
                 5′ CCC GGG TGG TAT GCC GTG AG 3′ 
                 4809 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 63 
                 5′ CTG CTC TTA CGC TTA GCC TC 3′ 
                  442 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 64 
                 5′ GAA GGT TCA GCT GTT TAA AG 3′ 
                  443 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 65 
                 5′ GTT TGG CAG GGC TGT CAC AC 3′ 
                  519 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 66 
                 5′ CTG GCC CTA CCT GGT CTT TG  3′ 
                  597 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 67 
                 5′ CTA GCA ACT CTG TCA AGC AA  3′ 
                  633 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 68 
                 5′ TAG AGC TTT ACT TTT TCA TC  3′ 
                  717 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 69 
                 5′ GTT TGG GTG TTC TGT CAC AG  3′ 
                  753 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 70 
                 5′ GTT TGG CAG CTC TGC AGG GT  3′ 
                  876 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     For purposes of the invention, the term “oligonucleotide” includes polymers of two or more deoxyribonucleosides, ribonucleosides, or 2′-O-substituted ribonucleoside residues, or any combination thereof. Preferably, such oligonucleotides have from about 8 to about 50 nucleoside residues, and most preferably from about 12 to about 30 nucleoside residues. The nucleoside residues may be coupled to each other by any of the numerous known internucleoside linkages. Such internucleoside linkages include without limitation phosphorothioate, phosphorodithioate, alkylphosphonate, alkylphosphonothioate, phosphotriester, phosphoramidate, siloxane, carbonate, carboxymethylester, acetamidate, carbamate, thioether, bridged phosphoramidate, bridged methylene phosphonate, bridged phosphorothioate and sulfone internucleotide linkages. In certain preferred embodiments, these internucleoside linkages may be phosphodiester, phosphotriester, phosphorothioate, or phosphoramidate linkages, or combinations thereof. The term oligonucleotide also encompasses such polymers having chemically modified bases or sugars and/or having additional substituents, including without limitation lipophilic groups, intercalating agents, diamines and adamantane. For purposes of the invention the term “2′-O-substituted” means substitution of the 2′ position of the pentose moiety with an -O-lower alkyl group containing 1-6 saturated or unsaturated carbon atoms, or with an -O-aryl or allyl group having 2-6 carbon atoms, wherein such alkyl, aryl or allyl group may be unsubstituted or may be substituted, e.g., with halo, hydroxy, trifluoromethyl, cyano, nitro, acyl, acyloxy, alkoxy, carboxyl, carbalkoxyl, or amino groups; or such 2′ substitution may be with a hydroxy group (to produce a ribonucleoside), an amino or a halo group, but not with a 2′-H group. 
     Particularly preferred antisense oligonucleotides according to this aspect of the invention include chimeric oligonucleotides and hybrid oligonucleotides. 
     For purposes of the invention, a “chimeric oligonucleotide” refers to an oligonucleotide having more than one type of internucleoside linkage. One preferred embodiment of such a chimeric oligonucleotide is a chimeric oligonucleotide comprising a phosphorothioate, phosphodiester or phosphorodithioate region, preferably comprising from about 2 to about 12 nucleotides, and an alkylphosphonate or alkylphosphonothioate region. Preferably, such chimeric oligonucleotides contain at least three consecutive internucleoside linkages selected from phosphodiester and phosphorothioate linkages, or combinations thereof. 
     For purposes of the invention, a “hybrid oligonucleotide” refers to an oligonucleotide having more than one type of nucleoside. One preferred embodiment of such a hybrid oligonucleotide comprises a ribonucleotide or 2′-O-substituted ribonucleotide region, preferably comprising from about 2 to about 12 2′-O-substituted nucleotides, and a deoxyribonucleotide region. Preferably, such a hybrid oligonucleotide will contain at least three consecutive deoxyribonucleosides and will also contain ribonucleosides, 2′-O-substituted ribonucleosides, or combinations thereof. 
     The exact nucleotide sequence and chemical structure of an antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention can be varied, so long as the oligonucleotide retains its ability to inhibit DNA MeTase expression. This is readily determined by testing whether the particular antisense oligonucleotide is active in a DNA MeTase enzyme assay, a soft agar growth assay, or an in vivo tumor growth assay, all of which are described in detail in this specification. 
     Antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention may conveniently be synthesized on a suitable solid support using well known chemical approaches, including H-phosphonate chemistry, phosphoramidite chemistry, or a combination of H-phosphonate chemistry and phosphoramidite chemistry (i.e., H-phosphonate chemistry for some cycles and phosphoramidite chemistry for other cycles). Suitable solid supports include any of the standard solid supports used for solid phase oligonucleotide synthesis, such as controlled-pore glass (CPG). (See, e.g., Pon, Methods in Molec. Biol. 20: 465 (1993)). 
     Antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention are useful for a variety of purposes. For example, they can be used as “probes” of the physiological function of DNA MeTase by being used to inhibit the activity of DNA methyltransferase in an experimental cell culture or animal system and to evaluate the effect of inhibiting such DNA MeTase activity. This is accomplished by administering to a cell or an animal an antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention and observing any phenotypic effects. In this use, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention are preferable to traditional “gene knockout” approaches because they are easier to use and can be used to inhibit DNA MeTase activity at selected stages of development or differentiation. Thus, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention can serve as probes to test the role of DNA methylation in various stages of development. 
     Finally, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention are useful in therapeutic approaches to benign and malignant tumors and other human diseases involving suppression of gene expression. The anti-tumor utility of antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention is described in detail elsewhere in this specification. In addition, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention may be used to activate silenced genes to provide a missing gene function and thus ameliorate disease symptoms. For example, the diseases beta thalassemia and sickle cell anemia are caused by aberrant expression of the adult beta globin gene. Most individuals suffering from these diseases have normal copies of the fetal gene for beta globin. However, the fetal gene is hypermethylated and is silent. Activation of the fetal globin gene could provide the needed globin function, thus ameliorating the disease symptoms. 
     For therapeutic use, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention may optionally be formulated with any of the well known pharmaceutically acceptable carriers or diluents. This formulation may further contain one or more DNA MeTase inhibitor and/or one or more additional anti-DNA MeTase antisense oligonucleotide or it may contain any other pharmacologically active agent. 
     In a fourth aspect, the invention provides a method for investigating the role of DNA MeTase in cellular growth, including the growth of tumor cells. In the method according to this aspect of the invention, the cell type of interest is contacted with an antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention, resulting in inhibition of expression of DNA MeTase in the cell. The antisense oligonucleotides can be administered at different points in the cell cycle, or in conjunction with promoters or inhibitors of cell growth to determine the role of DNA MeTase in the growth of the cell type of interest. 
     In a fifth aspect, the invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor growth comprising administering to an animal, including a human, antisense oligonucleotides according to the invention. In the method according to this aspect of the invention a therapeutically effective amount of an antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention is administered for a therapeutically effective period of time to an animal, including a human, which has at least one tumor cell present in its body. 
     As used herein the term “tumor growth” is used to refer to the growth of a tumor cell. A “tumor cell” is a neoplastic cell. A tumor cell may be benign, i.e. one that does not form metastases and does not invade and destroy adjacent normal tissue, or malignant, i.e. one that invades surrounding tissues, is capable of producing metastases, may recur after attempted removal, and is likely to cause death of the host. 
     The terms “therapeutically effective amount” and “therapeutically effective period of time” are used to denote known treatments at dosages and for periods of time effective to reduce tumor cell growth. Preferably, such administration should be parenteral, oral, sublingual, transdermal, topical, intranasal or intrarectal. When administered systemically, the therapeutic composition is preferably administered at a sufficient dosage to attain a blood level of antisense oligonucleotide from about 0.01 μM to about 10 μM. For localized administration, much lower concentrations than this may be effective, and much higher concentrations may be tolerated. Preferably, a total dosage of DNA MeTase inhibitor will range from about 0.1 mg oligonucleotide per patient per day to about 200 mg oligonucleotide per kg body weight per day. 
     According to another embodiment, one or more of the oligonucleotides of the invention may be administered to an animal this aspect of the invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor growth comprising administering to an animal, including a human, more than one antisense oligonucleotide according to the invention either sequentially or simultaneously in a therapeutically effective amount and for a therapeutically effective period of time. 
     The following examples are intended to further illustrate certain preferred embodiments of the invention and are not limiting in nature. 
     EXAMPLE 1 
     Inhibition of DNA MeTase Expression As Measured in Nuclear Extracts Prepared from Human or Murine Cells 
     Nuclear extracts are prepared from 1×10 8  mid-log phase human H446 cells or mouse Y1 cells which have been grown under standard cell culture conditions. Cells were treated with medium supplemented with 1 mg/ml of an antisense oligonucleotide complementary to a noncoding region of the DNA MeTase RNA transcript or a randomer (negative control) oligonucleotide. The cells are harvested and washed twice with phosphate buffered saline (PBS), then the cell pellet is resuspended in 0.5 ml Buffer A (10 mM Tris pH 8.0, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 5 mM KCl 2 , 0.5 mM DTT, 0.5 mM PMSF and 0.5% Nonidet P40) to separate the nuclei from other cell components. The nuclei are pelleted by centrifugation in an Eppendorf microfuge at 2,000 RPM for 15 min at 4° C. The nuclei are washed once in Buffer A and re-pelleted, then resuspended in 0.5 ml Buffer B (20 mM Tris pH 8.0, 0.25% glycerol, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 0.5 mM PMSF, 0.2 mM EDTA 0.5 mM DTT and 0.4 mM NaCl). The resuspended nuclei are incubated on ice for 15 minutes then spun at 15,000 RPM to pellet nuclear debris. The nuclear extract in the supernatant is separated from the pellet and used for assays for DNA MeTase activity. For each assay, carried out in triplicate, 3 μg of nuclear extract is used in a reaction mixture containing 0.1 μg of a synthetic 33-base pair hemimethylated DNA molecule substrate with 0.5 μCi S-[methyl- 3 H] adenosyl-L-methionine (78.9 Ci/mmol) as the methyl donor in a buffer containing 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 10 mM EDTA, 25% glycerol, 0.2 mM PMSF, and 20 mM 2-mercaptoethanol. The reaction mixture is incubated for 1 hour at 37° C. to measure the initial rate of the DNA MeTase. The reaction is stopped by adding 10% TCA to precipitate the DNA, then the samples are incubated at 4° C. for 1 hour and the TCA precipitates are washed through GFC filters (Fischer, Hampton, N.H.). Controls are DNA incubated in the reaction mixture in the absence of nuclear extract, and nuclear extract incubated in the reaction mixture in the absence of DNA. The filters are laid in scintillation vials containing 5 ml of scintillation cocktail and tritiated methyl groups incorporated into the DNA are counted in a β-scintillation counter according to standard methods. To measure inhibition of DNA MeTase expression, the specific activity of the nuclear extract from oligonucleotide-treated cells is compared with the specific activity of the extract from untreated cells. Treatment of cells with antisense oligonucleotides of the invention results in reduction in DNA MeTase activity in the nuclear extract. 
     EXAMPLE 2 
     Antisense Oligonucleotide Accumulation in Cells 
     Antisense oligonucleotides are labeled with  32 P using standard procedures. 300,000 Y1 cells per well are plated in a six-well tissue culture plate. Labeled antisense oligonucleotides are added to a final concentration of 1 μM. Cells are harvested at different time points by trypsinization according to methods well known in the art, and washed extensively with PBS to remove nonincorporated compounds. The cell pellet is resuspended in 20 μl buffer RIPA (0.5% deoxycholic acid, 0.1% SDS, 1% NP-40, in PBS). The homogenate is incubated at 4° C. for 30 minutes, then spun in a microfuge at maximum speed for 30 minutes, after which the supernatant is transferred to a new tube. Two μl of supernatant are extracted with phenol-chloroform by adding 1 μl of phenol and 1 μl of chloroform, the suspension is mixed and the organic and aqueous phases are separated by centrifugation in a microfuge for 10 minutes at 15,000 RPM. The aqueous phase is extracted and loaded onto a 20% polyacrylamide-urea gel. Visualization is by autoradiography. The results demonstrate that antisense oligonucleotides are taken up by the cells in a time-dependent manner. 
     EXAMPLE 3 
     Analysis of Cellular DNA Methylation in Cells Treated with Antisense Oligonucleotides 
     Nuclear extracts are prepared from randomer oligonucleotide-treated cells and from antisense oligonucleotide-treated cells (1 μM oligonucleotide) as described in Example 1. The DNA pellet is resuspended in 0.5 ml DNA extraction buffer (0.15M NaCl, 1% SDS, 20 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 5 mM EDTA), 100 Mg Proteinase K is added, and the suspension is incubated at 50° C. for 16 hours. The DNA is extracted in phenol-chloroform by adding 0.25 ml phenol and 0.25 ml chloroform. The suspension is mixed and the organic and aqueous phases are separated by centrifugation in a microfuge for 10 minutes at 15,000 RPM. One ml absolute ethanol is added to the aqueous phase and the DNA is precipitated by centrifugation in a microfuge for 15 minutes at 15,000 RPM. The DNA pellet is washed in 70% ethanol and re-pelleted by centrifugation. The DNA is resuspended in 100 μl 20 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 1 mM EDTA. 
     Two μg DNA are incubated at 37° C. for 15 minutes with 0.1 unit of DNase, 2.5 μl  32 P-α-dGTP (3000 Ci/mmol, Amersham, (Cleveland, Ohio) and then 2 units Kornberg DNA Polymerase (Boehringer Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany) are added and the reaction mixture is incubated for an additional 25 minutes at 30° C. Fifty μl H 2 O are then added and nonincorporated radioactivity is removed by spinning through a Microspin S-300 HR column (Pharmacia, Piscataway, N.J.). Labelled DNA (20 μl) is digested with 70 μg micrococcal nuclease (Pharmacia, Piscataway, N.J.) in the manufacturer&#39;s recommended buffer for 10 hours at 37° C. Equal amounts of radioactivity are loaded onto TLC phosphocellulose plates (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) and the 3′ mononucleotides are separated by chromatography in one direction, in 66:33:1 isobutyric acid/H 2 O/NH 4 OH. The chromatograms are exposed to XAR film (Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.) and the autoradiograms are scanned by laser densitometry (Scanalytics, CSPI, Billerica, Mass.). Spots corresponding to cytosine and 5-methylcytosine are quantified and the percentage of non-methylated CG dinucleotides is determined. The results are expected to demonstrate an overall reduction in the percentage of non-methylated CG dinucleotides in antisense oligonucleotide-treated cells, relative to randomer-treated cells. 
     To assess demethylation of specific genes, a procedure is carried out as generally described in J. Biol. Chem. 270: 12690-12696 (1995). Briefly, the genomic DNA (10 μg) is extracted and subjected to digestion by 25 units HindIII, followed by digestion by either 25 units MspI (CG methylation insensitive) or 25 units HpaII (CG methylation sensitive) for 8 hours at 37° C. The digested DNA is separated on a 1.5% agarose gel and subjected to Southern blotting and hybridization with specific probes. The results are expected to show that genes which are ordinarily heavily methylated in the test cells become undermethylated, whereas the methylation levels for genes which are not ordinarily heavily methylated in the test cells are not significantly affected. 
     EXAMPLE 4 
     Inhibition of Tumor Growth By Antisense Oligonucleotides 
     Y1 or H446 cells are plated on a 6 well plate at a density of 80,000 cells/well. Antisense oligonucleotide phosphorothioates complementary to a DNA MeTase noncoding region (about 0.5 to 20 μM) are added to the cells. The cells are similarly treated daily for 7 days. Then, the cells are harvested and 3,000 live cells are plated in soft agar, for example, as described in Freedman and Shin, Cell 3: 355-359 (1974). Two weeks after plating, the number of colonies formed in soft agar are scored by visual examination. In the case of active antisense oligonucleotides, a dose-dependent reduction in the number of colonies is observed. 
     Alternatively, 6 to 8 week old LAF-1 mice (Jackson Labs, Bar Harbor, Me.) are injected subcutaneously in the flank area with 2×10 6  Y1 cells. Three days later, the mice are injected with 1-5 mg/kg antisense oligonucleotide phosphorothioates complementary to a DNA MeTase noncoding region. This dosing is repeated every two days. After one month, the mice are sacrificed and the tumor size is determined according to standard protocols. (see e.g., Ramchandani et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. SCI. USA 94: 684-689 (1997) In the case of active antisense oligonucleotides, significant reduction in tumor size is observed, relative to controls treated with a randomized or a reverse antisense sequence. 
     EXAMPLE 5 
     Affinity Binding of DNA MeTase Enzyme 
     To demonstrate affinity binding of DNA MeTase enzyme, a binding substrate hairpin oligonucleotide having the sequence 5′-CTGAAmCGGATmCGTTTCGATCUGTTCAG-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 71) was provided at 4 μM concentration. The hairpin oligonucleotide was labeled using polynucleotide kinase and gamma  32 P-γ-ATP (300 mCi/mmol, 50 μCi) (New England Biolabs, Beverly, Mass.) as recommended by the manufacturer. Labeled oligonucleotide was separated from nonincorporated radioactivity by passing through a G-50 Sephadex spin column (Pharmacia, Uppsala, Sweden). Labeled hairpin oligonucleotide (500 nM) was incubated with 5 μg nuclear extract prepared as described in Example 1. The incubation, in the same buffer used for the DNA MeTase activity assay, was at 37° C. for 30 minutes. To determine whether complex formation was dependent on the cofactor SAM, the reaction was carried out both in the presence and the absence of SAM). Then, loading dye (0.3M Tris-HCl pH 8.8, 0.2% SDS, 10% glycerol, 28 mM 2-mercaptoethanol and 24 μg/ml bromophenol blue) was added and the sample was separated on a 5% SDS-polyacrylamide gel (SDS-PAGE) with a 4% stacking gel according to standard procedures. Following SDS-PAGE separation, the gel was exposed to autoradiography for visualization of a complex migrating at 190 kDa. Alternatively, the gel was electrotransferred onto a PVDF membrane (Amersham Life Sciences, Buckinghamshire, England) using a electrotransfer apparatus (BioRad, Hercules, Calif.) at 250 milliamperes for 2.5 hours in electrotransfer buffer (3.03 g/l Tris base, 14.4 g/l glycine, 1 g/l SDS, pH 8.3) for Western blotting with a DNA MeTase-specific antisera. The membrane was blocked for 1 hour in a buffer containing 5 mm Tris base, 200 mM NaCl, 0.5% Tween-20 and 5% dry milk. Rabbit antisera was raised according to standard procedures (see e.g.,  Molecular Cloning,  2d Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (1989)) against a peptide sequence found in the catalytic domain of human and murine DNA MeTase (amino acids GQRLPQKGDVENLKGGPPC; SEQ ID NO: 72). The antisera was added to the membrane at a 1:200 dilution and incubated for 1 hour. The membrane was washed with the blocking buffer, then reacted with a 1:5000 dilution of goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (Amersham, Cleveland, Ohio) for an additional hour. The membrane was then washed for 10 minutes in blocking buffer, three times, and bands reacting with anti-DNA MeTase antibody were visualized using an ECL detection kit according to the manufacturer protocols (Amersham, Cleveland, Ohio). 
     The results demonstrated that a 190 kDa complex is detected by both autoradiography and Western blotting (see FIG.  2 ), strongly indicating that the 190 kDa complex is formed between the hairpin oligonucleotide and DNA MeTase enzyme. Subsequent experiments using antisera raised against another peptide sequence found in the catalytic domain of human and murine DNA MeTase (amino acids GGPPCQGFSGMNRFNSRTY; SEQ ID NO: 73) (see, Ramchandani et al. supra) confirmed the same results. These results further demonstrated that such complex formation is independent of the cofactor SAM since none was present. Furthermore, data showed that complex formation is achieved within 30 minutes, thus suggesting that such complex formation provides an assay for the level of DNA MeTase in different cell samples and a method to purify methyltransferase by affinity binding. 
     EXAMPLE 6 
     Analysis of Treated Cells 
     Enzymatic activity profiles were performed to quantitate the ability of the synthetic oligonucleotides of the present invention to inhibit DNA methyltransferase expression. A549 cells (ATCC), and T24 cells (ATCC) were grown according to standard cell culture techniques. Cells were then treated for 24 hours with growth medium containing 250 nM of an antisense oligonucleotide complementary to a special target region of the DNA MeTase RNA transcript or a scrambled (negative control) oligonucleotide, and 10 μg/ml lipofectin. 
     Cells were then harvested and washed twice with PBS and the nuclei were pelleted by centrifugation in an Eppendorf microfuge at 2,000 RPM for 15 min at 4° C. The nuclei were washed once in Buffer A and re-pelleted, then resuspended in 0.5 ml Buffer B (20 mM Tris pH 8.0, 0.25% glycerol, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 0.5 mM PMSF, 0.2 mM EDTA 0.5 mM DTT and 0.4 mM NaCl). The resuspended nuclei were incubated on ice for 15 minutes then spun at 15,000 RPM to pellet nuclear debris. The nuclear extract in the supernatant was separated from the pellet and used for assays for DNA MeTase activity. For each assay, carried out in triplicate, 3 μg of nuclear extract was used in a reaction mixture containing 0.1 μg of a synthetic 33-base pair hemimethylated DNA molecule substrate with 0.5 μCi S-[methyl- 3 H] adenosyl-L-methionine (78.9 Ci/mmol) as the methyl donor in a buffer containing 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 10 mM EDTA, 25% glycerol, 0.2 mM PMSF, and 20 mM 2-mercaptoethanol. The reaction mixture was incubated for 1 hour at 37° C. to measure the initial rate of the DNA MeTase. The reaction was stopped by adding 10% TCA to precipitate the DNA, then the samples were incubated at 4° C. for 1 hour and the TCA precipitates were washed through GFC filters (Fischer). Control were DNA samples incubated in the reaction mixture in the absence of nuclear extract, and nuclear extract incubated in the reaction mixture in the absence of DNA. The filters were laid in scintillation vials containing 5 ml of scintillation cocktail and tritiated methyl groups incorporated into the DNA are counted in a β-scintillation counter according to standard methods. To normalize and thus compare specific activity of the nuclear extracts from cells treated with various synthetic oligonucleotide both DNA MeTase and G3PDH activity were measured. FIG. 3 shows DNA MeTase enzymatic activity observed in A549 cells treated with 26 different synthetic oligonucleotides as indicated. Similar results were observed when using T24 cells. Note that values were expressed as a percentage of activity observed in cells treated with scrambled synthetic oligonucleotides. The results show that the treatment of cells with antisense oligonucleotides of the invention results in reduction in DNA MeTase activity in the nuclear extracts. 
     EXAMPLE 7 
     Inhibition of Tumor Growth in Vivo 
     Ten to twelve week old female BALB/c nude mice (Taconic Labs, Great Barrington, N.Y.) were injected subcutaneously in the flank area with 2×10 6  preconditioned A549 human lung carcinoma cells. Preconditioning of these cells was done by a minimum of three consecutive tumor transplantations in the same strain of nude mice. Subsequently, tumor fragments of approximately 25 mgs were excised and implanted subcutaneously in mice, in the left flank area under Forene anestesia (Abbott Labs., Geneva, Switzerland). When the tumors reached a mean volume of 100 mm 3 , the mice were treated intravenously, by daily bolous infusion into the tail vein, with oligonucleotide saline preparations containing 2 mg/Kg of oligonucleotide according to the present invention. The optimal final concentration of the oligonucleotide is established by dose response experiments according to standard protocols. Tumor volume was calculated according to standard methods every second day post infusion. (e.g., Meyer et al. Int. J. Cancer 43:851-856 (1989)). Treatment with the oligonucleotides of the invention caused a significant reduction in tumor weight and volume relative to controls treated with randomized or reverse antisense sequence (data not shown). In addition, the activity of DNA MeTase enzyme was measured and found to be significantly reduced relative to randomer treated controls. These results show that the oligonucleotides according to the invention are capable of inhibiting MeTase enzymatic activity and tumor growth. 
     EXAMPLE 8 
     DNA MeTase Gene Organization and Structure 
     Information regarding the chromosomal organization of the human DNA MeTase gene is useful for (a) a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms that underlie the regulation of DNA MeTase expression in oncogenic progression and developmental processes (e.g., analysis of potential alternative splicing products, regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters reside in intronic genomic regions), and (b) for designing antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides according to the invention. In order to obtain overlapping DNA fragments spanning the entire human DNA MeTase gene, several cDNA fragments spanning the known human DNA MeTase cDNA were generated via RT-PCR (mRNA source Hela and A549 cells) (FIG. 4A) and used as probes to screen human genomic DNA libraries from lung and placenta, in Lambda FIX II (Stratagene). The cDNA probes spanned the entire known human cDNA sequence (Yen et al., 1992 and Yoder et al., 1996). Genomic inserts were isolated from the phages by NotI digestion and sub-cloned into NotI linearized pBluescript SK+. Sub-clones were digested with restriction endonucleases (X=Xba 1, B=Bam H1, H=Hind III) Southern blotted and hybridized to exon specific  32 P labelled oligodeoxyribonucleotides or cDNA probes to produce a scale restriction map of the human DNA MeTase gene. Sub-clones were exon sequenced to determine exon-intron boundaries. Intron sizes were determined by either DNA sequencing (for introns less than 150 bp), PCR using 5′ and 3′ flanking exon sequences as primer sources (for introns less than 2 Kb) and restriction enzyme-Southern blot analysis using the enzymes indicated in A (data not shown) using oligonucleotides for each specific exon to verify the restriction enzyme. For larger introns (&gt;2 kb), the distance between the exons was estimated by restriction enzyme analysis of phage insert and mapping the exons to the different restriction fragments using exon specific oligonucleotide probes (see physical map in FIG. 4A) The physical map obtained by restriction enzyme analysis of phage DNA (FIG. 4A) was verified by a restriction enzyme-Southern blot analysis of human genomic DNA. Genomic DNA was prepared as described previously (Sambrook et al. 1989) from human lung carcinoma A549 cells (ATCC: CCL-185) and human bladder carcinoma cells: T24 (ATCC: HTB-4) and digested with restriction endonucleases Xba 1 (X), Bam H1 (B), or Hind III (H), electrophoresed on a 1.5% agarose gel and Southern blotted. The fragments encoding the different segments of the human DNA MeTase mRNA were visualized by hybridization to the following cDNA probes: 1. A probe bearing the first exon. 2. A probe bearing exons  3 - 5  (starting spanning nucleotides  415 - 740  of the known cDNA) 3. A probe bearing exons  7 - 20  4. A probe spanning exons  30 - 40 . The cDNA probes are indicated under the map of the exon-intron structure, the dashed lines delineate the boundaries of exons spanned by each of the probes. The fragments visualized by each of the restriction enzymes are indicated by different shaded arrows. The size of the visualized fragments is indicated next to the arrows. The size of the fragments visualized by each of the probes corresponds to the size predicted by the restriction enzyme analysis of the genomic phages. The fragments predicted by the physical map of the different phages (FIG. 4A) were visualized with the cDNA probes in the Southern blots of genomic DNA (FIG. 4C, arrows indicate the restriction enzyme fragments, and their sizes, visualized with each cDNA probe). The positions of exons determined by PCR analysis were verified by Southern blot analysis. The following primers were used to map by PCR the relevant intron boundaries and sizes: exons  4  to  5 : sense: 5′-aaacgggaaccaagcaagaa (SEQ ID NO: 74); antisense: 5′-tgagatgtgatggtggttt (SEQ ID NO: 75); exons  5  to  6 : sense: 5′-ctgaaccttcacctagcccc (SEQ ID NO: 76); antisense: gatggactcatccgatttgg (SEQ ID NO: 77); exons  6  to  7 : sense: 5′-ccctgccaaacggaaacctc (SEQ ID NO: 78); antisense: 5′-gttctctggatgtaactcta (SEQ ID NO: 79); exons  7  to  8 : sense: agacgtagagttacatccag (SEQ ID NO: 80); antisense: 5′-gctctttcaggttcttctgc (SEQ ID NO: 81); exons  9  to  10 : sense: 5′-aagaaaagagactccgaagt (SEQ ID NO: 82); antisense: tttctcgtctccatcttcgt (SEQ ID NO: 83); exons  10  to  11 : sense: 5′-gtcagcccttaggagctgtt (SEQ ID NO: 84); antisense: 5′-ggaaacagctatgaccatg ((SEQ ID NO: 85; M13 reverse primer); exons  11  to  12 : sense: 5′-gatgagaagaagcacagaag (SEQ ID NO: 86); antisense 5′-tcatcctcgtctttttcatcagaa (SEQ ID NO: 87); exons  12  to  13 : sense: 5′-ttctgatgaaaaagacgaggatga (SEQ ID NO: 88); antisense: 5′-cattaccatctgctttggat (SEQ ID NO: 89); exons  13  to  14 : sense: 5′-aggagaagagacgcaaaacg (SEQ ID NO: 90); antisense: 5′-agttcatgactgttttggcg (SEQ ID NO: 91); exons  17  to  18 ; sense: 5′-gtactgtaagcacggtcacc (SEQ ID NO: 92); antisense: 5-aggtgctgaagccgatgagg (SEQ ID NO: 93); exons  18  to  19 : sense: 5′-tggatcactggctttgatgg (SEQ ID NO: 94); antisense: 5′-ctcgatcttgttgatcaggt (SEQ ID NO: 95); exons  21  to  22 : sense: 5′-aggcgagcccaggcgaggcg (SEQ ID NO: 96); antisense: 5′-cgctcttggcaagcctgcttg (SEQ ID NO: 97); exons  22  to  23 : sense: 5′-gtgtcagcagcctgagtgtg (SEQ ID NO: 98); antisense: 5′-ctccgacccaagagatgcga (SEQ ID NO: 99); exons  23  to  24 : sense: gtcccaatatggccatgaag (SEQ ID NO: 100); antisense: 5′-gctagatacagcggttttgagg (SEQ ID NO: 101); exons  24  to  25 : sense: 5′-cgtcaagactgatgggaagaagagt (SEQ ID NO: 102); antisense: 5′-ctccatggcccagttttcgg (SEQ ID NO: 103); exons  25  to  26 : sense: 5′-gtcacggcgctgtgggagga (SEQ ID NO: 104); antisense: 5′-ttgaacttgttgtcctctgt (SEQ ID NO: 105); exons  26  to  27 : sense: 5′-gacctacttctaccagctgt (SEQ ID NO: 106); antisense: 5-ttgaacgtgaaggcctcagg (SEQ ID NO: 107); exons  27  to  28 : sense: 5′-ctctactactcagccaccaa (SEQ ID NO: 108); antisense: 5′-tagaacttgttgacccgga (SEQ ID NO: 109); exons  28  to  29 : sense: 5′-tgagactgacatcaaaatcc (SEQ ID NO: 110); antisense: 5′-cgaggaagtagaagcggtg (SEQ ID NO: 111); exons  29  to  30 : sense: 5′-cgagtgcgtccaggtgtact (SEQ ID NO: 112); antisense: 5′-cttccctttgtttccagggc (SEQ ID NO: 113); exons  31  to  32 : sense: 5′-gaagggcaagcccaagtccc (SEQ ID NO: 114); antisense: 5′-agccatgaccagcttcagca (SEQ ID NO: 115); exons  32  to  33 : sense: 5′-tgctgaagctggtcatggct (SEQ ID NO: 116); antisense: 5′-cctgcagcacgccgaaggtg (SEQ ID NO: 117); exons  33  to  34 : sense: 5′-tccttcaagcgctccatggt (SEQ ID NO: 118); antisense: 5′-tagtctgggccacgccgtac (SEQ ID NO: 119); exons  34  to  35 : sense: 5′-ccggtcagtacggcgtggcc (SEQ ID NO: 120); antisense: 5′-agatctccagtgccgaggct (SEQ ID NO: 121); exons  35  to  36 : sense: 5′-tgagctcgggtcctttccgg (SEQ ID NO: 122); antisense: 5′-tccacgcaggagcagacccc (SEQ ID NO: 123); exons  36  to  37 : sense: 5′-tcagacggcaccatggccag (SEQ ID NO: 124); antisense: 5′-cttgcccatgggctcggggt (SEQ ID NO: 125); exons  37  to  38 : sense: 5′-ctctatggaaggctcgagtg (SEQ ID NO: 126); antisense: 5′-cggtgcttgtccaggatgtt (SEQ ID NO: 127); exons  38  to  39 : sense: 5′-ctgacacctaccggctcttc (SEQ ID NO: 128); antisense: 5′-ggcactctctcgggctttgg (SEQ ID NO: 129); exons  39  to  40 : sense: 5′-ggagatcaagctttgtatgt (SEQ ID NO: 130); antisense: 5′-gtccttagcagcttcctcct (SEQ ID NO: 131). The following introns were determined by sequencing: exons  2  to  3 ;  3  to  4 ;  14  to  15 ;  15  to  16 ;  19  to  20 ;  20  to  21 ;  30  to  31 . The following introns were determined by restriction mapping: exons  1  to  2  (using the following oligonucleotides as probes: exon  1 : 5′-cgcctgcggacatcgtcgggcagc (SEQ ID NO: 132); T3: 5′-aattaaccctcactaaaggg (SEQ ID NO: 133); T7: 5′-gtaatacgactcactatagggc (SEQ ID NO: 134)) ;  8  to  9  (using the following oligonucleotides as probes: exon  8 : 5′-gctctttcaggttcttctgc (SEQ ID NO: 135); exon  9 : 5′-aagaaaagagactccgaagt (SEQ ID NO: 136));  16  to  17  (using the following oligonucleotides as probes: exon  16 : 5′-tgagccacagatgctgacaaa (SEQ ID NO: 137); exon  17 : 5′-gtactgtaagcacggtcacc (SEQ ID NO: 138)). The results of the cloning, sequencing and mapping experiments demonstrate that the 5.2 kilobase cDNA for the human DNA MeTase, is organised as 40 exons and 39 introns, with completely conserved splice acceptor and donor sites (FIG.  5 ), on 60 kilobases of chromosome 19p13.2-13.3 (FIG.  4 B). This gene can therefore be classified as a “large gene” similar to Rb (70 kb) and apolipoprotein B (79.5 kb). 
     The functional domains of the DNA MeTase appear to be grouped together as a number of small exons and introns separated from neighbouring domains by large introns (FIG.  4 B). First, exons  6 - 8  code for the nuclear localization signal and exist within an isolated cluster that contains exons  2 - 8  and flanked by the large introns  1  and  8  (12 and 11 kilobases respectively). Second, the region described to be critical for targeting of the enzyme to replication foci (FTR) is coded for by exons  13 - 20 . These exons are organized into two distinct chromosomal regions, exons  13 - 16  make up the first region, and exons  17 - 20  make up the second, and are separated by the large intron  16  (6000 bases). Third, the region responsible for zinc binding is coded for by exon  22 , and in its genomic organization, along with exon  23 , is isolated by the large flanking introns  21  and  23 . Fourth, the catalytic domain of the enzyme is coded for by exons  30 - 39 . The catalytic domain of all of the known CpG methyltransferases share 10 conserved motifs of which  1 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 9 , and  10  appear to be essential for catalytic activity. Conserved motif  1  is entirely contained within exon  31  and codes for the AdoMet binding peptide. Conserved motif  4  is entirely contained within exon  32  and contains the Pro-Cys motif that catalyzes methyl transfer. Fifth, two postulated translation initiation codons exist (FIG. 4B) and the genomic organization of the exons in which they reside suggests that they form distinctly different structural motifs. The antisense oligonucleotide of the invention hybridize to the target intron-exon boundary by Watson and Crick hybridization and effectively mask the splice junction. There is confidence that this approach can be successfully exploited for DNA MeTase because the gene offers 78 unique intron-exon junctions (FIG. 5) for antisense oligonucleotide development. 
     
       
         
           
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             Homo sapiens 
           
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tcggggcagg gtggcggggg taggaggcag cgccgagcgg ctggctggaa gagagtggtg     60
tgatggacgg gcagcttcct gtgtgctcca agggatgagc ctcgtcgggc g             111 
           
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             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
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tttccccatg ttttcttcta ggagcactat agtttcaggt cttatgttta atctttaata     60
agttttgtgt ttttgtatat ggtgtaaggt aagggtccaa cttcattctt ttgtatgtgg    120
ttatacagtt ttctcagcac catttgttaa agacacaatc tttcccccat gttctggtgc    180
tttaaaaaaa aaaaaaatcc tggctggtta cggtggctta ggcctataat cccagcactt    240
tgggaggctg aggcaagtgg actgcttgag gctaggagtc ccagactagc ctggccaaca    300
tggtgaaacc ctgtctctac caccgaagat acaaaaatta gccaggcgtg gtggagtacg    360
cctgtaatcc cagcctacta gggaggctga ggcatgagaa tcgcttgaac ctgggaggca    420
gaggttgcag tgagccaaga tctcaccact gcacgccagc cggggtgaca gagtgaggca    480
gggtcttacc ctgtcgccca ggcaggagtc cagtggccca atcatggctc attgcagcct    540
acactgccag ggttcaagcc atcctcccac ctcagcctcc caagtagcta ggattacagg    600
tgtgtgtcac catcccagca aatcttgtat ttttgtagag atgggtatcc ctatgttgct    660
caggctggtc ttgaactcct aacctcaagc gatcctccca cctgggcctc tcaaagcact    720
gggtacaggc gtgagccact gcgcctgaca tggtgcttct taatttattc ttacttttta    780
tttttatttt tttgagacaa ggtcttgctc tgtctcccag gctggaatgt agtggtacaa    840
tcatggctca ctgcaacctc tgcctctccg gttcaagtga tcttcctgcc tcaacctctg    900
gagtagtttg gactatgggc acatgccaca acgactagct aatttttgtt tttctttttt    960
tctttctttc tttctttctt tctttttttt tttttttgag atgcagtttc tctatgttac   1020
ctaggctggt ctaaaactcc tgggctcaag cgatcctccc accctggcct cccaaagtgc   1080
tgggatgaca ggcgtgagcc acgtggtgct taaaaaaggc aacaaaaaac cccccacaca   1140
ctgggtatag aagtggcatg gggcctctat acactgtgag attcttggta ctagctacaa   1200
attctgtgta tactcaagat tttctagagt aggtggcaat taccccgttt tacagatgag   1260
gacacagagg ctgagccgta gtgacccacc taaggtcgta tagccagcaa atagatggag   1320
gttggattgg aaactgagga ctttactcaa gggctctcac aacccttggg gggcttctcg   1380
ctgctttatc cccatcacac ctgaaagaat gaatgaatga atgcctcggg caccgtgccc   1440
acctcccagg aaacgtggag cttggacgag cccactcgtc cgcgtggggg gggtgtgtgc   1500
ccgccttgcg catgcgtgtt ccctgggcat ggccggctcc gttccatcct tctgcacagg   1560
gtatcgcctc tctccgtttg gtacatcccc tcctccccca cgcccggact ggggtggtag   1620
acgcgcctcc gctcatcgcc cctccccatc ggtttccgcg cgaaaagccg gggcgcctgc   1680
gctgccgccg ccgcgtctgc tgaagcctcc gagatgccgg cgcgtaccgc cccagcccgg   1740
gtgcccacac tggccgtccc ggccatctcg ctgcccgacg atgtccgcag gcggtaggta   1800
ccatgggggg gaacacggac tcagggggac aggcagggcg ctgggtgggg ggtcgcttcc   1860
cctcggggtg gccggtggcg ctgctgacag acgggcgcgc atggctgggg tggtgcggcg   1920
cgcagcgcag ttggcgcggg cagggtggca cttccggtcg cgcgtgcccg ggctgtttgg   1980
cgccaaaatg gaccgtggat tcccccgtag ctccctggtg gctagaaact aggcggggtg   2040
ggcctctctt ttgatcccca aatacagctt tccccatgtt ttcttctagg agcactatag   2100
tttcaggtct tatgtttaat ctttaataag ttttgtgttt ttgtatatgg tgtaaggtaa   2160
gggtccaact tcattctttt gtatgtggtt atacagtttt ctcagcacca tttgttaaag   2220
acacaatctt tcccccatgt tctggtgctt taaaaaaaaa aaaaatcctg gctggttacg   2280
gtggcttagg cctataatcc cagcactttg ggaggctgag gcaagtggac tgcttgaggc   2340
taggagtccc agactagcct ggccaacatg gtgaaaccct gtctctacca ccgaagatac   2400
aaaaattagc caggcgtggt ggagtacgcc tgtaatccca gcctactagg gaggctgagg   2460
catgagaatc gcttgaacct gggaggcaga ggttgcagtg agccaagatc tcaccactgc   2520
acgccagccg gggtgacaga gtgaggcagg gtcttaccct gtcgcccagg caggagtcca   2580
gtggcccaat catggctcat tgcagcctac actgccaggg ttcaagccat cctcccacct   2640
cagcctccca agtagctagg attacaggtg tgtgtcacca tcccagcaaa tcttgtattt   2700
ttgtagagat gggtatccct atgttgctca ggctggtctt gaactcctaa cctcaagcga   2760
tcctcccacc tgggcctctc aaagcactgg gtacaggcgt gagccactgc gcctgacatg   2820
gtgcttctta atttattctt actttttatt tttatttttt tgagacaagg tcttgctctg   2880
tctcccaggc tggaatgtag tggtacaatc atggctcact gcaacctctg cctctccggt   2940
tcaagtgatc ttcctgcctc aacctctgga gtagtttgga ctatgggcac atgccacaac   3000
gactagctaa tttttgtttt tctttttttc tttctttctt tctttctttc tttttttttt   3060
tttttgagat gcagtttctc tatgttacct aggctggtct aaaactcctg ggctcaagcg   3120
atcctcccac cctggcctcc caaagtgctg ggatgacagg cgtgagccac gtggtgctta   3180
aaaaaggcaa caaaaaaccc cccacacact gggtatagaa gtggcatggg gcctctatac   3240
actgtgagat tcttggtact agctacaaat tctgtgtata ctcaagattt tctagagtag   3300
gtggcaatta ccccgtttta cagatgagga cacagaggct gagccgtagt gacccaccta   3360
aggtcgtata gccagcaaat agatggaggt tggattggaa actgaggact ttactcaagg   3420
gctctcacaa cccttggggg gcttctcgct gctttatccc catcacacct gaaagaatga   3480
atgaatgaat gcctcgggca ccgtgcccac ctcccaggaa acgtggagct tggacgagcc   3540
cactcgtccg cgtggggggg gtgtgtgccc gccttgcgca tgcgtgttcc ctgggcatgg   3600
ccggctccgt tccatccttc tgcacagggt atcgcctctc tccgtttggt acatcccctc   3660
ctcccccacg cccggactgg ggtggtagac gcgcctccgc tcatcgcccc tccccatcgg   3720
tttccgcgcg aaaagccggg gcgcctgcgc tgccgccgcc gcgtctgctg aagcctccga   3780
gatgccggcg cgtaccgccc cagcccgggt gcccacactg gccgtcccgg ccatctcgct   3840
gcccgacgat gtccgcaggc ggtaggtacc atggggggga acacggactc agggggacag   3900
gcagggcgct gggtgggggg tcgcttcccc tcggggtggc cggtggcgct gctgacagac   3960
gggcgcgcat ggctggggtg gtgcggcgcg cagcgcagtt ggcgcgggca gggtggcact   4020
tccggtcgcg cgtgcccggg ctgtttggcg ccaaaatgga ccgtggattc ccccgtagct   4080
ccctggtggc tagaaactag gcggggtggg cctctctttt gatccccaaa tacagc       4136 
           
             3 
             87 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            3
aggaggtctt gcctcaaact tgccggctta aaggacatac atttattacc ttatgtccag     60
ggtcagaaat ctgatgcggg tttcacc                                         87 
           
             4 
             4460 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            4
tctagagctc gcggccgcga cgtcaattaa ccctcactaa agggagtcga ctcgatcgcc     60
ctatgttgtc cagggctgga ctcgaactcc tgcccacaag ccatcctccc accacagcct    120
cctgagtagc tggggttaca ggcacgcagc accgcggcac tgcaccggct tttgttcttt    180
tatttttttc cctctttgtc cctgaaagag tcaagctact aattgtcagt aatcaaatca    240
gaccacgatt tcccaggcaa actcctggca gttctacatt taggaatgac tagctagaga    300
catcctgaag aatgagttat tcggggaggc gccacgacct cctctaactt cacctctatc    360
tgccctctgt gtgggtaccc cttgcttccc tggatgcttg actcccccat ttcatcctca    420
aaatgccacc accccccacc aggcctttag gaacatcagc tggctgttcc ccacagtgtc    480
ctgtggccct gggctactca ttctgacact ggccatactg tggcacacct tgttatgggc    540
tgttgtcaga cccaactgga gaaagaccag ctgtaggtca tttcccttac gggagtgccc    600
caactatatg acctgccccc tctttcctgg tatctttttg agtcagggtc tcactctgtc    660
tcctagattg gagtgcagtg atgcaatcac ggctcactgt ggcctcgacc tcccaggctc    720
aggtgatctt cttctcagcc tcccaagtaa ctgggaccac aagcacatgc caccaaaccc    780
agttattttt attttatttt attttatttt attttgagac agagtttcac tcttgttgcc    840
caggctagag tgcaatggtg tgaccagctc actgcaacct ctgcctcccg ggttcaagtg    900
attctcctgc tcagcctcca agttgctggg attacagcca cccaccaccc acgcctggct    960
aatttttgta tttttagtag agatggggtt tcgccatgtt ggccaggctg gtctcaaacc   1020
cttgacctca ggtaatccac ccaccttggc cctcaggtaa tccacccaac tgctgctgta   1080
tgttgggatt ccaggcatca gccaccacgc ccagccacta atttttgtat ttttgtagag   1140
atggagtttc gccatgtttc ccaggctggt ctgaacgcct gggctcaagt gatccgctcg   1200
ccttggcctc ccaaagagct gggattataa gcgtgagcca ccatgcctgg tctctggtac   1260
cttttaaaat atacaggctg ggcatgatgg ctcatgcctg taatcccagc actttgggag   1320
gctgaggcag gtggatcgcc tgaggtcggg agttcgaaac ctagcctgac caacacggag   1380
aaaccctgtc tctgctaaaa atataaaatt agctgggtga tggtggtgca tgcctgtaat   1440
ccagctactc gggaggctga gccaggagaa tcgcttgaac ctgggagtcg gaggtttgag   1500
ctgagatcac accattgcac tccagcctgg gcaacaagag caaaacccta tctcaaaaaa   1560
aaaaaatata tatatatata tatatatata tacacagcta tatatagcgt atatatatat   1620
acacacacat atgtatacat atatacgtat gtatacacat atatacgtat atatacacat   1680
atatatgtat atatacacac atatacgtgt atatatatac gtgtatatat atatgcatgc   1740
cagacaaggt gactcatgcc tgtaatccta gcacttcagg agactgaggc aggcggattc   1800
acttgaggtc aggaatctaa gaccaggctt aaccaacatg gtgaaaccct gtctctactc   1860
aaaatacaaa aaattaacga ggctggtggc acctataatc ccagctactt gggagggctg   1920
aggtgagaga atcacttgaa cccagaaggt gagggttgca gtgagctgag atcgcaccac   1980
tgcactccac ctgggcaaca gagcgagact ccatgtctgt ctgtctgtct atctatctgt   2040
ataatgtata tgtatgtatg tatatatgtg tgtgtatata tatacacata tatacataca   2100
tatatacaca catactctgt tacagagctg ctgtgtgtgt gtgtatatat atatacacat   2160
atgtatatat acacatatac acatatatat gtatatatat acacacatat atatacacat   2220
atatatgtat atatatacac acatatatat acacatatat atgatatata tacacatata   2280
tatgtatata tatacacaca cacacacata cacataattg tgttacagag ctgctatgta   2340
atctcacaat catcagaaaa atgaccccca aaaggggaac cttgttcaga tcagatgact   2400
tcttagcatt aggcattcca gtaggacact ctagactctt gcggggagac aaaagccagc   2460
ttagtttttt ctaacactca tatgttaaac ttgtttgtgt ccaaaacttc tttagaactg   2520
tgatattctt acaggcaaat gaagttgctt aacaagtgtt tgtattttct ccctatttct   2580
tcctccaggc tcaaagattt ggaaagagac agcttaacag aaaaggtaat ctcctcctta   2640
aaatttttct tattaccaaa tctgactgac acactttgtg gctcataaaa agaaatttgt   2700
tttctttaaa tggattttgc attttttccc atggagtttc aaagataatt tggatattct   2760
tgttaaatgt cagcactaat ttgctgctaa tagttgggtg gtggtggtgt ttttttttgt   2820
tgttgttttt gttttttgag acagagtctc actctgtcac ccaggctaga gtgcaatggc   2880
atgatctcgg cctcactgtg acctctgcct cccggattca agctgttctc ctgcctcagc   2940
ctcccaagta gctgggacta caggcacgca ccaccatgcc cagctaattt ttatattatt   3000
agtagagatg gggtttacca tgttggccag actggtcttg aacgcctgct cgtgatctgc   3060
ccaccttggc ctcccaaagt gctggaatta caggcgtgac gaccatgcct ggcccaggtt   3120
tttttttttt ttaaccaatc tcagttccta aacaactcta ctctggattg taacttgtcc   3180
tggtaacact gttttattgt gtttttgtta ttgttttgag atagggctct cattctgtag   3240
cccaggctgg agtgcagtgg cacaattttg gctcactgca accttcgcct cccaggctca   3300
agtgattttc ccactcagcc tcctgagtag ctctaactac aggctcaagc caccatgccc   3360
agctaatttt taaatatttt ttgtaaagat gggattttgt catgttgccc caggctggtc   3420
ttgaactctg gggctcaaag caatccactt gcctcggcct cccaaagtgc tgggattata   3480
ggtgtgagcc actgtgcctg ggccgacact ttacagaagc acagtattat tcttataaac   3540
catgatatgt ctccatctca cctccagctt tcccattttt caccactttg gagacaggag   3600
tgaagtgatc ctaatggaaa ttccctgaac acatttcatg actgtttagt gttttgactg   3660
agacagcatt gcctgccatt cactcattgt gatgtgatca ggcagctcaa taatttgtgt   3720
attagtccac tagtgaatag cttgggaatg tgggtactgc taaacctata tccttccctt   3780
aggaatgtgt gaaggagaaa ttgaatctct tgcacgaatt tctgcaaaca gaaataaaga   3840
atcagttatg tgacttggaa accaaattac gtaaagaaga attatccgag gtaagtcagt   3900
tctcagcatc ctagcctcta gaaaaatgtc tcctcctagt aacttgtctg tgaccaggga   3960
ggcagcaaga tccccagctg tcctcattgc ctgatgatga tgatgatgat gatgatgatg   4020
aagaacacat gtgttctgtc tctgacacgt gttacattca ctgctactaa ttatcctgtc   4080
ctgctgtagg agggctacct ggctaaagtc aaatccctgt taataaagat tttgtccttg   4140
agaacggtgc tcatgcttac aaccggaagt gaatggacgt ctagaaaacg ggaaccaagc   4200
aagaagtgaa gcccgtagag tgggaatggc agatgccaac agccccccca aacccctttc   4260
caaacctcgc acgcccagga ggagcaagtc cgatggagag gctaagcgta agagcagatg   4320
attcctttta tttttaattg tttttgagat ggagtctcac tgtgttgccc agtctggagc   4380
acagtggtgt aacctcggct cactgtaacc tctgcctcca ggttcaagag accctcctgc   4440
ctcagcctcc caagtaactg                                               4460 
           
             5 
             348 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            5
gccaacatta gcaagctggt tgttgactag aataaaaatg caaagatgct agtccttaga     60
acctgggctt cctgcaatag cttagtaatg ttgaactgca ttattgctgt gggctttcta    120
ttgatagtgg cttttttttt tctttttaat gctttttctt ctttaaacag ctgaaccttc    180
acctagcccc aggattacaa ggaaaagcac caggcaaacc accatcacat ctcattttgc    240
aaaggggtca gtatacgata aattggcggc tgcctttttt aggggccggc tgttttggga    300
tggaattggt agggcgtcac gtggcaattc tgtcttccgt gttgtata                 348 
           
             6 
             454 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            6
tctctgacac tagcagctgt tgatcggtgt ttagacccgt gatttcttag gacttacaag     60
atggcaagac aacattctaa acccgtcatt cagagaaaca ttaaacttga agcctctttc    120
aacatcctgg tgaatgaggg tccacttcag gccagctgga ggcctagggt cttgttccac    180
taatggttgg cctcactgtg tgtgacagcc ctgccaaacg gaaacctcag gaagagtctg    240
aaagagccaa atcggatgag tccatcaagg aagaagacaa agaccaggta gggccagtgc    300
tttcatttcc tgactctacc ttacttggtg tatttgatga ttgtgacttc atatgtgttc    360
tgtccaagta aataaaaacc ctgtctaggg ctctatttag ggctctccag agagacagga    420
ccaatagaat gtatatgtgt gtatcaacgt atag                                454 
           
             7 
             305 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            7
gttttggggt tggtggggat taataccaga gtaagagttt ctcagatctt ctcccctttt     60
cccaggcccc ttcttttccc actcttgctc taaccatgtc aaatgtgtta atatttcaac    120
tcacactttt ggtgttgacc ttcccttgaa accagtattc taatcttttt tgttcttcct    180
tccctccaca caggatgaga agagacgtag agttacatcc agagaacggt aagaatagtt    240
actatacctt tctttttgtt ctacgagttg tgtaatcttg atcacaaaac tttttcagaa    300
agttt                                                                305 
           
             8 
             223 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            8
cagggctccg agataagtaa gattgctttt ggggaaaaga ggagctttat gaaaactgct     60
tctttgggga agctcctggc actcacactt ggggtctgtg ttattttgct tgacagagtt    120
gctagaccgc ttcctgcaga agaacctgaa agagcaaaat caggaacgcg cactgaaaag    180
gaagaagaaa gagatgaaaa agtaaagctc tatcacctct aag                      223 
           
             9 
             396 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            9
tacaggcgtg agctactgtg cccactggta gacagtcttt actcccacca gtgactctag     60
aatcagttca ggtgttttat ttccatagga cactttaata gaaagatcca aaccaaatgg    120
aaaaaattaa cttgtctttt ttccctgcaa cttaggaaga aaagagactc cgaagtcaaa    180
ccaaagaacc gtaagtgcag cgaacctgcc tttgtgcttt gttgtgaaac tgaattgcta    240
acataagtat cttggtaaaa taacgggttg gtgtggaaca gtgggcgcta atcatatgtc    300
tcttatgtgg gcaagttctg cttgtgaaag gtgagaccac cctgaagtga aggctgaagt    360
taactttttt aactttaatt taatttaatt taattt                              396 
           
             10 
             43 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            10
cttcagtttc tgtttgggtg ttggttcttt ggtttgactt cgg                       43 
           
             11 
             254 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            11
tgagtcctga gtagtaaatc gtctggcttc ctgcagtgaa gacaggagag gcagcctgtc     60
ctctgaacct ggggaggagc ttgtgtcagc ccttaggagc tgttggcccc ggtgcagggc    120
cccccccgag ctgaccagcc tgtgtgtgtg ttgtcttctg tgacagaaca cccaaacaga    180
aactgaagga ggagccggac agagaagcca gggcaggcgt gcaggctgac gaggacgaag    240
atggagacga gaaa                                                      254 
           
             12 
             281 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            12
agaaactaat tttttccctt ctttatctct ctacctcccc cttatttttc tgtcaggatg     60
agaagaagca cagaagtcaa cccaaagatc tgcaagtgtt taaaatgctt gtgcttttgt    120
gtcatctgga tcagtagaaa gcctgttcta ggccaaggtg tggtggcttg cacctgtaat    180
cccagctcaa agggaggctg aggtgggtga atcacctgag gtcaggagtt cgagaccagc    240
ctagcctggc caacatggtg gaaccctgtc tgtactaaaa a                        281 
           
             13 
             249 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            13
atcttggctt tcccatgggg aggcattagt ttgtcacttt ccgtgcgagt tggcgatgtg     60
gttagtgttt ctaagcttgc tacttgctgt gtatctgttc accctgcaga gctgccaaac    120
ggaggcccga agaaaaagaa cctgaaaaag taaatccaca gatttctgat gaaaaagacg    180
aggatgaaaa ggtaaaggtc tcacttttct ttctttcttt tttttttttt ttttttcccc    240
aagacgggg                                                            249 
           
             14 
             291 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            14
gactataaga tttgtattct atgactttag atggtagagt gagtcagagc tcacctgctg     60
gccctctcac tgcctccctc cccttctctc tgttttatga taatcactta tacaaagttc    120
ttaacaccga agcactatct gggaggaaaa cactctctta gcctttaatc ctcttttgtt    180
ttccctgtgt aggagaagag acgcaaaacg acccccaaag aaccgtaaga atttattctt    240
gacattatcc aaagcagatg gtaatgttaa aatgatggtt ctagaacaaa a             291 
           
             15 
             491 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            15
caacgatctt gtgatttttt tttcccccag aacggagaaa aaaatggctc gcgccaaaac     60
agtcatgaac tccaaggtaa acatctgccg ggaataaagc cggtggcggc gctcacgagc    120
ggctgggagc tgctctctga gtgccatcat ctgtgttcct gctcccacag acccaccctc    180
ccaagtgcat tcagtgcggg cagtacctgg acgaccctga cctcaaatat gggcagcacc    240
caccagacgc ggttcgtaca gctctcttcc cagccttcct ctgcctgtcc cttgtcccac    300
tgctcaccag ccccgtgtcc ttcaggtgga tgagccacag atgctgacaa atgagaagct    360
gtccatcttt gatgccaacg agtctggctt tgagagttat gaggcgcttc cccagcacaa    420
actgacctgc ttcaggtaag tgcactttcg tgtgcatgtt tgcttcgtgg aaggaggcac    480
atccccagag g                                                         491 
           
             16 
             1243 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            16
ccatcctaat acgactcact atagggctcg agcggccgcc gggaggtctc tctgtcttca     60
ctaaagaacg tgctcccgaa tgtcaagggg catctggaca gtggccgcag tgtttgagat    120
ttatgcccaa aaggaggcag aagtccttcc ttcccacatc ccttttcaca ctgttctata    180
acctgcttta ttttctaaat tgaggtctaa ctcgtataat ataaaattaa ccatatgagg    240
tatcttgaat aggtgaattc ataggtatag aaagcagatt ggtggttgcc gggggtgggg    300
gctgagggcc ggttgggagg agactggaga gtgactgcta cttgatggga atgaggcttt    360
attaacattt gagtgacaga aatgttctgc agctgaatag agctagtggc tgcactgcat    420
agtagaaggt gttctagaaa ccggtatttc ccgcactgta agtctgactg atcttttggt    480
gttgctgttg cagacacaca tacacttgat gcttaggtgg gagaataagg tagaaactct    540
gggtgataga acgctgtctt aatccagtgt tcccgcaacc aaaaaatgag tgtcggggcc    600
aggcatggtg gttcagcctg taatcccagc actttgggag gctgaggtgg gtagatcact    660
ggagataaag agtttgagac cagcctgcta cacatagtga aaccccgtcc ctactaaaaa    720
tacaacaatt agccgggcat ggtggttcag gcctgtaatc ccagctactc gggaggctga    780
ggcaggagaa ttacttgaac ccgggaggtg gaggctgcag tgagccaaga ttatgccatc    840
gcgctccagc ctgagggata gagcaagact ctgtctcaaa aacaaacaaa aaaagagtgt    900
cagacttgta cattctctca tttcctcgtg cctgatatga agtctgcacg aagacccctt    960
cacggcttag ctggtaagca tgtgctttgt ttcctgtcta gtgtgtactg taagcacggt   1020
cacctgtgtc ccatcgacac cggcctcatc gagaagaata tcgaactctt cttttctggt   1080
tcagcaaaac caatctatga tgatgacccg tctcttgaag gtaaggaata gtccgggatt   1140
atgtttgggg cacactttaa aaacagccag gcaggttggc tcacatctgt aatcctagca   1200
ctttgggggc tgaggccaga ggatcacttg agcccgggag ttt                     1243 
           
             17 
             293 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            17
tttagtccat ttcctttttc tgctctaggt ggtgttaatg gcaaaaatct tggccccata     60
aatgaatggt ggatcactgg ctttgatgga ggtgaaaagg ccctcatcgg cttcagcacc    120
tgtaagtgtg tggcccatca taggctggcc ggggtctgaa aggggccttc atgttctcct    180
tcctgggggc tgacggggct ctggtgggaa ttctcagcag gcttgcagaa ggccatgtga    240
ctgggaacct tagcaggttc agttggggta gatctcttgt gttagttagt agg           293 
           
             18 
             1094 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            18
cgctctctgg ctggctcaga caggcttctt cagaacaagc cagctatgat gtgttgtgcc     60
ctatgtttct gacatttggg tacgggatga cttttagact gttgggtgag tttggtagac    120
tcctccatgc cctgtggcca ctgtaggcgc catcagattc cagccccttt tccacacctc    180
ctctgttcgc cccagcattt gccgaataca ttctgatgga tcccagtccc gagtatgcgc    240
ccatatttgg gctgatgcag gagaagatct acatcagcaa gattgtggtg gagttcctgc    300
agagcaattc cgactcgacc tatgaggacc tgatcaacaa gatcgaggta agagatcgag    360
ggtcctcagc atccgggatt cccactggaa acttgccttc agaaccagca gacactgttc    420
ttcagttgga tttaggccag tttggcttaa gcatgagaga aacctgttct ctttcaagac    480
cacggttcct ccttctggcc tcaacttgaa ccgcttcaca gaggactccc tcctgcgaca    540
cgcgcagttt gtggtggagc aggtggagag ttatgacgag gccggggaca gtgatgagca    600
gcccatcttc ctgacgccct gcatgcggga cctgatcaag ctggctgggg tcacgctggg    660
acagaggtaa ggatgcggct gggaccagag tgaagactgg agaccgggga gggtagagca    720
tggcccacat cctctgtccc agtcctctga gatgctggaa cctctcccgt aggcgagccc    780
aggcgaggcg gcagaccatc aggcattcta ccagggagaa ggacagggga cccacgaaag    840
ccaccaccac caagctggtc taccagatct tcgatacttt cttcgcagag caaattgaaa    900
aggatgacag agaagacaag gagaacgcct ttaagcgccg gcgatgtggc gtctgtgagg    960
taacctcacc tgtgggtgct cccgctcccc taaggtggcc cagcctctgg cctgatctga   1020
ggactgctcc atctttctct gtggcttgag actctggctg ctcaaatgtg accctgagac   1080
agaaattgtt gtgg                                                     1094 
           
             19 
             242 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            19
ctgtgcccag cctgtttgcc tttttatgcc ttttttaggt gtgtcagcag cctgagtgtg     60
ggaaatgtaa agcctgcaag gacatggtta aatttggtgg cagtggacgg agcaagcagg    120
cttgccaaga gcggaggtag gtcaggccga gtcttcctcc tgtggcagag gacttgccag    180
ctggtggcag atgcactgtg gagaagggcc gtcatgtgtg ggacagcacc aggattcctt    240
cg                                                                   242 
           
             20 
             83 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            20
agacctgtcc ctgttatgaa gaaaacagcc ccggttggtc ttacttagaa aaggggcctt     60
aggtataacc agtgacattg cag                                             83 
           
             21 
             185 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            21
gtgtcccaat atggccatga aggaggcaga tgacgatgag gaagtcgatg ataacatccc     60
agagatgccg tcacccaaaa aaatgcacca ggggaagaag aagaaacaga acaagaatcg    120
catctcttgg gtcggagaag ccgtcaaggt aacccttgga gtccccttgg ttcagtcctc    180
actgc                                                                185 
           
             22 
             61 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            22
aagtcaaggc cagcaaagac cctcagaatg atcctccatg aacttatgct ctcattttca     60
g                                                                     61 
           
             23 
             180 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            23
actgatggga agaagagtta ctataagaag gtgtgcattg atgcggaaac cctggaagtg     60
ggggactgtg tctctgttat tccagatgat tcctcaaaac cgctgtatct agcaaggttt    120
gcatctttct ttttgcttga cttctgcatg cactttctca tcaagtagga gatgccctgt    180 
           
             24 
             258 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            24
ctccccatgc ccgtcttcta ttccagggtc acggcgctgt gggaggacag cagcaacggg     60
cagatgtttc acgcccactg gttctgcgct gggacagaca cagtcctcgg ggccacgtcg    120
gaccctctgg agctgttctt ggtggatgaa tgtgaggaca tgcagctttc atatatccac    180
agcaaagtga aagtcatcta caaagccccc tccgaaaact gggccatgga ggtgagtgcc    240
tggtgtcctc gtgagccc                                                  258 
           
             25 
             241 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            25
gacccaaccg acgatatctt tgagtctccc aagggaggca tggatcccga gtccctgctg     60
gagggggacg acgggaagac ctacttctac cagctgtggt atgatcaaga ctacgcgaga    120
ttcgagtccc ctccaaaaac ccagccaaca gaggacaaca agttcaagtg agcactgggg    180
ctggactcgg ggtcagcagg cactttcagc ccacatcact cccttttccc gtgtgcttcc    240
g                                                                    241 
           
             26 
             282 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            26
aagctggcag tagctgctgc ggccactgcc ggccacctca gggccttatg tttctgtccc     60
tttgtttcct tcagattctg tgtgagctgt gcccgtctgg ctgagatgag gcaaaaagaa    120
atccccaggg tcctggagca gctcgaggac ctggatagcc gggtcctcta ctactcagcc    180
accaagaacg gcatcctgta ccgagttggt gatggtgtgt acctgccccc tgaggccttc    240
acgttcaagt aagtgccccc tcggagcagc cggggccagg gg                       282 
           
             27 
             433 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            27
aaatcatttc ttagggtaca cacctacctt aattcatcag gtgcttgact ttaaatggtt     60
attttcactg gtcagtcatg cctgactgac cactgcaagg tggaaggttc attgatgtca    120
agtgggtgct tctctgcagc atcaagctgt ccagtcccgt gaaacgccca cggaaggagc    180
ccgtggatga ggacctgtac ccagagcact accggaaata ctccgactac atcaaaggca    240
gcaacctgga tgcccctgag ccctaccgaa ttggccggat caaagagatc ttctgtccca    300
agaagagcaa cggcaggccc aatgagactg acatcaaaat ccgggtcaac aagttctaca    360
ggtcagcaga ggcctctgtt cttcctcgag gccacagact cttctagaag gctctgctga    420
aacaaggttg tgg                                                       433 
           
             28 
             394 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            28
aaaaggagag ctcctaacga ggcctactcc cgctcgcagg cctgagaaca cccacaagtc     60
cactccagcg agctaccacg cagacatcaa cctgctctac tggagcgacg aggaggccgt    120
ggtggacttc aaggctgtgc agggccgctg caccgtggag tatggggagg acctgcccga    180
gtgcgtccag gtgtactcca tgggcggccc caaccgcttc tacttcctcg aggtggtgcc    240
cctgcttgct agagggaagg cttcggggtc aaagttggcc agaaggagtc tgatgtcggg    300
ttatacacaa ggcggcttgg ctgcagggtt tcagcttttg taagaagtgg gtggttggct    360
gacgtgaagc tgttctgcag gagctttacg gggg                                394 
           
             29 
             671 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            29
gtcaactact ctattggtgg ctaattggtc atggccccac tgaggagaat taagtgacta     60
tcaattgcct tcttactagt ctgcgttaga gaggggacag tggcgtttct ctcccaaacg    120
attgcagttc tctccttttc aggcctataa tgcaaagagc aaaagctttg aagatcctcc    180
caaccatgcc cgtagccctg gaaacaaagg gaagggcaag ggaaaaggta cgtcattgta    240
tgagtttctt ttcaagttat tcttctgtaa cttggaggct gcctgtgaat ccctcagtgt    300
aaaaccacct ctggtgttac tgactctggg acagcgaggc cgcctgagtt aacaaggcgc    360
ttgagagcaa ggtggacttg gactctgagg atcgggttta gcctctggcc tctctccccc    420
agggaagggc aagcccaagt cccaagcctg tgagccgagc gagccagaga tagagatcaa    480
gctgcccaag ctgcggaccc tggatgtgtt ttctggctgc ggggggttgt cggagggatt    540
ccaccaagca ggtgagcgcc cgtaggctcc atctctgaat acctggtgag cccagaccgg    600
gcaggtgcta cctgaaacga cttccaaccc ggtcaccttc tgatctaaga atctcttcga    660
ggccaggcac g                                                         671 
           
             30 
             452 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            30
actgcacgcc agcctgggtg acagagcgag actccatctc aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaatctt     60
ctggagagtt gaaagcatgg cttcgtgctt gatctgccag gcatctctga cacgctgtgg    120
gccatcgaga tgtgggaccc tgcggcccag gcgttccggc tgaacaaccc cggctccaca    180
gtgttcacag aggactgcaa catcctgctg aagctggtca tggctgggga gaccaccaac    240
tcccgcggcc agcggctgcc ccagaaggga gacgtggaga tgctgtgcgg cgggccgccc    300
tgccagggct tcagcggcat gaaccgcttc aattcgcgca cctactccaa gttcaaaaac    360
tctctggtgg tttccttcct caggtaaacg ggtagaagcc ccccagtgtt gccagacggc    420
ccggggctgt gcgcatgtca gcagtgtcat tt                                  452 
           
             31 
             434 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            31
gaagctcaca gctcagctct caccagggag agactttgat aacattcgtg aggggcttcc     60
ggcacagtgg gcgtttcttc cctctgtctg tggaggtgac tcctgcagtc tctcctgccc    120
cctacagcag ctactgcgac tactaccggc cccggttctt cctcctggag aatgtcagga    180
actttgtctc cttcaagcgc tccatggtcc tgaagctcac cctccgctgc ctggtccgca    240
tgggctatca gtgcaccttc ggcgtgctgc aggtgggccc tggggctggg gcgggcagac    300
agatgaggcc agcacgtgac ccggccagca gccagccatc ccttactgaa ggcagggttc    360
aatggcatag gcctgccatc caggcagcag aggctggcat ggtgctctgt ccactggcgg    420
atgaggggag atcg                                                      434 
           
             32 
             317 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            32
cgactcagct gctgaccctg ggcctgggtc tggccagtcc agttgggagt gtcccactga     60
cggtggggtt gtccgtcctt ctcccccaca ggccggtcag tacggcgtgg cccagactag    120
gaggcgggcc atcatcctgg ccgcggcccc tggagagaag ctccctctgt tcccggagcc    180
actgcacgtg tttgctcccc gggcctgcca gctgagcgtg gtggtggatg acaagaagtt    240
tgtgagcaac ataaccaggt aggtggcccc cgtcgctcct ccacacactg ccgacgaggc    300
ctcagtagct catgggg                                                   317 
           
             33 
             489 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            33
catagcccca tccccccttc cagatggcat ccagcacact gccacccatg tgacctcggg     60
cagtgctgtg atctcgggag aaggccatct gagcaggcag ggggtggcac ctgtgatgag    120
gggacagctg ctgcgtgcat ctccagaggt gttgacctcc tcctctgttg caggttgagc    180
tcgggtcctt tccggaccat cacggtgcga gacacgatgt ccgacctgcc ggaggtgcgg    240
aatggagcct cggcactgga gatctcctac aacggggagc ctcagtcctg gttccagagg    300
cagctccggg gcgcacagta ccagcccatc ctcagggacc acatctgtaa ggtaatggca    360
ccctgacaga gcggctcctc ctcgaggccc agcccagcag cctcgtggga acagtcagcc    420
tgcccaagac tcaggggaga catggaatct gatcccaggc tcctcctccg agtctcagcc    480
tttgtgtga                                                            489 
           
             34 
             285 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            34
atggacacgt ccccccacac tctttcagga catgagtgca ttggtggctg cccgcatgcg     60
gcacatcccc ttggccccag ggtcagactg gcgcgatctg cccaacatcg aggtgcggct    120
ctcagacggc accatggcca ggaagctgcg gtatacccac catgacagga agaacggccg    180
cagcagctct ggggccctcc gtggggtctg ctcctgcgtg gaaggtgggt cctgtaagtt    240
gtggttcccg gtggctgagg ggaaggaagg cagacctggg ccttt                    285 
           
             35 
             382 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            35
gacagagtgc catctctgcc tcccaaagct ctaagagcca tgtcccaagc ctatacccca     60
tcccacaact gcagcctcat cactgtcctg tcttccagcc ggcaaagcct gcgaccccgc    120
agccaggcag ttcaacaccc tcatcccctg gtgcctgccc cacaccggga accggcacaa    180
ccactgggct ggcctctatg gaaggctcga gtgggacggc ttcttcagca caaccgtcac    240
caaccccgag cccatgggca agcaggtagg tggggagggg gcatccgagg gcctgggtca    300
ggctgtactt ggcggcctaa ctaggtggaa gtgtgggttt agccaagtgg gggacagcac    360
cccaggatcc cccaggcacc tg                                             382 
           
             36 
             353 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            36
agactgctct gcctcctgcc cctccacgtc cacggacaag ctcatagcca agccatggcc     60
gtatgctgtc acagtgccat ttccctccct gtccccgacg gtgacccggc ctgggtgcta    120
ctgccctcgc ccaccgcgcc tctttccccc agggccgcgt gctccaccca gagcagcacc    180
gtgtggtgag cgtgcgggag tgtgcccgct cccagggctt ccctgacacc taccggctct    240
tcggcaacat cctggacaag caccggcagg tcagtggggc ggcgcgctgg gtctggacag    300
gaaggaggct tctgtgcctg tcaccaggtg gggctggggc agcgcagtca ctt           353 
           
             37 
             254 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            37
caatgcccag gttgtcctcc atctgagcag gtgctggagt acacctcccc cggccttggg     60
cctggtgtcc acatcaggca ttgcccttct cccctcctgc aggtgggcaa tgccgtgcca    120
ccgcccctgg ccaaagccat tggcttggag atcaagcttt gtatgttggc caaagcccga    180
gagagtgccg tatggtgggg tgggccaggc ttcctctggg gcctgactgc cctctggggt    240
acatgtgggg gcag                                                      254 
           
             38 
             565 
             DNA 
             Homo sapiens 
           
            38
actgagcctc tgggtctaga acctctgggg accgtttgag gagtgttcag tctccgtgaa     60
cgttccctta gcactctgcc acttattggg tcagctgtta acatcagtac gttaatgttt    120
cctgatggtc catgtctgtt actcgcctgt caagaggcgt gacaccgggc gtgttcccca    180
gagtgacttt tccttttatt tcccttcagc taaaataaag gaggaggaag ctgctaagga    240
ctagttctgc cctcccgtca cccctgtttc tggcaccagg aatccccaac atgcactgat    300
gttgtgtttt taacatgtca atctgtccgt tcacatgtgt ggtacatggt gtttgtggcc    360
ttggctgaca tgaagctgtt gtgtgaggtt cgcttatcaa ctaatgattt agtgatcaaa    420
ttgtgcagta ctttgtgcat tctggatttt aaaagttttt tattatgcat tatatcaaat    480
ctaccactgt atgagtggaa attaagactt tatgtagttt ttatatgttg taatatttct    540
tcaaataaat ctctcctata aacca                                          565 
           
             39 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            39
agaactgact tacctcggat                                                 20 
           
             40 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence  Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            40
agggtgggtc tgtgggagca                                                 20 
           
             41 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            41
cagtacacac tagacaggaa                                                 20 
           
             42 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            42
cacacttaca ggtgctgaag                                                 20 
           
             43 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            43
gatctcttac ctcgatcttg                                                 20 
           
             44 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            44
cgcatcctta cctctgtccc                                                 20 
           
             45 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            45
ggtgaggtta cctcacagac                                                 20 
           
             46 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            46
ggcctgacct acctccgctc                                                 20 
           
             47 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            47
ccaagggtta ccttgacggc                                                 20 
           
             48 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            48
aaagatgcaa accttgctag                                                 20 
           
             49 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            49
tccatgcctc ccttgggtag                                                 20 
           
             50 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            50
ccagtgctca cttgaacttg                                                 20 
           
             51 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            51
acacagaatc tgaaggaaac                                                 20 
           
             52 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            52
agcttgatgc tgcagagaag                                                 20 
           
             53 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            53
caggggcacc acctcgagga                                                 20 
           
             54 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            54
cttgcccttc cctgggggag                                                 20 
           
             55 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            55
acggccgctc acctgcttgg                                                 20 
           
             56 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            56
tcccggcctg tgggggagaa                                                 20 
           
             57 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            57
gggccaccta cctggttatg                                                 20 
           
             58 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            58
gggtgccatt accttacaga                                                 20 
           
             59 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            59
acaggaccca ccttccacgc                                                 20 
           
             60 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            60
gcacgcggcc ctgggggaaa                                                 20 
           
             61 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            61
gccccactga ctgccggtgc                                                 20 
           
             62 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            62
cccgggtggt atgccgtgag                                                 20 
           
             63 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            63
ctgctcttac gcttagcctc                                                 20 
           
             64 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            64
gaaggttcag ctgtttaaag                                                 20 
           
             65 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            65
gtttggcagg gctgtcacac                                                 20 
           
             66 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            66
ctggccctac ctggtctttg                                                 20 
           
             67 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            67
ctagcaactc tgtcaagcaa                                                 20 
           
             68 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            68
tagagcttta ctttttcatc                                                 20 
           
             69 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            69
gtttgggtgt tctgtcacag                                                 20 
           
             70 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            70
gtttggcagc tctgcagggt                                                 20 
           
             71 
             27 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide; Combined DNA/RNA 
             
           
            71
ctgaacggat cgtttcgatc ugttcag                                         27 
           
             72 
             19 
             PRT 
             Homo sapiens 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            72
Gly Gln Arg Leu Pro Gln Lys Gly Asp Val Glu Met Leu Lys Gly Gly
  1               5                  10                  15
Pro Pro Cys 
           
             73 
             19 
             PRT 
             Homo sapiens 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            73
Gly Gly Pro Pro Cys Gln Gly Phe Ser Gly Met Asn Arg Phe Asn Ser
  1               5                  10                  15
Arg Thr Tyr 
           
             74 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            74
aaacgggaac caagcaagaa                                                 20 
           
             75 
             19 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            75
tgagatgtga tggtggttt                                                  19 
           
             76 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            76
ctgaaccttc acctagcccc                                                 20 
           
             77 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            77
gatggactca tccgatttgg                                                 20 
           
             78 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            78
ccctgccaaa cggaaacctc                                                 20 
           
             79 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            79
gttctctgga tgtaactcta                                                 20 
           
             80 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            80
agacgtagag ttacatccag                                                 20 
           
             81 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            81
gctctttcag gttcttctgc                                                 20 
           
             82 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            82
aagaaaagag actccgaagt                                                 20 
           
             83 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            83
tttctcgtct ccatcttcgt                                                 20 
           
             84 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            84
gtcagccctt aggagctgtt                                                 20 
           
             85 
             19 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            85
ggaaacagct atgaccatg                                                  19 
           
             86 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            86
gatgagaaga agcacagaag                                                 20 
           
             87 
             24 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            87
tcatcctcgt ctttttcatc agaa                                            24 
           
             88 
             24 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            88
ttctgatgaa aaagacgagg atga                                            24 
           
             89 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            89
cattaccatc tgctttggat                                                 20 
           
             90 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            90
aggagaagag acgcaaaacg                                                 20 
           
             91 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            91
agttcatgac tgttttggcg                                                 20 
           
             92 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            92
gtactgtaag cacggtcacc                                                 20 
           
             93 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            93
aggtgctgaa gccgatgagg                                                 20 
           
             94 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            94
tggatcactg gctttgatgg                                                 20 
           
             95 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            95
ctcgatcttg ttgatcaggt                                                 20 
           
             96 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            96
aggcgagccc aggcgaggcg                                                 20 
           
             97 
             21 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            97
cgctcttggc aagcctgctt g                                               21 
           
             98 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            98
gtgtcagcag cctgagtgtg                                                 20 
           
             99 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            99
ctccgaccca agagatgcga                                                 20 
           
             100 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            100
gtcccaatat ggccatgaag                                                 20 
           
             101 
             22 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            101
gctagataca gcggttttga gg                                              22 
           
             102 
             25 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            102
cgtcaagact gatgggaaga agagt                                           25 
           
             103 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            103
ctccatggcc cagttttcgg                                                 20 
           
             104 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            104
gtcacggcgc tgtgggagga                                                 20 
           
             105 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            105
ttgaacttgt tgtcctctgt                                                 20 
           
             106 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            106
gacctacttc taccagctgt                                                 20 
           
             107 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            107
ttgaacgtga aggcctcagg                                                 20 
           
             108 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            108
ctctactact cagccaccaa                                                 20 
           
             109 
             19 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            109
tagaacttgt tgacccgga                                                  19 
           
             110 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            110
tgagactgac atcaaaatcc                                                 20 
           
             111 
             19 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            111
cgaggaagta gaagcggtg                                                  19 
           
             112 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            112
cgagtgcgtc caggtgtact                                                 20 
           
             113 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            113
cttccctttg tttccagggc                                                 20 
           
             114 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            114
gaagggcaag cccaagtccc                                                 20 
           
             115 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            115
agccatgacc agcttcagca                                                 20 
           
             116 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            116
tgctgaagct ggtcatggct                                                 20 
           
             117 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            117
cctgcagcac gccgaaggtg                                                 20 
           
             118 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            118
tccttcaagc gctccatggt                                                 20 
           
             119 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            119
tagtctgggc cacgccgtac                                                 20 
           
             120 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            120
ccggtcagta cggcgtggcc                                                 20 
           
             121 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            121
agatctccag tgccgaggct                                                 20 
           
             122 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            122
tgagctcggg tcctttccgg                                                 20 
           
             123 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            123
tccacgcagg agcagacccc                                                 20 
           
             124 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            124
tcagacggca ccatggccag                                                 20 
           
             125 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            125
cttgcccatg ggctcggggt                                                 20 
           
             126 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            126
ctctatggaa ggctcgagtg                                                 20 
           
             127 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            127
cggtgcttgt ccaggatgtt                                                 20 
           
             128 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            128
ctgacaccta ccggctcttc                                                 20 
           
             129 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            129
ggcactctct cgggctttgg                                                 20 
           
             130 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            130
ggagatcaag ctttgtatgt                                                 20 
           
             131 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            131
gtccttagca gcttcctcct                                                 20 
           
             132 
             24 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            132
cgcctgcgga catcgtcggg cagc                                            24 
           
             133 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            133
aattaaccct cactaaaggg                                                 20 
           
             134 
             22 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            134
gtaatacgac tcactatagg gc                                              22 
           
             135 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            135
gctctttcag gttcttctgc                                                 20 
           
             136 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            136
aagaaaagag actccgaagt                                                 20 
           
             137 
             21 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            137
tgagccacag atgctgacaa a                                               21 
           
             138 
             20 
             DNA 
             Artificial Sequence 
             
               Description of Artificial Sequence Synthetic
      Oligonucleotide 
             
           
            138
gtactgtaag cacggtcacc                                                 20