Patent Application: US-7845998-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to recombinant dna which encodes the agei restriction endonuclease as well as agei methyltransferase , and production of agei restriction endonuclease from e . coli cells containing the recombinant dna .

Description:
the method described herein by which the agei methylase gene and the agei restriction endonuclease genes are preferably cloned and expressed in e . coli utilizes the following steps : agrobacterium gelatinovorum ( atcc 25655 ) genomic dna was digested with sau3ai to achieve the desired partial digestion . the sau3ai partially digested genomic dna in the range of 0 . 5 - 20 kb was ligated into bamhi cut and cip treated vector page - 2 ; puc19 derivative with two agei sites at 16 ° c . overnight . transformation was carried out using rr1 competent cells and ligated dna . the transformants were pooled and amplified . plasmid dna was prepared from the overnight cell cultures . 2 . challenge the sau3ai partial library dna with agei digestion and cloning of agei methylase gene ( ageim ). the sau3ai partial library dna was digested with agei at 37 ° c . overnight . the digested dna was used to re - transform rr1 competent cells . plasmid dna was isolated from cell culture of all transformants . individual plasmid dna was digested with agei to detect any resistance to digestion . two plasmids isolated , # 1 and # 26 displayed resistance to agei digestion . the degree of resistance to agei digestion was complete , suggesting that the clones contained the agei methylase gene and expressed in e . coli . two m + clones , # 1 and # 26 were subjected to dna sequencing by primer walking . the entire insert of # 26 was sequenced and found to overlap # 1 completely . # 26 insert has 5356 bp dna with partial and complete open reading frames , however one large orf was compared to the other genes in genbank using blastx , and it shows homology to known c 5 cytosine methylases . this gene was assigned as ageim gene . there are 3576 bp of dna upstream of the ageim gene and 491 bp of dna downstream of the ageim gene . some of the sequences may be derived by random ligation of sau3ai fragments during library construction . ( in later experiments , it was found that the ageir gene is located downstream of the ageim gene , see fig1 ). the entire agei methylase gene ( 1290 bp ) was amplified from genomic dna using vent ® dna polymerase and two primers by pcr . the pcr product ( ageim gene ) was digested with bamhi , gel - purified and cloned into pacyc184 . four plasmid isolates displayed full resistance to agei digestion , indicating modification of agei sites in vivo via the insertion and expression of the agei methylase gene . there are 3576 bp of dna upstream of the ageim gene in the original m + clone , but this clone does not produce agei endonuclease activity . it was reasoned that part of or all of the 3576 bp dna were derived from random ligation . inverse pcr was used to amplify and clone the continuous dna upstream of ageim gene . after two rounds of inverse pcr , one open reading frame ( orf1 ) of 681 bp was found ( fig2 ). orf1 was amplified by pcr and cloned into a t7 expression vector paii17 ( pet11 derived ) and transformed into agei methylase premodified host . e . coli cells were induced with iptg and cell extract was assayed for agei activity . no agei activity was detected . since restriction and modification genes are typically located in close proximity to each other , it was concluded that the ageir gene is located downstream . inverse pcr was used to amplify dna downstream of ageim gene . after two rounds of inverse pcr , one open reading frame ( orf2 ) of 852 bp was found . orf2 is in opposite orientation as the ageim gene ( see fig1 for the agei r - m gene organization ). orf2 was amplified by pcr and cloned into a t7 expression vector paii17 and transformed into agei methylase premodified cells . e . coli cells were induced with iptg for three hours and cell extracts were prepared and assayed for agei activity . eight cell extracts were assayed and all of them displayed agei activity . thus , orf2 was assigned as ageir gene ( fig4 ). the present invention is further illustrated by the following example . this example is provided to aid in the understanding of the invention and is not construed as a limitation thereof . the references cited above and below are incorporated herein by reference . genomic dna was prepared from agrobacterium gelatinovorum ( atcc 25655 ) ( this strain is in the new england biolabs &# 39 ; collection , neb # 552 , beverly , mass . ); yamada et al , agric . biol . chem . 53 : 1747 - 1749 ( 1989 ). four μg of agrobacterium gelatinovorum genomic dna was digested with 0 . 5 , 0 . 25 and 0 . 125 , 0 . 0625 , 0 . 03 , 0 . 015 , 0 . 0078 , 0 . 0039 units of sau3ai at 37 ° c . for 15 min . all eight tubes of digestion were combined as partial digestion pool . the sau3ai partially digested genomic dna was in the range of 0 . 5 - 20 kb . the sau3ai partially digested genomic dna was ligated into bamhi cut and cip treated vector page - 2 ; puc19 derivative with two agei sites ( skoglund et al , gene , 88 : 1 - 5 ( 1990 )) at 16 ° c . overnight . page - 2 contains an agei linker ; ( 5 &# 39 ; d ( pgaccggtc ) 3 &# 39 ; 8 mer ), at two different sites in puc19 ( yanisch - perron et al gene , 33 : 103 - 119 ( 1985 )); one at the sspi site and another at a dral site between the β - lactamase gene and ori of puc19 . after the ligation reaction transformation was carried out by mixing rr1 ( tona - , dnasei - ) competent cells and the ligated dna by the standard procedure . transformants were plated on lb agar plus amp ( 100 μg / ml ). about 10 , 000 colonies were obtained in transformation . to increase the number of colonies , another 5 × transformation was carried out using rr1 ( tona - , dnasei - ) cells and the ligated dna . about 50 , 000 transformants were obtained . all the transformants were pooled and inoculated into 0 . 5 liter of lb broth plus amp and incubated at 37 ° c . overnight . plasmid dna was prepared from the overnight cells by cscl gradient . 2 . challenge the sau3ai partial library dna with agei digestion and cloning of agei methylase gene ( ageim ) two μg of the sau3ai partial library dna was digested with 12 units of agei at 37 ° c . overnight . the digested dna was used to re - transform rr1 ( tona - , dnasei - ) competent cells . fourty - eight survivors were obtained . mini - preparation of plasmid dna was isolated from 10 ml cell culture of 28 transformants . individual plasmid dna was digested with agei to detect any resistance to digestion . two plasmids isolated , # 1 and # 26 displayed resistance to agei digestion . the degree of resistance to agei digestion was complete , suggesting that the cloned agei methylase gene was complete and expressed in e . coli ( sequencing the insert verified that the entire agei methylase gene was cloned ). restriction digestion of # 1 and # 26 plasmid dna with aatii , and sau3ai indicated overlapping dna . # 1 contained a 1 . 8 kb partial sau3ai fragment that was completely overlapped by # 26 which contained a partial sau3ai insert of approximately 5 . 4 kb of dna . # 1 and # 26 plasmid dna were sequenced by primer walking using the dideoxy termination method using amplitaq dna polymerase dye deoxy terminator sequencing kit and abi373a automated dna sequencer . primers were synthesized to sequence the non - overlapping region or to confirm the complementary strand of the known sequence . the entire insert of # 26 was sequenced and found to contain 5356 bp of partial sau3ai fragments that encode several partial and complete open reading frames . when the large orf was compared to the known gene in genbank using blastx , one of shows homology to known c 5 cytosine methylases . one orf upstream of ageim gene shows weak homology to a known transposase ; tpase d78259 . the downstream partial orf showed no homology to any gene in genbank . the agei methylase gene nt 3577 - 4866 is encoded on 1290 bp of dna and starts at the codon atg ( met ) and stops at tag codon . pcr was performed to amplify the ageim gene . bamhi sites were engineered into the two primers 179 - 36 and 179 - 37 at the 5 &# 39 ; ends . ten pcr reactions were performed using 0 . 2 μg genomic dna , 10 μl 10 × thermopol buffer , 0 . 27 mm concentration of dntp , 79 μl h 2 o , 0 . 12 μg primer 179 - 36 , 0 . 12 μg primer 179 - 37 , 2 units of vent ® dna polymerase . the resulting dna was purified on low melting agarose gel and the dna bands were cut out and extracted with equal amounts of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 and precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in 80 μl of te buffer . the pcr dna ( approximately 4 μg ) was then digested with 200 units of bamhi , 10 μl 10 × bahi buffer and incubated at 37 ° c . for 3 hours . the bamhi digested dna was gel - purified and treated with β - agarase and extracted with equal amounts of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 and precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in 50 μl of te buffer . the purified dna was inserted into pacyc184 . fourteen mini - preparation of plasmid dna was made and 11 of them contained the methylase gene insert . digestion of six plasmids with agei indicated that four isolates (# 1 , # 3 , # 4 , # 6 ) were resistant to agei digestion . # 1 isolate was used to tranform the t7 expression host er2566 to premodify chromosome dna . in 17 reactions 10 g genomic dna was digested with aatii , apoi , bani , bsahi , eaei , eco47iii , haeii , hincii , hpai , mlui , mspi , nlaiii , pvui , saci , taqi , tsp509i , and xmni . the resulting dna was then extracted by equal volumes of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in te buffer . two μg of the dna was self - ligated with t4 dna ligase then extracted with phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol . a set of inverse pcr primers were synthesized : inverse pcr was carried out using primers 178 - 44 and ( 178 - 45 and the above mentioned dna template . inverse pcr products were found in aatii , hincii , pvui , taqi , tsp509i , and xmni - digested and self - ligated dna . inverse pcr was repeated on these six reactions and the products were gel purified and sequenced directly using primers ( 178 - 44 and 178 - 45 . the aatii fragment provided 449 bp of dna sequence . ten μg genomic dna was digested with aatii , apoi , avai , apali , bsahi , bstui , haeii , pvui , sau3ai , styi , and taqi . the resulting dna was then extracted by equal volumes of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in te buffer . two μg of the dna was self - ligated with t4 dna ligase then extracted with phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol . inverse pcr was carried out using primers 178 - 122 and 178 - 123 and the above mentioned template dna . pcr products were found in bsahi and taqi template . the inverse pcr dna was repeated with three tubes each and the products were gel purified in low melting agarose gel . the dna was sequenced directly using primers 178 - 122 and 178 - 123 . one open reading frame of 681 bp was found . this orf was named orf1 . 6 . expression of orf1 in t7 expression vector a set of pcr primers were synthesized : orfi was amplified by pcr using primers 181 - 184 and 179 - 100 from agei genomic dna under pcr conditions of 95 ° c . 30 seconds , 55 ° c . 1 minute and 72 ° c . 1 minute , and 2 units vent ® dna polymerase for 20 cycles . the pcr product was digested with ndei and bamhi and cloned into t7 expression vector paii17 . the ligated dna was transformed into t7 expression host er2566 pacyc - ageim + !. plasmid dna was isolated from 20 transformants and digested with ndei and bamhi to screen for insert . ten out of 20 contained the insert . seven clones with insert were induced with iptg for 2 hours . cell extacts were prepared and assayed for agei restriction endonuclease activity . no activity was detected in all 7 extracts . it was concluded that orf1 is not the agei endonuclease gene . the agei endonuclease gene must be located downstream of the methylase gene . one set of pcr primers based on the sequence immediately downstream of the agei methylase gene were synthesized : a second set of pcr primers 165 bp downstream of agei methylase gene were synthesized : ten μg genomic dna was digested with avaii , bsrbi , clai , ddei , ecori , hhai , ncii , tsei and nrui . the resulting dna was then extracted by equal volumes of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in te buffer . two μg of the dna was self - ligated with t4 dna ligase then extracted with phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol . inverse pcr was carried out using primers 182 - 161 and 182 - 162 . inverse pcr products were found in hhai and tsei dna . these two pcr reactions were repeated with four tubes each . the pcr dna was gel purified from low melting agarose gel and sequenced directly using primers 182 - 161 and 182 - 162 . the hhai fragment provided 341 bp of new sequence . a set of inverse pcr primers were synthesized : ten μg genomic dna was digested with aatii , alfiii , alui , apali , avai , barbi , bfai , bsaai , bsawi , bsiei , bspei , bsphi , bstui , ddei , hinfi , hpaii , mlui , mspi , styi , taii , tfii , and tsp509i . the resulting dna was then extracted by equal volumes of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in te buffer . two μg of the dna was self - ligated with t4 dna ligase then extracted with phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 , precipitated with cold ethanol . pcr products were found in bsawi and taii digested and self ligated dna . the above pcr reaction was repeated with bsawi and taii . approximately 50 ng of template dna was combined with 68 μl of h 2 o , 10 μl 10 × taq polymerase buffer , 5 . 4 μl of 5 mm dntp ( final concentration 0 . 27 mm ), 0 . 12 μg primer 183 - 88 , 0 . 12 μg primer 183 - 89 , 2 . 5 units taq dna polymerase . the pcr reactions were carried out for thirty cycles of 95 ° c . for 30 seconds , 60 ° c . for 30 seconds and 72 ° c . for 1 minute with a 5 minutes hold after completion of the cycles then sequenced . the bsawi ipcr product was approximately 300 bp and the taii product 170 bp and the two products were purified on low melting agarose gel . ipcr was also repeated on afliii , alui , bfai , bsaai , bsiei , bspei , bsphi , bsrbi , bstui , ddei , hinfi , hpaii , styi , tfii and tsp509i digested and self - ligated dna templates . approximately 50 ng of template dna was combined with 68 μl h 2 ), 10 μl 10 × taq polymerase buffer , 0 . 27 mm concentration dntp , 0 . 12 μg primer 183 - 88 , 0 . 12 μg primer 183 - 89 , 2 . 5 units of taq dna polymerase . the reactions underwent a 95 ° c . preheat , then thirty cycles of 95 ° c . for 30 seconds , 60 ° c . for 30 seconds and 72 ° c . for 1 minute with a 5 minute 72 ° c . hold after the completion of the cycles . the afliii , alui , bspei , hpaii and tsp509i templates generated approximately 300 - 600 bp of pcr products . the experiment was repeated with three tubes each for these five templates and was then gel purified and sequenced . the afliii product was the longest with 578 bp and contained a tga stop codon on the complementary strand 371 bp downstream . pcr and dna sequencing were performed to clear up ambiguous sequence , using primer 182 - 159 with 183 - 89 and primer 182 - 161 with 183 - 89 and two different concentrations of mgcl 2 ( 1 . 5 and 3 . 0 mm ), 1 μg genomic dna , 70 μl h 2 o , 10 μl 10 × assay buffer a , 5 . 4 mm conc . dntp , 0 . 12 μg of each primer , and 2 . 5 units taq dna polymerase . the pcr reactions were carried out for 30 cycles of 94 ° c . for 30 seconds , 55 ° c . for 30 seconds , 72 ° c . for 30 seconds , and a final 2 minutes 72 ° c . hold . resulting dna was subjected to electrophoresis on low melting agarose gel , the dna bands were cut out and digested with β - agarase and precipitated with equal volumes of isopropanol , dried and resuspended in te . the pcr dna was sequenced directly using primers 182 - 159 , 182 - 161 and 183 - 89 . the ageir gene is 852 bp , running in the opposite direction to the ageim gene . two primers were constructed which engineered a bamhi and ndei site into the 5 &# 39 ; ends of the primers . pcr was completed in five reactions using 1 μg genomic dna , 0 . 12 μg primer 184 - 53 ( containing the ndei site ), 0 . 12 μg primer 184 - 54 ( containing the bamhi site ), 70 μl h 2 o , 10 μl 10 × thermopol buffer , 0 . 27 mm conc . dntp , 2 units vent ® dna polymerase , and 0 , 2 , 4 , 6 , and 8 μl of 100 mm mgso 4 for a 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , and 10 mm final concentration of mgso 4 . twenty cycles at 94 ° c . for 30 seconds , 60 ° c . for 30 seconds , 72 ° c . for 1 minute , with a final hold of 72 ° c . for 2 minutes were completed . the 2 mm concentration of mgso 4 gave the best results and the reaction was repeated with ten tubes . the resulting dna was purified from a low melting gel and digested with β - agarase . the dna was then precipitated with equal volumes of isopropanol , dried and resuspended in te . approximately 4 μg of the precipitated dna was then digested with 200 units of ndei , 100 units of bamhi in 22 μl 10 × neb buffer 3 . the dna was extracted with equal volume of phenol - chcl 3 and chcl 3 and precipitated with cold ethanol , dried and resuspended in 50 μl of te buffer . the resulting dna was then ligated in two reactions into 100 ng of vector paii17 , using 0 . 1 μg and 0 . 2 μg of pcr dna ( ageir gene ) respectively , 2 μl 10 × t4 ligation buffer , 800 units t4 dna ligase and incubated at 16 ° c . overnight . all of the recombinant dna from the ligation was then transformed into 150 μl competent er2566 cells by 30 minutes at 4 ° c ., 3 minutes at 37 ° c . and 5 minutes at 25 ° c . after addition of 170 gl of sob broth and incubation at 37 ° c . for 1 hour , the cell / dna mixture was plated on lb agar plate plus 100 μg / ml ampicillin ( ap ) and 33 μg / ml chloramphenacol ( cm ) and incubated at 37 ° c . overnight . the 12 individual ap and cm resistant transformants that grew were picked and inoculated into 2 ml of lb + ap + cm and shaken at 37 ° c . overnight . 1 . 5 ml of cells were centrifuged to make plasmid dna by qiagen mini - preparation purification . 25 μl (˜ 200 ng ) of the resulting purified plasmid dna was digested with 20 units bamhi , 20 units ndei , in 3 μl 10 × neb buffer 3 and incubated at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . eight of twelve showed ageir gene insert . eight clones with insert were cultured in 10 ml lb + ap + cm to late log phase , 50 μl 100 mm iptg was added and incubated at 37 ° c . overnight . iptg induced cells were harvested and resuspended in 1 ml sonification buffer and sonificated 3 × 20 seconds each , then centrifuged 15 minutes at 4 ° c . the cell extract was assayed for restriction endonuclease activity by digesting 1 μg λdna with 1 μl and 5 μl respectively of cell extract in 3 μl 10 × neb buffer 1 and incubated at 25 ° c . for 1 hour . all eight samples showed agei activity . er2566 pacyc - ageim + , paii17 - ageir + ! strain has been deposited with the american type culture collection on apr . 1 , 1998 and received accession no . 209730 __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 23 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 681 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : coding sequence ( b ) location : 1 ... 678 ( d ) other information :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 852 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : coding sequence ( b ) location : 1 ... 849 ( d ) other information :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 45 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : aacggatccggaggtttaaaaatgaagacgatcgatctattttgc45 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 36 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : caaggatcctaactgatcgcaacctttattgtttca36 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 27 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : aagggtgctgaagtacccaaacgccgg27 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 27 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : gcggagaacagccgccacagatgcgac27 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : tcgggaagctgggaccttgcgagc24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 9 : accacctatatcgccaccgcacct24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 10 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 39 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 10 : cttcccgaccatatggggccatcaacgctgaaaaggaga39 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 11 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 36 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 11 : gctggatcctcagcgaggatatttgcagacaccata36 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 12 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 12 : aactcgtcgtcctgaccagagaag24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 13 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 13 : cgactacttagtcgcccaactggc24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 14 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 14 : taattcctcttgtccgagggccgg24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 15 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 15 : attgagggacacggggatttctcg24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 16 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 16 : cccatgtcgggccagcactggatt24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 17 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 17 : actaggttgaccgccttattcaag24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 18 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 18 : cccatgtcgggccagcactggatt24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 19 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 19 : atcaggttgaccgccttattcaag24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 20 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 20 : aactcgtcgtcctgaccagagaag24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 21 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 21 : taattcctcttgtccgagggccgg24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 22 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 39 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 22 : atttgcccccatatgtggtgtaattatgaaggcggggga39 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 23 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 33 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 23 : cgcggatccgaaacgcagtcccaccgttgctag33__________________________________________________________________________