Te. Broad et al., 13 LOCI PHYSICALLY ASSIGNED TO SHEEP CHROMOSOME-2 BY CELL HYBRID ANALYSIS AND IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION, Mammalian genome, 6(12), 1995, pp. 862-866
Sheep x hamster cell hybrids containing sheep metacentric Chromosome (
Chr) 2 were produced by fusing blood leukocytes from normal sheep with
hamster auxotrophic Ade F-minus mutants. Cell clones that were isocit
rate dehydrogenase I (IDH1) positive were cytogenetically characterize
d, confirming that they contained sheep Chr 2. The following loci were
newly assigned by Southern hybridization to sheep Chr 2: lipoprotein
lipase (LPL), glycoprotein-4-beta galactosyltransferase 2 (GGT82), neu
rofilament light polypeptide (68 kDa; NEFL), surfactant-associated pro
tein 2 (SFTP2), lymphocyte-specific protein tyrosine kinase (LCK), and
nebulin (NEB). These new assignments and the in situ localization of
grelsolin (GSN) to sheep Chr 2pter-p24 are consistent with the predict
ed homology of cattle Chr 8 (U18) with sheep Chr 2p, and of cattle Chr
2 (U17) with sheep 2q. In addition, the assignment by cell hybrid ana
lysis of loci previously mapped to Chr 2 in sheep, viz., cholinergic r
eceptor, nicotinic, delta polypeptide (CHRND), collagen type III alpha
1 (COL3AI), fibronectin 1 (FN1), isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH1), and
villin 1 (VIL1), confirmed the localization of sheep syntenic group U
11 to this chromosome. By nutritional selection and complementation of
the hamster auxotrophic Ade F mutation, the multifunctional enzyme lo
cus phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formy/transferase (AICAR t
ransformylase)/IMP cyclohydrolase (inosinicase) (provisionally given t
he symbol PRACFT) has also been newly assigned to sheep Chr 2. This re
port significantly extends the number of loci physically mapped to she
ep Chr 2 and confirms its close homology with cattle Chrs 2 and 8.