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Full-length cDNAs from chicken bursal lymphocytes to facilitate gene function analysis

Randolph B Caldwell* 1 email, Andrzej M Kierzek* 2,3 email, Hiroshi Arakawa1 email, Yuri Bezzubov1 email, Jolanta Zaim2 email, Petra Fiedler1 email, Stefan Kutter1 email, Artem Blagodatski1 email, Diyana Kostovska1 email, Marek Koter1 email, Jiri Plachy4 email, Piero Carninci5,6 email, Yoshihide Hayashizaki5,6 email and Jean-Marie Buerstedde1 email

1Institute of Molecular Radiobiology, GSF, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany

2Laboratory of Systems Biology Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warszawa, Poland

3School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK

4Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Molecular Genetics, 16637 Praha, Czech Republic

5Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Project, Genomic Sciences Center and Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan

6Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2004, 6:R6doi:10.1186/gb-2004-6-1-r6

Published: 23 December 2004

Subject areas: Genome studies, Model organisms, Immunology, Genetics

Abstract

A large number of cDNA inserts were sequenced from a high-quality library of chicken bursal lymphocyte cDNAs. Comparisons to public gene databases indicate that the cDNA collection represents more than 2,000 new, full-length transcripts. This resource defines the structure and the coding potential of a large fraction of B-cell specific and housekeeping genes whose function can be analyzed by disruption in the chicken DT40 B-cell line.


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