Figure 1
From: Transcription variants of SLA-7, a swine non classical MHC class I gene
Schematic representation of the SLA-7 transcripts. Exons are numbered E1 to E8 and the three prime non coding region is indicated as 3UTR. Sizes of exons and 3UTR are given in nucleotides within the boxes. The number of aminoacids for each exon is indicated above the exon number. Exons represented by a dark blue box (E1) correspond to the leader sequences. Exons represented by orange boxes (E2 to E4) stand for the alpha1, 2 and 3 domains of the molecules. Exons represented in bright blue (E5) correspond to the transmembrane domain. Exons represented by green boxes encode the cytoplasmic tail of the molecule. The 3UTR is represented by a grey box. Positions of the primers used for RT-PCRs are indicated by arrows on top of the figure on E1 (SLA-7-e1-F), E4 (SLA-7-e4-F) and 3UTR (SLA-7-3UTR-R). The donor and acceptor splice sequences are positioned by arrows on E4 and 3UTR boxes.