Table 1.

Identified F. rubripes Genes on a Stretch of 148 kb of Genomic DNA

A: Genes with vertebrate homologs
Fugu and human name Length of Fugu protein (amino acids) Percent identity Accession no. Assigned to chromosome
ACVR1B 50683 human P36896 12q13
88 zebrafish X94119
ALR 482545 human235828512q13
wnt1 37076 human P04628 12q13
92 zebrafish P24257
wnt10b 39060 human193278912q13
60 mouse P48614
ARF3 181100 human P16587 12q13
erbB3 132851 human P21860 12q13
PAS1 39279 human121652612q13
79 mouse P50580
L41 25100 human P28751 N.A.
LRP1 158172 human Q07954 12q13
 (partial)74 chicken P98157
B: New genes of a known gene family
Fugu name Length of Fugu protein (amino acids) Closest homolog Accession no. Percent identity (amino acids)
Ikaros-like 417 Ikaros/Lyf-1 (human)128937185 (zinc finger domains)
50 (full protein)
fugu hedgehog  (fhh)442 shh (human)66315748
shh (mouse) A49425 52
ihh (mouse)189009752
C. New vertebrate genes
Fugu name Length of Fugu protein (amino acids) No. of exons Significant hits with dbEST entries (acc. no.) Exons E-value
R05D3.2-like 49715 AA307511 3–88e-58
AA037301 12–151e-39
AA304712 11–141e-27
AA307337 8–134e-23
138e3.2 2554HUMHBC491223e-15
AA905621 42e-06
AA170127 3–44e-11
178o23.1 96623 T27154 3–86e-54
H82462 4–96e-35
AA312185 15–174e-29
AA378749 9–116e-18
AA773555 21–235e-16
H10578 13–147e-13
R88176 14e-09
diaphanous-like 103724 AA309980 17–194e-48
AA224424 19–223e-46
T07474 9–124e-39
AA459557 5–7, 9–104e-39
U69179 17–239e-32
Z41620 15–169e-28
AA421752 4–51e-14
M78344 23–241e-09

[i] Homology searches were made with the putative amino acid sequences of the identified Fugu genes using the GAP-BLAST program (Altschul et al. 1997). (A) Fugu genes with highly homologous human counterparts. Genomic location data for human and mouse were obtained from NCBI; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. (N.A.) Data not available. (B) New Fugu genes belonging to a known vertebrate gene family. (C) Fugu genes with no or only weak homology to any characterized vertebrate gene. Strong homologies to human entries of the dbEST library can be found for all four Fugu genes.