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Nucleic Acids Research, 1981, Vol. 9, No. 21 5553-5568
© 1981

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Interspersed repeated sequences in the African green monkey genome that are homologous to the human Alu family

Giovanna Grimaldi, Cary Queen and Maxine F. Singer

Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20205, USA

Received August 18, 1981. The dominant family of interspersed repetitive DNA sequences in the human genome has been termed the Alu family. We have found that more than 75% of the {lambda} phage in a recombinant library representing an African green monkey genome hybridize with a human Alu sequence under stringent conditions. A group of clones selected from the monkey library with probes other than the Alu sequence were analyzed for the presence and distribution of Alu family sequences. The analyses confirm the abundance of Alu sequences and demonstrate that more than one repeat unit is present in some phages. In the clones studied, the Alu units are separated by an average of 8 kilobase pairs of unrelated sequences. The nucleotide sequence of one monkey Alu sequence is reported and shown to resemble the human Alu sequences closely. Hence, the sequence, dispersion pattern, and copy number of the Alu family members are very similar in the African green monkey and human genomes.

Among the clones investigated were two that contain segments of the satellite DNA termed ct-component joined to non cc-component DNA. The experiments indicate that in the monkey genome Alu sequences can occur close to regions of ct-component DNA.


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