Localization of the gene encoding R[kappa]B (NFRKB), a tissue-specific DNA binding protein, to chromosome 11q24-q25

Abstract

Although NF (nuclear factor)-[kappa]B binds in vitro to several of the [kappa]B regulatory elements found in cellular and viral genes, another DNA binding protein, R[kappa]B, also binds to a related variant of the [kappa]B site that regulates interleukin-2 receptor [alpha]-chain gene expression, a critical event in T cell activation. Southern blot analysis of a human-mouse somatic cell hybrid panel and in situ hybridization using a fluorescent genomic R[kappa]B probe have allowed assignment of the R[kappa]B gene (NFRKB) to 11q24-q25. The NFRKB locus is in close proximity to the chromosomal breakpoint implicated in Ewing sarcoma, but it does not appear to span this region. Nonetheless, NFRKB may be particularly useful as the most telomeric marker thus far assigned to 11q.