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We have detected a transcriptional enhancer sequence downstream from the adult beta-globin (beta A-globin) genes of chicken and duck. DNA segments from the beta-globin coding and flanking sequences were cloned into expression vectors containing the SV40 promoter linked to either the T antigen gene or the cat gene. The expression of these genes was measured in a chicken erythroid cell line transfected with the recombinant plasmids. We found that segments located about 400 bp downstream from the poly(A) site of both the chicken and duck beta A-globin genes (and about 1.5 kb upstream from the embryonic epsilon-globin gene) stimulate transcription of the test genes about five-fold. In chicken essentially the same segment was also found by others to act as an erythroid cell-specific enhancer [Hesse et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83 (1986) 4312-4316; Choi and Engel, Nature 323 (1986) 731-734]. The sequence containing this enhancer is conserved in evolution. A high degree of homology, reaching 84% in a segment 180 bp in length, was found between chicken and duck despite an evolutionary divergence of 70 myr.
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