Data characterizing the genomic structure of the T cell receptor (TRB) locus in Camelus dromedarius

Rachele Antonacci; Mariagrazia Bellini; Vito Castelli; Salvatrice Ciccarese; Serafina Massari

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2017.08.002

Data characterizing the genomic structure of the T cell receptor (TRB) locus in Camelus dromedarius

Data Brief. 2017 Aug 3:14:507-514. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.08.002. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Authors

Rachele Antonacci¹, Mariagrazia Bellini¹, Vito Castelli¹, Salvatrice Ciccarese¹, Serafina Massari²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University "Aldo Moro" of Bari, Bari, Italy.
² Department of Biological and Environmental Science e Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.

Abstract

These data are presented in support of structural and evolutionary analysis of the published article entitled "The occurrence of three D-J-C clusters within the dromedary TRB locus highlights a shared evolution in Tylopoda, Ruminantia and Suina" (Antonacci et al., 2017) [1]. Here we describe the genomic structure and the gene content of the T cell receptor beta chain (TRB) locus in Camelus dromedarius. As in the other species of mammals, the general genomic organization of the dromedary TRB locus consists of a pool of TRBV genes located upstream of in tandem TRBD-J-C clusters, followed by a TRBV gene with an inverted transcriptional orientation. A peculiarity of the dromedary TRB locus structure is the presence of three TRBD-J-C clusters, which is a common feature of sheep, cattle and pig sequences.

Keywords: Camelus dromedarius; Dromedary genome; IMGT; T cell receptor; TRB locus.