The mouse secreted gel-forming mucin gene cluster.

Using genomic cosmid and BAC clones and genome shotgun supercontigs available in GenBank, we determined the complete gene structure of the four mouse secreted gel-forming mucin genes Muc2, Muc5ac, Muc5b and Muc6 and the organization of the genomic locus harboring these genes. The mouse secreted gel-forming mucin gene is 215 kb on distal chromosome 7 to 69.0 cM from the centromere and organized as: Muc6-Muc2-Muc5ac-Muc5b with Muc2, Muc5ac and Muc5b arranged in the same orientation and Muc6 in opposite.