1999
Aberrant splicing in the PKD2 gene as a cause of polycystic kidney disease.
Reynolds DM, Hayashi T, Cai Y, Veldhuisen B, Watnick TJ, Lens XM, Mochizuki T, Qian F, Maeda Y, Li L, Fossdal R, Coto E, Wu G, Breuning MH, Germino GG, Peters DJ, Somlo S. Aberrant splicing in the PKD2 gene as a cause of polycystic kidney disease. Journal Of The American Society Of Nephrology 1999, 10: 2342-51. PMID: 10541293, DOI: 10.1681/asn.v10112342.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPolycystin-2Mutant polycystin-2Future functional studiesNovel intragenic polymorphismsFrame splice variantsMissense variantsSingle base substitution mutationsPolycystin-2 proteinCryptic splice siteAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseaseBase substitution mutationsTransmembrane spansSingle base substitutionPolycystic kidney diseaseSplicing signalsSubunit functionAberrant splicingLymphoblast RNAMutant chromosomesSplice siteSubstitution mutationsPKD2 geneThird mutationBase substitutionsSplice variants
1996
PKD2, a Gene for Polycystic Kidney Disease That Encodes an Integral Membrane Protein
Mochizuki T, Wu G, Hayashi T, Xenophontos S, Veldhuisen B, Saris J, Reynolds D, Cai Y, Gabow P, Pierides A, Kimberling W, Breuning M, Deltas C, Peters D, Somlo S. PKD2, a Gene for Polycystic Kidney Disease That Encodes an Integral Membrane Protein. Science 1996, 272: 1339-1342. PMID: 8650545, DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5266.1339.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceCaenorhabditis elegansCalcium ChannelsChromosome MappingChromosomes, Human, Pair 4Cloning, MolecularConsensus SequenceCrystallography, X-RayFemaleGlycosylationHumansMaleMembrane ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataMutationPedigreePhenotypePolycystic Kidney, Autosomal DominantPolymorphism, Single-Stranded ConformationalProteinsSodium ChannelsTRPP Cation ChannelsConceptsCaenorhabditis elegans homologIntegral membrane proteinsAmino acid similarityPKD2 gene productCalcium-binding domainPKD2 proteinTransmembrane spansPolycystic kidney diseasePositional cloningPotential calcium-binding domainsSecond geneMembrane proteinsGene productsAcid sequenceIntracellular aminoNonsense mutationGenesAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseasePKD1Dominant polycystic kidney diseasePKD2 familiesProteinVoltage-activated calcium channelsHomologCalcium channels