2014
Altered trafficking and stability of polycystins underlie polycystic kidney disease
Cai Y, Fedeles SV, Dong K, Anyatonwu G, Onoe T, Mitobe M, Gao JD, Okuhara D, Tian X, Gallagher AR, Tang Z, Xie X, Lalioti MD, Lee AH, Ehrlich BE, Somlo S. Altered trafficking and stability of polycystins underlie polycystic kidney disease. Journal Of Clinical Investigation 2014, 124: 5129-5144. PMID: 25365220, PMCID: PMC4348948, DOI: 10.1172/jci67273.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsG-protein-coupled receptor proteolytic sitePolycystic kidney diseaseKidney diseaseGPS cleavageAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseaseMissense mutationsDominant polycystic kidney diseasePolycystin-1Polycystin-2Murine modelSevere formPathogenic missense mutationsPKD1 mutationsCOOH-terminal fragmentDiseaseMissense variantsExpression levelsFunctional assaysCell-based systemsAltered trafficking
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