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