Exclusion of WNT4 as a major gene in Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser anomaly.
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Abnormalities, Multiple↗
Biomedical subjects
Mathieu Clément-Ziza
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GeneRetriever: software to extract all genes and transcripts in between two genetic markers to assist design of human custom microarrays.
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Algorithms↗
Polyalanine expansions in human.
Beside the well-known polyglutamine expansions involved in several neurodegenerative disorders, convergent recent findings pointed to the expansion of polyalanine stretches as a disease mechanism in congenital malformations, skeletal dysplasia and nervous system anomalies. Polyalanine stretches have been predicted in roughly 500 human proteins among which nine have been ascribed to disease phenotype by expansion of polyalanines. The function of polyalanine stretches is largely unknown. This paper aims to review the rapidly growing evidences for a disease-causing mechanism common to expansion of homopolymeric tracts whatever the amino acid involved is.
Animals↗
Characterization of a putative type IV aminophospholipid transporter P-type ATPase.
The P-type ATPases comprise a well-studied family of proteins involved in the active transport of charged substrates across biological membranes. Starting from a mouse bone marrow-derived macrophage cDNA library and using a signal peptide trapping strategy, we identified a new P-type ATPase family member. We characterized the genomic structure of this gene, named Atp10d, as well as its human counterpart. The presence of P-type ATPase consensus motifs and phylogenetic analysis showed that this gene is a member of the type IV, putative amphipath transporters subfamily. We showed that this gene is expressed in kidney and placenta. We also found that the C57BL/6 strain carries a constitutive stop codon in the sequence of Atp10d exon 12, whereas 14 other inbred mouse strains show an uninterrupted reading frame at this location. This mutation in C57BL/6 should lead to a non-functional protein, suggesting that this gene may not be essential. We discuss the involvement of the Atp10d gene in the fat-prone phenotype of the C57BL/6 strain and its physical mapping within a QTL associated with HDL-cholesterol levels.
Adenosine Triphosphatases↗