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<b> <i>PKD2</i> </b> , a Gene for Polycystic Kidney Disease That Encodes an Integral Membrane Protein

SciencePublished 31 May 1996
Toshio Mochizuki, Guanqing Wu, Tomohito Hayashi, Stavroulla Xenophontos, Barbera Veldhuisen, Jasper J. Saris
Citations1,413
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62

TL;DR

A second gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease was identified by positional cloning and it has amino acid similarity with PKD1, the Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of PKD 1, and the family of voltage-activated calcium channels.

Abstract

A second gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease was identified by positional cloning. Nonsense mutations in this gene (PKD2) segregated with the disease in three PKD2 families. The predicted 968-amino acid sequence of the PKD2 gene product has six transmembrane spans with intracellular amino- and carboxyl-termini. The PKD2 protein has amino acid similarity with PKD1, the Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of PKD1, and the family of voltage-activated calcium (and sodium) channels, and it contains a potential calcium-binding domain.

Keywords

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology