ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1991
Absence of the 40-kDa form of (2'-5')oligoadenylate synthetase and its corresponding mRNA from skin fibroblasts derived from Alzheimer disease patients.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1991. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Mitochondrial localization of the OAS1 p46 isoform associated with a common single nucleotide polymorphism.BMC cell biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Cultured skin fibroblasts derived from Alzheimer disease patients fail to express the 1.6-kilobase (kb) mRNA and the corresponding 40-kDa form of (2'-5')oligoadenylate (2-5A) synthetase when exposed to interferon. In addition, the 3.6-kb mRNA, which is present in normal fibroblasts, is barely detectable in the Alzheimer disease counterpart. The deficiency of the 2-5A synthetase 1.6-kb mRNA and its corresponding protein is not related to an impairment of interferon receptors but most probably represents an alteration in the expression of the 2-5A synthetase gene. The data have potential implications for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease and demonstrate that the absence of a specific form of 2-5A synthetase is linked to a disease state.
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