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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation1995

Patients with congenital myasthenia associated with end-plate acetylcholinesterase deficiency show normal sequence, mRNA splicing, and assembly of catalytic subunits.

S Camp, S Bon, Y Li, D K Getman, A G Engel, J Massoulié, P Taylor

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

S CampDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0636.
S Bon
Y Li
D K Getman
A G Engel
J Massoulié
P Taylor
University of California, San Diego · USÉcole Normale Supérieure · BILaboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure · FR

Funding

KINETICS OF DRUG MACROMOLECULE COMPLEX FORMATIONR37GM018360 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TAYLOR, PALMER WILLIAM · 1999 to 2008
$5.7M
KINETICS OF DRUG-MACROMOLECULE COMPLEX FORMATIONR01GM018360 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TAYLOR, PALMER WILLIAM · 1985 to 2013
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM-18360
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A congenital myasthenic condition has been described in several patients characterized by a deficiency in end-plate acetylcholinesterase (AChE). The characteristic form of AChE in the end-plate basal lamina has the catalytic subunits disulfide linked to a collagen-like tail unit. Southern analysis of the gene encoding the catalytic subunits revealed no differences between patient and control DNA. Genomic DNA clones covering exon 4 and the alternatively spliced exons 5 and 6 were analyzed by nuclease protection and sequencing. Although allelic differences were detected between controls, we found no differences in exonic and intronic areas that might yield distinctive splicing patterns in patients and controls. The ACHE gene was cloned from genomic libraries from a patient and a control. Transfection of the cloned genes revealed identical species of mRNA and expressed AChE. Cotransfection of the genes expressing the catalytic subunits with a cDNA from Torpedo encoding the tail unit yielded asymmetric species that require assembly of catalytic subunits and tail unit. thus the catalytic subunits of AChE expressed in the congenital myasthenic syndrome appear identical in sequence, arise from similar splicing patterns, and assemble normally with a tail unit to form a heteromeric species.

Indexed as

AcetylcholinesteraseAdolescentAdultAllelesAlternative SplicingChildCloning, MolecularFemaleGenome, HumanHumansInfantMaleMotor EndplateNeuromuscular DiseasesPolymerase Chain ReactionProtein ConformationAcetylcholinesteraseRNA, Messenger

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PMID7814634
PMCPMC295436
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