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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-5-11
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Mutations in the novel gene, EPM2A, have been shown recently to cause the progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora type. EPM2A is predicted to encode a putative protein-tyrosine phosphatase but its specific role in normal brain function and in the Lafora disease is not known. As a first step towards understanding the cellular function of EPM2A in an animal model, we have isolated cDNA clones for mouse EPM2A and analyzed its expression. Sequence analyses of the mouse cDNA clones revealed a complete ORF that supports the 5' coding sequence predicted for human EPM2A from the genomic sequence. When compared to EPM2A, the mouse homologue, named Epm2a, shows 86% identity at the nucleotide level and 88% identity and 93% similarity at the amino acid level. Similar to the human counterpart, Epm2a showed ubiquitous expression in Northern with a major transcript size of 3.5 kb. We have mapped the Epm2a to the proximal region of mouse chromosome 10 which is the syntenic region for human chromosome band, 6q24. Our results suggest that EPM2A is highly conserved in mammals and might have a conserved function.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0006-291X
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
257
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
24-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10092504-3' Untranslated Regions, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Codon, Initiator, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Dual-Specificity Phosphatases, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Epilepsies, Myoclonic, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Genomic Library, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Physical Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-Receptor, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:10092504-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation and characterization of mouse homologue for the human epilepsy gene, EPM2A.
pubmed:affiliation
Brain Science Institute, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article