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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-3-7
pubmed:abstractText
Down syndrome (DS) is the most frequent genetic disorder with mental retardation and caused by trisomy 21. Although the gene dosage effect hypothesis has been proposed to explain the impact of extra chromosome 21 on the pathology of DS, a series of evidence that challenge this hypothesis has been reported. The availability of the complete sequences of genes on chromosome 21 serves now as starting point to find functional information of the gene products, but information on gene products is limited so far. We therefore evaluated expression levels of six proteins whose genes are encoded on chromosome 21 (synaptojanin-1, chromosome 21 open reading frame 2, oligomycin sensitivity confering protein, peptide 19, cystatin B and adenosine deaminase RNA-specific 2) in fetal cerebral cortex from DS and controls at 18-19 weeks of gestational age using Western blot analysis. Synaptojanin-1 and C21orf2 were increased in DS, but others were comparable between DS and controls, suggesting that the DS phenotype cannot be simply explained by gene dosage effects. We are systematically quantifying all proteins whose genes are encoded on chromosome 21 in order to provide a better understanding of the pathobiochemistry of DS at the protein level. These studies are of significance as they show for the first time protein levels that are carrying out specific function in human fetal brain with DS.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0939-4451
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
127-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Protein levels of genes encoded on chromosome 21 in fetal Down syndrome brain: challenging the gene dosage effect hypothesis (Part III).
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article