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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-12-7
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Williams syndrome (WS) is a developmental disorder caused by haploinsufficiency of genes at 7q11.23. We have shown that hemizygosity of elastin is responsible for one feature of WS, supravalvular aortic stenosis. We have also implicated LIM-kinase 1 hemizygosity as a contributing factor to impaired visual-spatial constructive cognition in WS. Here we identify and characterize a novel gene, FKBP6, within the common WS deletion region. FKBP6 shows homology to the FK-506 binding protein (FKBP) class of immunophilins. FKBP6 has a putative N-terminal FK-506 binding and peptidylproyl isomerase (rotamase) domain and, like known high-molecular-weight FKBPs, an imperfect C-terminal tetratricopeptide repeat domain. FKBP6 is expressed in testis, heart, skeletal muscle, liver, and kidney. FKBP6 consists of nine exons and is completely contained within a 35-kb cosmid clone. Fluorescence in situ hybridization experiments show that FKBP6 gene is deleted in 40/40 WS individuals. Hemizygous deletion of FKBP6 may contribute to certain defects such as hypercalcemia and growth delay in WS.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0888-7543
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
130-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Chromosome Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Genes, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Immunophilins, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Physical Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Tacrolimus Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9782077-Williams Syndrome
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
A novel human gene FKBP6 is deleted in Williams syndrome.
pubmed:affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't