Abstract
A second gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease was identified by positional cloning. Nonsense mutations in this gene (PKD2) segregated with the disease in three PKD2 families. The predicted 968-amino acid sequence of the PKD2 gene product has six transmembrane spans with intracellular amino- and carboxyl-termini. The PKD2 protein has amino acid similarity with PKD1, the Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of PKD1, and the family of voltage-activated calcium (and sodium) channels, and it contains a potential calcium-binding domain.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1339-1342 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 272 |
| Issue number | 5266 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 May 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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