Publication Date:
2003-12-13
Description:
The neuromuscular disease myotonic dystrophy (DM) is caused by microsatellite repeat expansions at two different genomic loci. Mutant DM transcripts are retained in the nucleus together with the muscleblind (Mbnl) proteins, and these abnormal RNAs somehow interfere with pre-mRNA splicing regulation. Here, we show that disruption of the mouse Mbnl1 gene leads to muscle, eye, and RNA splicing abnormalities that are characteristic of DM disease. Our results support the hypothesis that manifestations of DM can result from sequestration of specific RNA binding proteins by a repetitive element expansion in a mutant RNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kanadia, Rahul N -- Johnstone, Karen A -- Mankodi, Ami -- Lungu, Codrin -- Thornton, Charles A -- Esson, Douglas -- Timmers, Adrian M -- Hauswirth, William W -- Swanson, Maurice S -- AR46799/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- AR46806/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- AR48143/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AR046799/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Dec 12;302(5652):1978-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Powell Gene Therapy Center, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14671308" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alternative Splicing
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Animals
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CELF1 Protein
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Cataract/etiology/pathology
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Cell Nucleus/metabolism
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Chloride Channels/genetics/metabolism
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DNA-Binding Proteins
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Disease Models, Animal
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Electromyography
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Exons
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Gene Targeting
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Introns
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Knockout
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Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/pathology
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Muscle Relaxation
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Muscle, Skeletal/pathology/physiopathology
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Myocardium/metabolism
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Myotonic Dystrophy/*genetics/pathology/*physiopathology
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Protein Isoforms
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RNA Splicing
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RNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics/metabolism/*physiology
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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
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Troponin T/genetics/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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