A 5-bp Insertion in Mip Causes Recessive Congenital Cataract in KFRS4/Kyo Rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Watanabe, Kei ^a,b   Wada, Kenta ^a,c   Ohashi, Tomoko ^c,e   Okubo, Saki ^c   Takekuma, Kensuke ^c   Hashizume, Ryoichi ^c   Hayashi, Jun Ichi ^b   Serikawa, Tadao ^d   Kuramoto, Takashi ^d   Kikkawa, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATARACTOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 7; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LENS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MIP GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECESSIVE CONGENITAL CATARACT; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CATARACT; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, RECESSIVE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84870591271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050737     Document Type: Article

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