Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 5, 33-40, Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press
S Banfi, A Servadio, M Chung, F Capozzoli, LA Duvick, R Elde, HY Zoghbi and HT Orr
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is an autosomal dominant
neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide
repeat which encodes glutamine in the novel protein ataxin-1. In order to
characterize the developmental expression pattern of SCA1 and to identify
putative functional domains in ataxin-1, the murine homolog (Sca1) was
isolated. Cloning and characterization of the murine Sca1 gene revealed
that the gene organization is similar to that of the human gene. The murine
and human ataxin-1 are highly homologous but the CAG repeat is virtually
absent in the mouse sequence suggesting that the polyglutamine stretch is
not essential for the normal function of ataxin-1 in mice. Cellular and
developmental expression of the murine homolog was examined using RNA in
situ hybridization. During cerebellar development, there is a transient
burst of Sca1 expression at postnatal day 14 when the murine cerebellar
cortex becomes physiologically functional. There is also marked expression
of Sca1 in mesenchymal cells of the intervertebral discs during development
of the spinal column. These results suggest that the normal Sca1 gene, has
a role at specific stages of both cerebellar and vertebral column
development.
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Cloning and developmental expression analysis of the murine homolog of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 gene (Sca1)
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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