PKD2, a gene for polycystic kidney disease that encodes an integral membrane protein.
Mochizuki T,
Wu G,
Hayashi T,
Xenophontos SL,
Veldhuisen B,
Saris JJ,
Reynolds DM,
Cai Y,
Gabow PA,
Pierides A,
Kimberling WJ,
Breuning MH,
Deltas CC,
Peters DJ,
Somlo S.
Renal Division, Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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.
PMID: 8650545 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]