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    FEBS Lett. 1996 Feb 26;381(1-2):7-11.

    Identification and characterization of presenilin I-467, I-463 and I-374.

    Sahara N, Yahagi Y, Takagi H, Kondo T, Okochi M, Usami M, Shirasawa T, Mori H.

    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan.

    We cloned a novel isoform of presenilin I (presenilin I-374) besides previously published presenilin I-467 and I-463 in human lymphocytes. Presenilin I-463 was identical to presenilin I-467 except a 12 bp nucleotides deletion in its amino terminal region. Another isoform, presenilin I-374 was produced by an alternative splicing with an additional exon consisting of 92 bp nucleotides (exon 11), which resulted in the frame shift with a stop codon to generate a truncated presenilin consisting of 374 amino acids. The transcripts for presenilin I-467/463 was ubiquitously detected while that for presenilin I-374 was selectively detected in liver, spleen, kidney. Abnormal behavior of presenilin I on gel electrophoresis was found with affinity-purified antibodies against presenilin I.

    PMID: 8641442 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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