| Literature DB >> 12163037 |
Bosong Dai1, Nehad Saada, Clement Echetebu, Christine Dettbarn, Philip Palade.
Abstract
The cardiac Ca channel known as alpha1C or Ca(V)1.2 is shown to express a new longer first exon equivalent to that formerly reported in rabbit heart or rat aorta. Ribonuclease protection assay indicates that this exon is found in the majority of Ca(V)1.2 transcripts in human heart RNA. The presence of this exon also suggests that expression of this transcript is driven by a promoter immediately upstream of this exon and its 5' untranslated region. The putative promoter exhibits 69% homology to its rat counterpart and displays functional promoter activity when transfected into heart cells in culture in luciferase-expressing constructs.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12163037 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)00894-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN: 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575