Disruption of formin-encoding transcripts in two mutant limb deformity alleles (original) (raw)
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- Published: 30 August 1990
- Rolf Zeller1 nAff3,
- Richard P. Woychik1 nAff4,
- Thomas F. Vogt1 &
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- Philip Leder1
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THE recent identification of a gene residing at the mouse limb deformity (Id) locus1–5 permits us to test the hypothesis that disruption of this gene is responsible for an inherited anomaly affecting embryonic pattern formation. The gene gives rise to alternatively processed messenger RNAs that can be translated as a family of related protein products, termed the formins1. We have now analysed transcripts from this gene in four independently isolated mutant alleles. In two of these, the _ld_Hd allele (created by insertion of a transgene2) and the _ld_ln2 allele (created by a translocation–inversion involving mouse chromosomes 2 and 17, ref. 6), a common subset of ld transcripts is abolished, but others are apparently unaltered. The correlation of altered transcripts in two independent ld mutants strongly supports the notion that one or more altered formins is responsible for the observed phenotype. That the defect is limited to the limb and kidney, despite expression of ld mRNA in other unaffected organs, suggests that these mutant alleles represent only partial loss of Id function.
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- Richard L. Maas
Present address: Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 75, Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA - Rolf Zeller
Present address: EMBL, Meyerhofstr. 1, D-6900, Heidelberg, FRG - Richard P. Woychik
Present address: Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2009, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
Richard L. Maas, Rolf Zeller, Richard P. Woychik, Thomas F. Vogt & Philip Leder
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Maas, R., Zeller, R., Woychik, R. et al. Disruption of formin-encoding transcripts in two mutant limb deformity alleles.Nature 346, 853–855 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/346853a0
- Received: 13 April 1990
- Accepted: 14 June 1990
- Issue Date: 30 August 1990
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/346853a0