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Title:
ニューロンニコチン性アセチルコリン受容体のβ2-サブユニットの調節配列及びこれをコードする配列を含むゲノムDNA断片、及びこれらの断片又は突然変異断片を用いて作製されたトランスジェニック動物
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4450874
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
Several genes encoding subunits of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors have been cloned and regulatory elements involved in the transcription of the alpha :2 and alpha :7-subunit genes have been described. Yet, the detailed mechanisms governing the neuron-specific transcription and the spatio-temporal expression pattern of these genes remain largely uninvestigated. The beta 2-subunit is the most widely expressed neuronal nicotinic receptors subunit in the nervous system. We have studied the structural and regulatory properties of the 5' sequence of this gene. A fragment of 1163 bp of upstream sequence is sufficient to drive the cell-specific transcription of a reporter gene in both transient transfection assays and in transgenic mice. Deletion analysis and site-directed mutagenesis of this promoter reveal two negative and one positive element. The positively acting sequence includes one functional E-box. One of the repressor elements is located in the transcribed region and is the NRSE/RE1 sequence already described in promoters of neuronal genes.

Inventors:
Jean-Pierre Shangju
Marina Pitch Otto
Alan Bethes
Application Number:
JP32609495A
Publication Date:
April 14, 2010
Filing Date:
December 14, 1995
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Assignee:
INSTITUT PASTEUR
International Classes:
A01K67/027; C07H21/04; C12N15/09; C07K14/705; C07K14/715; C12N5/10; C12N15/12; C12N15/85; C12Q1/68
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hajime Tsukuni
Fusayuki Saito
Yuichi Okazaki