1. Expression of a novel versican variant in dorsal root ganglia from spared nerve injury rats
- Author
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Bogen, Oliver, Bender, Olaf, Alvarez, Pedro, Kern, Marie, Tomiuk, Stefan, Hucho, Ferdinand, and Levine, Jon D
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Peripheral Neuropathy ,Genetics ,Neurodegenerative ,Neurosciences ,Animals ,Codon ,Terminator ,Exons ,Ganglia ,Spinal ,Male ,Neuralgia ,RNA Stability ,RNA ,Messenger ,Rats ,Rats ,Sprague-Dawley ,Versicans ,Versican ,nerve injury ,neuropathic pain ,nonsense mediated RNA decay ,eIF2 alpha(PO4)(2-) ,Isolectin B4 ,eIF2α(PO) ,Biochemistry and Cell Biology ,Neurology & Neurosurgery - Abstract
The size and modular structure of versican and its gene suggest the existence of multiple splice variants. We have identified, cloned, and sequenced a previously unknown exon located within the noncoding gene sequence downstream of exon 8. This exon, which we have named exon 8β, specifies two stop-codons. mRNAs of the versican gene with exon 8β are predicted to be constitutively degraded by nonsense-mediated RNA decay. Here, we tested the hypothesis that these transcripts become expressed in a model of neuropathic pain.
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- 2019