1. Expression of a novel versican variant in dorsal root ganglia from spared nerve injury rats
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Stefan Tomiuk, Oliver Bogen, Pedro Alvarez, Ferdinand Hucho, Jon D. Levine, Marie Kern, and Olaf Bender
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,RNA Stability ,Messenger ,eIF2α(PO4)2 ,Neurodegenerative ,Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,Exon ,Versicans ,0302 clinical medicine ,Ganglia, Spinal ,Isolectin B4 ,Exons ,Cell biology ,Codon, Terminator ,Molecular Medicine ,Versican ,medicine.symptom ,Research Article ,Dorsum ,Spinal ,Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animals ,splice ,Terminator ,RNA, Messenger ,Codon ,Peripheral Neuropathy ,Gene ,neuropathic pain ,Neurology & Neurosurgery ,Modular structure ,Neurosciences ,nonsense mediated RNA decay ,eIF2 alpha(PO4)(2-) ,Nerve injury ,Rats ,carbohydrates (lipids) ,030104 developmental biology ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,biology.protein ,RNA ,Neuralgia ,Ganglia ,Sprague-Dawley ,Biochemistry and Cell Biology ,nerve injury ,Isolectin b4 ,eIF2α(PO) ,030217 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
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