Immunohistochemical distribution of myotonic dystrophy kinase (DNK) in muscle
- Univ. of Ottawa (Canada)
- Chilrdren`s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa (Canada); and others
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common form of inherited neuromuscular disease in adults and is characterized by progressive muscle wasting and myotonia. The mutation responsible for DM has been identified as the expansion of a polymorphic (CTG)n repeat in the 3{prime} untranslated region of a gene encoding a putative serine/threonine kinase (DMK). We have raised a polyclonal raised a polyclonal rabbit antisera against a fusion protein encoding exons 11-15 of DMK. The antisera detects both the full length and a truncated isoform (missing amino acids corresponding to exons 13-15) of the human DMK expressed in a recombinant baculovirus system. In addition, it recognizes a 69 kDA protein on Western blots of both human and mouse myoblasts. Use of this antiserum in immunohistochemical studies of human tissue demonstrates that DMK is expressed in the cytoplasm of both skeletal and smooth muscle and is expressed postsynaptically (as determined by codistribution with acetylcholinesterase and acetylcholine receptors) within the vicinity of neuromuscular junction of skeletal muscle. Further, no obvious differences in DMK localization were observed between muscle tissues from normal and DM-affected individuals.
- OSTI ID:
- 133806
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009--
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Human Genetics, Journal Name: American Journal of Human Genetics Journal Issue: Suppl.3 Vol. 55; ISSN AJHGAG; ISSN 0002-9297
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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