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Komei Shirabe1, Yoshishige Kimura, Noritaka Matsuo

  • 1Department of Anatomy, Biology and Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Hasama-machi, Oita 879-5593, Japan. shirabe@med.oita-u.ac.jp

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|July 5, 2005
PubMed

To isolate cDNAs that are involved in limb-motoneuron development, we compared mRNAs of lumbar and thoracic motoneurons purified from spinal cord of E4 chick embryo by differential display. In situ hybridization demonstrated that one of cDNAs is expressed exclusively in lateral motor column in spinal cord from E4 to E10. We identified two mRNA variants for the cDNA by library screening. The long form (788 amino acids) was identical to chick MN-cadherin. The short variant (543 amino acids) lacks the first two of five extracellular domains of MN-cadherin, which commonly exist in classical cadherins. The amino acid sequence of the short form is identical to that of the carboxyl terminal MN-cadherin, except for the distinct signal sequence. The ratio of mRNA of short form to long form was 1-20. cDNA transfection study revealed that the long form but not the short form MN-cadherin had cell adhesion activity.

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