Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 512, Issue 1-3, Pages 291-297Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(02)02251-2
Keywords
Friedreich ataxia; GAA repeat; frataxin; knockin mice; iron metabolism
Funding
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 52380, T32-DK 07115] Funding Source: Medline
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Friedreich ataxia is the consequence of frataxin deficiency, most often caused by a GAA repeat expansion in intron I of the corresponding gene. Frataxin is a mitochondrial protein involved in iron homeostasis. As an attempt to generate a mouse model of the disease, we introduced a (GAA)(230) repeat within the mouse frataxin gene by homologous recombination. GAA repeat knockin mice were crossed with frataxin knockout mice to obtain double heterozygous mice expressing 25-36% of wild-type frataxin levels. These mice were viable and did not develop anomalies of motor coordination, iron metabolism or response to iron loading. Repeats were meiotically and mitotically stable. (C) 2002 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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