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NEUROREPORT
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 321-324Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200102120-00028
Keywords
chromosomal mapping; histamine H-3 receptor gene; isoforms; retention/deletion; splicing
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The histamine H-3 receptor (H3R) was recently cloned, and two isoforms, termed H-3L and H-3S, differing in the third intracytosolic loop, were isolated but the chromosomal mapping and organization of its gene remained unknown. PCR analysis of a human x rodent cell hybrid panel indicated that the H3R gene is located in the telomeric region of chromosome 20q. Alignment of human H3R cDNA sequences with DNA sequences of this chromosome revealed that its coding region comprises three exons interrupted by two introns located in the second transmembrane domain (TM2) and second intracytosolic loop, respectively. Thus the organization of the H3R gene indicates that the H-3L and H-3S isoforms, that we characterized not only in rodents but also in humans, are generated by retention and deletion, respectively, of a pseudo-intron located in the third intracytosolic loop. NeuroReport 12:321-324 (C) 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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