Identification and characterization of polycystin-2, thePKD2 gene product

Y Cai, Y Maeda, A Cedzich, VE Torres, G Wu… - Journal of Biological …, 1999 - ASBMB
… NH 2 and COOH termini to identify polycystin-2 as an ∼110-kDa integral membrane
glycoprotein. Polycystin-2 … typical of pre-middle Golgi proteins. Immunofluorescent cell staining of …

Cellular and subcellular distribution of polycystin-2, the protein product of the PKD2 gene

L Foggensteiner, AP Bevan, R Thomas… - Journal of the …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
… Targeted mutations in the murine pkd1 and pkd2 genes also produce a cystic phenotype,
suggesting that the protein products of these two genes, polycystin-1 and polycystin-2, may …

Cell biology of polycystin-2

L Tsiokas, S Kim, EC Ong - Cellular signalling, 2007 - Elsevier
… The protein products of pkd1 and pkd2, originally called … or polycystin-1 and 2, respectively,
are large, membrane-associated proteins with putative roles in signal transduction and Ca 2

The polycystic kidney disease proteins, polycystin-1, polycystin-2, polaris, and cystin, are co-localized in renal cilia

BK Yoder, X Hou… - Journal of the American …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Polycystin-2, the protein product of PKD2, is also predicted to encode an integral membrane
proteinPolycystin-2 has significant amino acid homology to the trp family of store-operated (…

Vascular expression of polycystin-2

VE Torres, Y Cai, XI Chen, GQ Wu… - Journal of the …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
… The recent observations that polycystin-1, the product of PKD1, … polycystin-2 are also
expressed in cultured aortic smooth muscle cells and that the pattern of expression of polycystin-2

Polycystin-2 immunolocalization and function in zebrafish

T Obara, S Mangos, Y Liu, J Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
… sequence predicted on the basis of nucleotide sequence of RT-PCR products amplified
from MO-injected embryos. In-frame deletions are shown in gray for MOex3, MOex5, and …

Cellular and molecular function of mucolipins (TRPML) and polycystin 2 (TRPP2)

F Qian, K Noben-Trauth - Pflügers Archiv, 2005 - Springer
… , TRPML) and polycystin-2 proteins (transient receptor potential polycystin, TRPP) constitute
… to a C-terminal subregion of polycystin-1, the gene product of PKD1. A number of additional …

Fibrocystin/polyductin, found in the same protein complex with polycystin-2, regulates calcium responses in kidney epithelia

S Wang, J Zhang, SM Nauli, X Li… - … and cellular biology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… /polyductin (FPC), polycystin-1 (PC1), and polycystin-2 (PC2) are all … of FPC, the protein
product encoded by the PKHD1 gene … These findings suggest that FPC and polycystins share, at …

A truncated polycystin-2 protein causes polycystic kidney disease and retinal degeneration in transgenic rats

AR Gallagher, S Hoffmann, N Brown… - Journal of the …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
… formation, two transgenic rat lines that contain a truncated human polycystin-2 cDNA were
generated. The protein product lacks almost the entire COOH-terminus and mimics mutations …

Polycystin-2 is an intracellular calcium release channel

P Koulen, Y Cai, L Geng, Y Maeda, S Nishimura… - Nature cell …, 2002 - nature.com
Polycystin-2, the product of the gene mutated in type 2 autosomal dominant polycystic
kidney disease (ADPKD), is the prototypical member of a subfamily of the transient receptor …