recessive spotting: a linked locus that interacts with W/Kit but is not allelic

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Bennett, DC
Trayner, ID
Piao, XH
Easty, DJ
Kluppel, M
Alexander, WS
Wagner, EF
Bernstein, A
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[1] Univ London St Georges Hosp, Sch Med, London SW17 0RE, England
[2] Mt Sinai Hosp, Samuel Lunenfeld Res Inst, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada
[3] Res Inst Mol Pathol, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00184.x
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Background: The murine coat-colour mutation recessive spotting (rs) maps very closely to the W/Kit locus, encoding the proto-oncoprotein Kit, the protein tyrosine kinase receptor for stem cell factor, Kit is important in the development of melanocytes, germ cells, interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) and haemopoietic lineages, including mast cells. rs has never been genetically separated from Kit, and interacts with Kit mutations, suggesting that it is a recessive allele of Kit, Here we have tested this possibility. We have shown previously that diploid rs/rs melanocytes proliferated more slowly than did +/+ melanocytes, as did an immortal line of rs/rs melanocytes, melan-rs. Results: The Kit mRNA level in rs/rs melanocytes was indistinguishable from that of other melanocyte lines. The Kit cDNA sequence from rs/rs melanocytes and the kinase activity of Kit in rs/rs mast cells appeared to be normal. No deficiency of mast cells or ICC was observed in rs/rs mice. Moreover, following the overexpression of a normal Kit cDNA, proliferation of rs/rs melanocytes was retarded further, but that of +/+ melanocytes was increased, indicating an intracellular interaction between rs and Kit. Of other closely linked tyrosine kinase genes, melanocytes and melanoblasts did not express mRNA for Pdgfra, Flk-1 or Txk, but both expressed Tec, encoding a non-receptor kinase that interacts with Kit. Conclusions: rs is not a mutation in Kit, although we have confirmed that rs interacts with Kit. It seems unlikely that rs affects Pdgfra, Flk-1 or Txk, but Tec remains a candidate for rs.
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