title: Molecular cloning of three isoforms of the L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel beta subunit from normal human heart.
abstract: We have cloned and sequenced cDNAs for three isoforms of the L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel beta subunit isolated from a normal human heart cDNA library. One of these subunits, designated beta a, hybridized with a 3.4-kb message, and the other two, designated beta b and beta c, hybridized with a message of approximately 1.9 kb. The presence of both of these latter two messages in human heart was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction methodology. Considering the differences between beta a and beta b/beta c, we find it likely that these messages may be encoded by two different gene sequences, beta a and beta b/beta c, and that the beta b/beta c sequence can be alternatively spliced in the 209-260 region. The data suggest that the human heart presents a different pattern of beta subunit expression from that found in the rat and rabbit heart.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH 45267-0575.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Collin
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nargeot
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels