Cloning and analysis of the 5' flanking sequence of the rat N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 1 (NMDAR1) gene.
We cloned and analyzed a 3.8 kb EcoRI fragment of the rat NMDAR1 gene. It contains 3 kb of promoter/enhancer region, exon 1 and a portion of intron 1. Two major transcription start sites were identified at -276 and -238 from the first nucleotide in codon 1. One GSG and two SP1 motifs, but no TATA/CAAT boxes, exist in the region proximal to the transcription start sites. Our results suggest that NMDAR1 has the characteristics of a housekeeping gene and may be regulated by immediate-early genes.
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National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Baltimore, MD 21224.
Kusiak
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005091:Exons; D017781:Genes, Immediate-Early; D015698:Genomic Library; D007438:Introns; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
D012333:RNA, Messenger; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate