title: The structural organization of the human skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RYR1) gene.
abstract: The RYR1 gene encoding the Ca2+ release channel of human skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum has been cloned and exon/intron boundaries have been determined, together with a minimum of 30 bp of intron sequence flanking each splice junction. The gene contains 106 exons, of which two are alternatively spliced. The length of the gene, determined by the alignment of 16 genomic phage clones, a cosmid clone, and several long polymerase chain reaction products, is approximately 160 kb. Exons range from 15 to 813 bp, while introns range from 85 to about 16,000 bp. Analysis of the gene has confirmed published errors in the human RYR1 cDNA and confirmed the structure of two alternatively spliced exons. The numbering of the nucleotides comprising the RYR1 cDNA and the numbering of amino acids encoded by them were corrected to account for these earlier errors and omissions. Analysis of 2.4 kb of the 5' upstream sequence indicated the presence of a CCAAT box and several Sp1 binding sites between nucleotides -200 and -60 bp, flanking the proposed transcription start site at -130 bp. Several other potential transcription factor binding sites were identified throughout the 5' sequence. Knowledge of the structure of the RYR1 gene will provide an invaluable resource for the discovery of mutations in the gene that are causal of human malignant hyperthermia and central core disease.
authors.affiliation: Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Charles H. Best Institute, 112 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G1L6, Canada.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Khanna
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: DeLeon
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokobata
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: de Jong
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: MacLennan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns; D008305:Malignant Hyperthermia / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D009154:Mutation; D012326:RNA Splicing; D019837:Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D019837:Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel