title: BTN1, a yeast gene corresponding to the human gene responsible for Batten's disease, is not essential for viability, mitochondrial function, or degradation of mitochondrial ATP synthase.
abstract: The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene BTN1, encodes a 408 amino acid putative integral membrane protein, which is 39% identical and 59% similar to the human Cln3p, whose mutant forms are responsible for Batten's disease and for a diminished degradation of mitochondrial ATPase synthase subunit c. Disruption experiments established that Btn1p is not essential for viability, mitochondrial function, or degradation of mitochondrial ATP synthase in yeast.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical School, NY 14642, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Pearce
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sherman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D016213:Cyclins; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology*; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009472:Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses / Q000235:genetics*; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
chemical_list: C079895:CLN3 protein, S cerevisiae; C105199:CLN3 protein, human; D016213:Cyclins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C489809:YHC3 protein, S cerevisiae; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases