title: Reln(rl-Alb2), an allele of reeler isolated from a chlorambucil screen, is due to an IAP insertion with exon skipping.
abstract: The reeler Albany2 mutation (Reln(rl-Alb2) in the mouse is an allele of reeler isolated during a chlorambucil mutagenesis screen. Homozygous animals had drastically reduced concentrations of reelin mRNA, in which an 85-nt exon was absent. At the genomic level, the mutation was shown to be due to an intracisternal A-particle insertion leading to exon skipping. This appears to be the first observation of retrotransposon insertion during chlorambucil mutagenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, FUNDP Medical School, Namur, Belgium.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Royaux
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bernier
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Montgomery
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Flaherty
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Goffinet
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015816:Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal / Q000235:genetics*; D002699:Chlorambucil / Q000494:pharmacology; D005091:Exons; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D007426:Genes, Intracisternal A-Particle; D006720:Homozygote; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D000091042:Reelin Protein; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases
chemical_list: D015816:Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D000091042:Reelin Protein; D002699:Chlorambucil; C000717128:Reln protein, mouse; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases