Rodriguez de Cordoba S, Rubinstein P
J Exp Med. 1986 Oct 1;164(4):1274-83. doi: 10.1084/jem.164.4.1274.
The genetic relationships of quantitative and structural variations of the C3b/C4b receptor (CR1) in human erythrocytes have been analyzed in informative families. Our results demonstrate the existence of multiple discrete quantitative variations of CR1 controlled by a locus, C3bRQ, closely linked to the CR1 structural locus, C3bR. Since the amounts of CR1 produced by each C3bR allele are shown to be independently regulated, we propose that a cis-acting genetic mechanism controls the level of expression of the C3bR alleles, and that this quantitative control plays a major, if not the sole, role in determining the total amounts of CR1 on normal human erythrocytes.
在信息丰富的家系中分析了人类红细胞中C3b/C4b受体(CR1)的数量和结构变异的遗传关系。我们的结果表明,存在由一个与CR1结构基因座C3bR紧密连锁的基因座C3bRQ控制的多个离散的CR1数量变异。由于每个C3bR等位基因产生的CR1量显示是独立调节的,我们提出一种顺式作用遗传机制控制C3bR等位基因的表达水平,并且这种数量控制在决定正常人类红细胞上CR1的总量中起主要作用(如果不是唯一作用的话)。