Buckel A, Beeson D, James M, Vincent A
Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Genomics. 1996 Aug 1;35(3):613-6. doi: 10.1006/geno.1996.0409.
We have isolated and sequenced cDNA clones for the human 43-kDa acetylcholine receptor-associated protein rapsyn. The cDNA encodes a 412-amino-acid protein that has a predicted molecular mass of 46,330 Da and shows 96% sequence identity with mouse rapsyn. Analysis of PCR amplifications, first from somatic cell hybrids and subsequently from radiation hybrids, localizes the human RAPSN gene locus to chromosome 11p11.2-p11.1 in close proximity to ACP2.