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ACTA1  -  actin, alpha 1, skeletal muscle

Homo sapiens

Synonyms: ACTA, ASMA, Actin, alpha skeletal muscle, Alpha-actin-1, CFTD, ...
 
 
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Disease relevance of ACTA1

 

Psychiatry related information on ACTA1

  • We have used a factor analysis of the Stiles-Burch [Opt. Acta 6, 1 (1959)] 10 degrees field color matches to examine the basis of individual differences in the color matches made by observers with normal color vision [7].
  • When the expression of these isozymes in control brains was compared with that in Alzheimer's disease brains staged according to Braak and Braak (Acta Neuropathol. (Berl.) 82 (1991), 239), we found that PDE8B was the only isozyme showing a significant increase, in cortical areas and parts of the hippocampal formation, at Braak stages III-VI [8].
  • The highest ASMA scores and lowest levels of RPI were found in heroin users [9].
  • Reaction time (RT) to abrupt-onset stimuli has been widely used for more than a century to measure the duration of perceptuo-cognitive and motor processes [Donders, 1868/1969 Attention and Performance II (1969 Acta Psychologica 30 412-431)] [10].
  • This paper summarizes the clinical and genetic features of a disease occurring in 16 patients from the same extended family, which resembles the multi-infarct dementia described by Sourander and Wålinder [Acta neuropath. 39: 247-254, 1977] [11].
 

High impact information on ACTA1

 

Chemical compound and disease context of ACTA1

 

Biological context of ACTA1

  • The marked variability, in clinical phenotype, among patients with different mutations in ACTA1 suggests that both the site of the mutation and the nature of the amino acid change have differential effects on thin-filament formation and protein-protein interactions [20].
  • Most pathogenic ACTA1 mutations were missense changes with two instances of single base pair deletions [4].
  • This cohort also includes the first instance of an ACTA1 mutation manifesting with adult-onset disease and two pedigrees exhibiting potential incomplete penetrance [4].
  • Assignment of the human skeletal muscle [FC12]a-actin gene (ACTA1) to chromosome 1q42.13-->q42.2 by radiation hybrid mapping [21].
  • Analysis of the DNA sequences of the 5' end of the clones demonstrated that although beta- and gamma-actin genes start with a methionine codon (MET-Asp-Asp-Asp and MET-Glu-Glu-Glu, respectively), the alpha-actin gene starts with a methionine codon followed by a cysteine codon (MET-CYS-Asp-Glu-Asp-Glu) [22].
 

Anatomical context of ACTA1

 

Associations of ACTA1 with chemical compounds

 

Physical interactions of ACTA1

  • Resolution of the approximately 1.0 microm polarized alpha-actin/nebulin/tropomyosin/troponin thin filament complexes occurred subsequent to the maturation of Z-bands into a dense tetragonal configuration [29].
  • However, under these conditions profilin formed a stable stoichiometric complex with skeletal muscle alpha-actin, as verified by its ability to increase the critical concentration of actin polymerization [30].
  • Thus, muscle-specific regulation of the human skeletal alpha-actin gene appears to require interactions between the other elements of the composite DRE enhancer with the protein:DNA complex formed by DRF-2 [31].
  • Activation of the human cardiac alpha-actin (HCA) promoter in skeletal muscle cells requires the integrity of DNA binding sites for the serum response factor (SRF), Sp1, and the myogenic basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family [32].
  • Positively acting, rate-limiting regulatory factors that influence tissue-specific expression of the human cardiac alpha-actin gene in a mouse muscle cell line are shown by in vivo competition and gel mobility-shift assays to bind to upstream regions of its promoter but to neither vector DNA nor a beta-globin promoter [33].
 

Regulatory relationships of ACTA1

 

Other interactions of ACTA1

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of ACTA1

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