Congenital erythropoietic porphyria: a novel uroporphyrinogen III synthase branchpoint mutation reveals underlying wild-type alternatively spliced transcripts.
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Splicing mutations account for approximately 10% of lesions causing genetic diseases, but few branchpoint sequence (BPS) lesions have been reported. In 3 families with autosomal recessive congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP) resulting from uroporphyrinogen III synthase (URO-synthase) deficiency, sequencing the promoter, all 10 exons and the intron/exon boundaries did not detect a mutation. Northern analyses of lymphoblast mRNAs from 2 patients and reverse-transcribed polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of lymphoblast mRNAs from all 3 patients revealed multiple longer transcripts involving intron 9 and low levels of wild-type message. Sequencing intron 9 RT-PCR products and genomic DNA in each case revealed homozygosity for a novel BPS mutation (c.661-31T-->G) and alternatively spliced transcripts containing 81, 246, 358, and 523 nucleotides from intron 9. RT-PCR revealed aberrant transcripts in both wild-type and CEP lymphoblasts, whereas BPS mutation reduced the wild-type transcript and enzyme activity in CEP lymphoblasts to approximately 10% and 15% of normal, respectively. Although the +81-nucleotide alternative transcript was in-frame, it only contributed approximately 0.2% of the lymphoblast URO-synthase activity. Thus, the BPS mutation markedly reduced the wild-type transcript and enzyme activity, thereby causing the disease. This is the first BPS mutation in the last intron, presumably accounting for the observed 100% intron retention without exon skipping.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Blood
دوره 115 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010