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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Preferential pre-mRNA utilisation of an upstream cryptic 5' splice site created by a single base deletion mutation in exon 37 of the FBN-1 gene |
Author: | Gibson, M. Ellis, S. Ades, L. Haan, E. Cleary, E. |
Citation: | The Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Journal, 1998; 256(1):221-228 |
Publisher: | SPRINGER VERLAG |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
ISSN: | 0014-2956 1432-1033 |
Abstract: | A heterozygous deletion of a single base (A4704) from exon 37 of the fibrillin-1 gene was defined in a patient with Marfan syndrome and subsequently in his previously undiagnosed father. The deletion created a cryptic 5' splice site in exon 37 which was utilised in preference to the normal 5' splice site during pre-mRNA processing in skin fibroblasts cultured from the proband. The mutant mRNA showed a 48-bp deletion from the 3' end of exon 37 which was predicted to restore the reading frame in the mutant mRNA and result in the deletion of a 16-amino-acid sequence from a central eight-cysteine repeat motif of the fibrillin-1 molecule. Interestingly, the cryptic 5' splice site in exon 37 and the normal 5' splice site had equally strong consensuses for splice-site selection. The preferential utilisation of the cryptic site is discussed in relation to current theories on the mechanisms involved in pre-mRNA splicing. Analysis by reverse-transcription PCR indicated that, in the patients skin fibroblasts, the steady-state level of the mis-spliced mutant mRNA was close to that from the normal allele. In addition, evidence from immunoblotting and pulse-chase biosynthetic labelling indicated that close to normal amounts of fibrillin-1 were being synthesised and secreted by the cells. However, in contrast to control cells cultured from an unaffected individual, little fibrillin-1 was detected, either biosynthetically or by immunofluorescence, in the extracellular matrix produced by the proband's fibroblasts. Thus, the slightly shorter mutant fibrillin-1 molecules appeared to be exerting a powerful dominant-negative effect on the incorporation of normal fibrillin-1 molecules into microfibrils in this culture system. This severe inhibition of microfibril synthesis in cell culture contrasts with the 'classic' phenotype of the proband, suggesting that factors influencing microfibril formation may differ greatly between in vivo and in vitro environments. |
Keywords: | Fibroblasts Humans Marfan Syndrome Microfilament Proteins RNA Precursors RNA, Messenger Gene Amplification RNA Splicing Sequence Deletion Amino Acid Sequence Base Sequence Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Mutation Exons Molecular Sequence Data Child Male Fibrillin-1 Fibrillins |
Description: | Article first published online: 25 DEC 2001 |
Rights: | Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2560221.x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2560221.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Paediatrics publications |
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