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Shakya R, Tarulli GA, Sheng L, Lokman NA, Ricciardelli C, Pishas KI, Selinger CI, Kohonen-Corish MRJ, Cooper WA, Turner AG, Neilsen PM, Callen DF. Mutant p53 upregulates alpha-1 antitrypsin expression and promotes invasion in lung cancer. Oncogene 2017; 36:4469-4480. [PMID: 28368395 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2017.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 02/05/2017] [Accepted: 02/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Missense mutations in the TP53 tumor-suppressor gene inactivate its antitumorigenic properties and endow the incipient cells with newly acquired oncogenic properties that drive invasion and metastasis. Although the oncogenic effect of mutant p53 transcriptome has been widely acknowledged, the global influence of mutant p53 on cancer cell proteome remains to be fully elucidated. Here, we show that mutant p53 drives the release of invasive extracellular factors (the 'secretome') that facilitates the invasion of lung cancer cell lines. Proteomic characterization of the secretome from mutant p53-inducible H1299 human non-small cell lung cancer cell line discovered that the mutant p53 drives its oncogenic pathways through modulating the gene expression of numerous targets that are subsequently secreted from the cells. Of these genes, alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT) was identified as a critical effector of mutant p53 that drives invasion in vitro and in vivo, together with induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition markers expression. Mutant p53 upregulated A1AT transcriptionally through the involvement with its family member p63. Conditioned medium containing secreted A1AT enhanced cell invasion, while an A1AT-blocking antibody attenuated the mutant p53-driven migration and invasion. Importantly, high A1AT expression correlated with increased tumor stage, elevated p53 staining and shorter overall survival in lung adenocarcinoma patients. Collectively, these findings suggest that A1AT is an indispensable target of mutant p53 with prognostic and therapeutic potential in mutant p53-expressing tumors.
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- R Shakya
- Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Robinson Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,Adelaide Proteomics Centre, School of Molecular and Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Robinson Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.,Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.,Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Sheng L, Turner AG, Tarulli GA, Barratt K, Kremer R, Morris HA, Callen DF, Anderson PH. Abstract P4-05-02: Conditional inactivation of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D-24-hydroxylase (Cyp24a1) in the mouse mammary epithelium alters mammary gland development. Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs16-p4-05-02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The biologically active form of vitamin D (1,25(OH)2D) regulates proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis in diverse cell types. We have previously identified anti-proliferative activities of 1,25(OH)2D in human breast tissue, as well as 1,25(OH)2D target gene expression consistent with reports that elevated vitamin D levels may protect against cancer. In mouse studies, vitamin D signaling modulates normal mammary gland development, including ductal outgrowth and branching, and protects against tumorigenesis. Degradation of 1,25(OH)2D is initiated by the enzyme Cyp24a1 in target tissues, providing critical local control of 1,25(OH)2D bioactivity. In vitro, blockade of Cyp24a1 activity potentiates the anti-proliferative effects of 1,25(OH)2D. However, the extent to which endogenous Cyp24a1 activity within the mammary epithelium regulates local 1,25(OH)2D levels to modulate normal mammary gland development, with possible implications for cancer, has not been investigated. We generated a novel mouse model with conditional knockout of the Cyp24a1 gene specifically in the mammary epithelium (MMTV-Cre x Cyp24a1lox/lox). Ablation of Cyp24a1 activity in the mammary epithelium does not alter either gland or body weight at 4, 6 or 10 weeks of age. Preliminary analyses of mammary gland whole mounts indicate that virgin knockout mice form fewer terminal end buds compared to glands from wild-type littermates at 4 and 6 weeks of age (P<0.05). Moreover, the width of the ducts proximal to the central lymph node of knockout mice was less than that of wild-type mice at 4 and 10 weeks of age (P<0.05 and P<0.01, respectively). In addition, the number of secondary and tertiary branching points is reduced in mammary glands from knockout mice at 6 weeks of age (P<0.05 and P<0.01, respectively). In summary, our findings suggest that Cyp24a1 activity within epithelial cells plays a crucial role to modulate postnatal mammary gland development, presumably by limiting the local accumulation of 1,25(OH)2D.
Citation Format: Sheng L, Turner AG, Tarulli GA, Barratt K, Kremer R, Morris HA, Callen DF, Anderson PH. Conditional inactivation of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D-24-hydroxylase (Cyp24a1) in the mouse mammary epithelium alters mammary gland development [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2016 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-05-02.
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- L Sheng
- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL), Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Graw SL, Schalling M, Housman D, Callen DF, Klinger K, Landes G, Lerner T. Isolation and characterization of a candidate gene for autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease. Contrib Nephrol 2015; 97:110-7. [PMID: 1633711 DOI: 10.1159/000421649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- S L Graw
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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Voronova A, Gallagher D, Zander M, Cancino G, Bramall A, Krause MP, Abad C, Tekin M, Neilsen PM, Callen DF, Scherer SW, Keller GM, Kaplan DR, Walz K, Miller FD. Ankrd11 is a chromatin regulator involved in autism that is essential for neural development. Springerplus 2015; 4:L28. [PMID: 27386191 PMCID: PMC4796256 DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-4-s1-l28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
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Neilsen PM, Noll JE, Mattiske S, Bracken CP, Gregory PA, Schulz RB, Lim SP, Kumar R, Suetani RJ, Goodall GJ, Callen DF. Mutant p53 drives invasion in breast tumors through up-regulation of miR-155. Oncogene 2012; 32:2992-3000. [DOI: 10.1038/onc.2012.305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Verhey L, Branson H, Shroff M, Callen D, Sled J, Narayanan S, Bar-Or A, Sadovnick D, Arnold D, Marrie RA, Banwell B. MRI Features Distinguish Monophasic ADEM from MS: Findings from a Canadian Cohort of Children with Incident CNS Demyelination (S50.002). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.s50.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Noll JE, Jeffery J, Al-Ejeh F, Kumar R, Khanna KK, Callen DF, Neilsen PM. Mutant p53 drives multinucleation and invasion through a process that is suppressed by ANKRD11. Oncogene 2011; 31:2836-48. [PMID: 21986947 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2011.456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mutations of p53 in cancer can result in a gain of function associated with tumour progression and metastasis. We show that inducible expression of several p53 'hotspot' mutants promote a range of centrosome abnormalities, including centrosome amplification, increased centrosome size and loss of cohesion, which lead to mitotic defects and multinucleation. These mutant p53-expressing cells also show a change in morphology and enhanced invasive capabilities. Consequently, we sought for a means to specifically target the function of mutant p53 in cancer cells. This study has identified ANKRD11 as a key regulator of the oncogenic potential of mutant p53. Loss of ANKRD11 expression with p53 mutation defines breast cancer patients with poor prognosis. ANKRD11 alleviates the mitotic defects driven by mutant p53 and suppresses mutant p53-mediated mesenchymal-like transformation and invasion. Mechanistically, we show that ANKRD11 restores a native conformation to the mutant p53 protein and causes dissociation of the mutant p53-p63 complex. This represents the first evidence of an endogenous protein with the capacity to suppress the oncogenic properties of mutant p53.
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- J E Noll
- Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Kumar R, Iachini DN, Neilsen PM, Kaplan J, Michalakas J, Anderson PH, May BK, Morris HA, Callen DF. Systematic characterisation of the rat and human CYP24A1 promoter. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2010; 325:46-53. [PMID: 20450955 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2010.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2009] [Revised: 03/22/2010] [Accepted: 04/27/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The biologically active form of vitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25D) ligands VDR (vitamin D receptor) and binds to the vitamin D response element (VDRE) located within target genes to regulate their transcription. Previously we showed that 1,25D-mediated rat CYP24A1 induction via the two critical VDREs is dependent on a short stretch of nucleotides called vitamin D stimulating element (VSE), located approximately 30bp upstream of VDRE-1 in the rat CYP24A1 promoter. We have now undertaken systematic analysis of the human CYP24A1 and rat CYP24A1 promoters to determine if the VSE is present in the human promoter. Using electrophoretic mobility shift and dual-luciferase reporter assays, we show that the VSE is absent in the human CYP24A1 promoter. In addition, we show that 1,25D-mediated induction of human CYP24A1 is dependant upon a promoter region spanning nucleotides -470 to -392 of the human CYP24A1 promoter.
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- R Kumar
- Breast Cancer Genetics Group, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide and Hanson Institute, SA Pathology, Frome Road, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
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Holm R, Knopp S, Kumar R, Lee J, Nesland JM, Tropè C, Callen DF. Expression of ZNF652, a novel zinc finger protein, in vulvar carcinomas and its relation to prognosis. J Clin Pathol 2007; 61:59-63. [PMID: 17468294 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2006.045864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AIMS To determine the levels of expression of ZNF652 and its relevance to prognosis in vulvar squamous cell carcinomas. METHODS 22 cases of vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) and tumours from 217 patients with vulvar squamous cell carcinomas were investigated for expression of ZNF652 using immunostaining methods. The effect of ZNF652 ectopic expression was determined in the vulvar carcinoma cell line SW954 by western and cell-based assays. RESULTS High levels of ZNF652 nuclear expression were observed in 5 (100%) of VIN I, 6 (75%) of VIN II and 109 (50.2%) of the vulvar carcinomas, whereas low levels were seen in 2 (25%) VIN II, 9 (100%) of VIN III and 108 (49.8%) of the vulvar carcinomas. High levels of ZNF652 expression in the vulvar carcinomas were significantly correlated to high expression of EphA2. However, when correcting for multiple testing this correlation was lost. No association was identified between ZNF652 expression and p16, p21, p27, p53, cyclin A, D1, D3, E, EphrinA-1 and human papillomavirus. Variations in levels of ZNF652 were not related to prognosis. Low levels of ZNF652 protein were identified in the vulvar carcinoma cell line SW954. Furthermore, SW954 cells ectopically expressing ZNF652 showed reduced cell proliferation and the ability to form colonies on plastic. CONCLUSIONS ZNF652 protein expression is reduced in 25% of VIN II, 100% of VIN III and approximately 50% of the cases of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma, and may be an early event in the pathogenesis of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. Variations in the levels of ZNF652 were not related to patient's prognosis.
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- R Holm
- Department of Pathology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Oslo, Norway.
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Lower KM, Kumar R, Woollatt E, Villard L, Gecz J, Sutherland GR, Callen DF. Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome and t(X;5): are there upstream regulatory elements of the androgen receptor gene? Horm Res 2004; 62:208-14. [PMID: 15452386 DOI: 10.1159/000081064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2004] [Accepted: 08/12/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS Two half-brothers with similar malformed genitals, who both inherited a maternally derived t(X;5)(q13;p15) translocation, have a phenotype consistent with partial androgen sensitivity syndrome. The aim was to identify the gene disrupted by the X chromosome breakpoint. METHODS The breakpoint was localized using fluorescence in situ hybridization to metaphase spreads of the translocation. RESULTS The breakpoint on the X chromosome of the X;5 translocation was localized to a 30-kb region. This region does not contain any identified genes or transcripts. However, the breakpoint is approximately 134 kb from the 5' end of the androgen receptor (AR) gene. CONCLUSIONS Genetic defects of the AR gene are collectively called androgen insensitivity syndrome and include a range of phenotypes from normal males, often with associated sterility, to XY females. The phenotype seen in the males with the t(X;5) is consistent with this syndrome. The analysis of the chromosomal abnormality suggests that this translocation may remove one or more upstream regulatory elements of the AR gene that are essential for its normal expression and its role in typical external masculinization.
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- K M Lower
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Department of Genetic Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia
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Callen DF. Characterization of constitutive marker chromosomes in humans. Methods Mol Biol 2003; 33:439-57. [PMID: 7894590 DOI: 10.1385/0-89603-280-9:439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- D F Callen
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Australia
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Cavanaugh JA, Adams KE, Quak EJ, Bryce ME, O'Callaghan NJ, Rodgers HJ, Magarry GR, Butler WJ, Eaden JA, Roberts-Thomson IC, Pavli P, Wilson SR, Callen DF. CARD15/NOD2 risk alleles in the development of Crohn's disease in the Australian population. Ann Hum Genet 2003; 67:35-41. [PMID: 12556233 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00006.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have previously reported strong evidence for linkage between IBD1 and Crohn's disease (CD) in Australian Crohn's disease families. Three risk alleles for Crohn's disease, (Arg702Trp (C/T), Gly908Arg (G/C) and 980fs981 (-/C), were recently identified in the CARD15/NOD2 gene on chromosome 16, implicating this as the IBD1 locus. Using a novel diagnostic PCR-RFLP, we have examined the frequency of these alleles in 205 multiplex IBD families, 107 sporadic Crohn's disease cases and 409 normal individuals. We demonstrate that the three risk alleles are more frequent in Crohn's disease, than in controls, with allelic frequencies of 0.11, 0.02 and 0.07 respectively. Heterozygosity for individual variants conferred a three-fold increase in risk for Crohn's disease while substantially higher risks were associated with being homozygous or compound heterozygous. Despite a significantly lower population allele frequency for the frameshift mutation than reported by other groups, we see a similar contribution by this allele to the risk of developing Crohn's disease. While the three risk alleles influence susceptibility to Crohn's disease in Australia, we show that these alleles do not fully explain the linkage evidence and suggest that there are very likely additional IBD1 susceptibility alleles yet to be described in Australian CD at the NOD2 locus. We also show a second linkage peak in Australian CD that provides some support for a second disease susceptibility locus on chromosome 16.
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- J A Cavanaugh
- The Canberra Hospital, Gilmore Crescent, Garran, ACT 2606.
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Callen DF, Eyre H, McDonnell S, Schuffenhauer S, Bhalla K. A complex rearrangement involving simultaneous translocation and inversion is associated with a change in chromatin compaction. Chromosoma 2002; 111:170-5. [PMID: 12355206 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-002-0203-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2001] [Revised: 05/21/2002] [Accepted: 05/21/2002] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Detailed fluorescence in situ hybridisation analysis of a previously described translocation revealed it to be a more complex rearrangement consisting of both a translocation and a paracentric inversion with an apparent coincident breakpoint at 16p13.3, t(14;16)(p32;p13.3) inv16(p13.3p12.1). This unusual three-breakpoint rearrangement was not obvious from examination of G-banding. Such rearrangements may be undiagnosed in cytogenetic studies. The presence of an interstitial deletion of 16p was unlikely as the rearranged chromosome contained probes distributed along the short arm of chromosome 16. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation studies suggested that the inverted segment was smaller in size than that on the normal chromosome. Measurements of distances between probes on metaphase chromosomes confirmed that there was differential compaction of the inverted portion on 16p. The inverted region was significantly reduced in size by 21% compared with the same region on the normal chromosome 16. The size reduction across the region was non-uniform, with one region showing a 55% increase in compaction. The change in compaction was also associated with a change in the lateral position of a probe on the chromatids. The finding that a single chromosome breakpoint can change the compaction of chromatin over an extensive region has implications for models of the structure of metaphase chromosomes. Possible explanations are either a localized severe disruption of DNA packaging over relatively short distances (hundreds of kilobases) or a more generalized change that extends over many megabases. These results raise the important possibility that chromosome breaks may result in a more global change in DNA compaction across large segments of a chromosome.
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- D F Callen
- Department of Cytogenics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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A 15-year-old-boy and his mother, both carrying a cryptic deletion within 12p13.33, are described. The proband has a mild phenotype with moderate mental retardation and severe behavioural problems. The mother had some learning difficulties at school. Conventional GTL-banded high-resolution chromosome analysis showed normal karyotypes. Subsequent analysis by fluorescence in situ hybridization using a set of probes specific for the subtelomeric regions of all chromosomes, plus a series of probes at 12p13.33 extending from the 12p telomere, showed that both mother and son carry a 1.65 Mb terminal deletion in this region. There are 10 predicted genes within the deleted region. The unanticipated familial nature of the deletion emphasizes the value of family studies in all cases with subtelomeric abnormalities. It also demonstrates the difficulty in making a clinical diagnosis of individuals with this deletion. To the best of the present authors' knowledge, the proband and his mother are the first patients described with a submicroscopic deletion at 12p13.33.
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- E Baker
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
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Cai L, Lumsden A, Guenther UP, Neldner SA, Zäch S, Knoblauch H, Ramesar R, Hohl D, Callen DF, Neldner KH, Lindpaintner K, Richards RI, Struk B. A novel Q378X mutation exists in the transmembrane transporter protein ABCC6 and its pseudogene: implications for mutation analysis in pseudoxanthoma elasticum. J Mol Med (Berl) 2001; 79:536-46. [PMID: 11692167 DOI: 10.1007/s001090100275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2001] [Accepted: 07/26/2001] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is an inherited disorder of the elastic tissue with characteristic progressive calcification of elastic fibers in skin, eye, and the cardiovascular system. Recently mutations in the ABCC6 gene, encoding a transmembrane transporter protein, were identified as cause of the disease. Surprisingly, sequence and RFLP analysis for exon 9 with primers corresponding to flanking intronic sequence in diseased and haplotype negative members from all of our families and in a control population revealed either a homozygous or heterozygous state for the Q378X (1132C-->T) nonsense mutation in all individuals. With the publication of the genomic structure of the PXE locus we had identified the starting point of a large genomic segmental duplication within the locus in the cytogenetic interval defined by the Cy19 and Cy185 somatic cell hybrid breakpoints on chromosome 16p13.1. By means of somatic cell hybrid mapping we located this starting point telomeric to exon 10 of ABCC6. The duplication, however, does not include exon 10, but exons 1-9. These findings suggest that one or several copies of an ABCC6 pseudogene (psiABCC6) lie within this large segmental duplication. At least one copy contains exons 1-9 and maps to the chromosomal interval defined by the Cy163 and Cy11 breakpoints. Either this copy and/or an additional copy of psiABCC6 within Cy19-Cy183 carries the Q378X mutation that masks the correct identification of this nonsense mutation as being causative in pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Long-range PCR of exon 9 starting from sequence outside the genomic replication circumvents interference from the psiABCC6 DNA sequences and demonstrates that the Q378X mutation in the ABCC6 gene is associated with PXE in some families. These findings lead us to propose that gene conversion mechanisms from psiABCC6 to ABCC6 play a functional role in mutations causing PXE.
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- L Cai
- Endocrinology and Hypertension Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Kremmidiotis G, Gardner AE, Settasatian C, Savoia A, Sutherland GR, Callen DF. Molecular and functional analyses of the human and mouse genes encoding AFG3L1, a mitochondrial metalloprotease homologous to the human spastic paraplegia protein. Genomics 2001; 76:58-65. [PMID: 11549317 DOI: 10.1006/geno.2001.6560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The identification of SPG7 as the gene defective in a recessive form of spastic paraplegia has drawn attention to the yeast protein family of ATP-dependent zinc metalloproteases. The protein encoded by SPG7, paraplegin, shows high homology to members of this protein family. Recently, many mammalian ATP-dependent zinc metalloproteases have been identified and considered as possible candidates for defects in other forms of hereditary spastic paraplegia and possibly other neurodegenerative disorders. So far only a partial sequence has been available for one of those genes, ATPase family gene-3, yeast-like-1 (AFG3L1). We have carried out detailed molecular analysis of this gene and identified and characterized its mouse orthologue, Afg3l1. Our data indicate that AFG3L1 is transcribed into four mRNA isoforms that are not translated in humans. Afg3l1 encodes a protein with high homology to paraplegin and the other members of the ATP-dependent zinc metalloprotease family. Like the other ATP-dependent zinc metalloproteases, Afg3l1 localizes to the mitochondria.
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- G Kremmidiotis
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, South Australia, Australia.
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Ryall RG, Callen D, Cocciolone R, Duvnjak A, Esca R, Frantzis N, Gjerde EM, Haan EA, Hocking T, Sutherland G, Thomas DW, Webb F. Karyotypes found in the population declared at increased risk of Down syndrome following maternal serum screening. Prenat Diagn 2001; 21:553-7. [PMID: 11494290 DOI: 10.1002/pd.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Of the 65 328 pregnancies of South Australian mothers screened by the South Australian Maternal Serum Antenatal Screening (SAMSAS) Programme between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1997, 3431 (5.25%) were declared at increased risk of fetal Down syndrome. Fetal or neonatal karyotype was determined in 2737/3431 (79.8%) of these pregnancies, including 16 with early fetal loss. Interrogation of the database of the South Australian Neonatal Screening Service showed 643 live-born infants whose phenotype was not subsequently questioned among the 694 pregnancies whose karyotype was not determined. Of the remaining 51/3431 pregnancies, 19 ended in early fetal loss without karyotyping and no newborn screening or other records could be found for 32 cases. The 129 instances of abnormal karyotype found were Down syndrome (84), trisomy 18 (four), trisomy 13 (three), triploidy (two), female sex chromosome aneuploidy (six) and male sex chromosome aneuploidy (five), inherited balanced rearrangements (19), mosaic or de novo balanced abnormalities (four) and unbalanced karyotypes (two). In the pregnancies declared at increased risk of fetal Down syndrome, only the karyotype for Down syndrome occurred with a frequency greater than that expected for the general, pregnant population.
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- R G Ryall
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia.
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Bell R, Brice G, Child AH, Murday VA, Mansour S, Sandy CJ, Collin JR, Brady AF, Callen DF, Burnand K, Mortimer P, Jeffery S. Analysis of lymphoedema-distichiasis families for FOXC2 mutations reveals small insertions and deletions throughout the gene. Hum Genet 2001; 108:546-51. [PMID: 11499682 DOI: 10.1007/s004390100528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Lymphoedema-distichiasis (LD) is a dominantly inherited form of primary lymphoedema with onset of lower limb swelling at puberty or later. There is variable penetrance of this disorder, but the most consistently inherited feature is distichiasis, viz. fine hairs arising inappropriately from the meibomian glands. We established linkage of this disorder to 16q24.3 and the gene has recently been identified as the forkhead transcription factor FOXC2. We report the mutational analysis of 14 families with LD. All but one of these pedigrees have small insertions or deletions in the gene, which seem likely to produce haploinsufficiency. The mutation sites are scattered throughout the gene. There is one family with a mis-sense mutation in the forkhead domain of the protein. This base alteration is not a common polymorphism, is co-inherited with the disease and produces a non-conservative amino acid change.
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- R Bell
- Medical Genetics Unit, St George's Medical School, London, England
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Cavalier L, BenHamida C, Amouri R, Belal S, Bomont P, Lagarde N, Gressin L, Callen D, Demir E, Topaloglu H, Landrieu P, Ioos C, BenHamida M, Koenig M, Hentati F. Giant Axonal Neuropathy Locus Refinement To A < 590 KB Critical Interval. J Peripher Nerv Syst 2001. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8027.2001.01008-2.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- L Cavalier
- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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- European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 527–534, 2000. Reprinted with permission from Nature Publishing Group
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Cleton-Jansen AM, Callen DF, Seshadri R, Goldup S, Mccallum B, Crawford J, Powell JA, Settasatian C, van Beerendonk H, Moerland EW, Smit VT, Harris WH, Millis R, Morgan NV, Barnes D, Mathew CG, Cornelisse CJ. Loss of heterozygosity mapping at chromosome arm 16q in 712 breast tumors reveals factors that influence delineation of candidate regions. Cancer Res 2001; 61:1171-7. [PMID: 11221848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the long arm of chromosome 16 occurs in at least half of all breast tumors and is considered to target one or more tumor suppressor genes. Despite extensive studies by us and by others, a clear consensus of the boundaries of the smallest region of overlap (SRO) could not be identified. To find more solid evidence for SROs, we tested a large series of 712 breast tumors for LOH at 16q using a dense map of polymorphic markers. Strict criteria for LOH and retention were applied, and results that did not meet these criteria were excluded from the analysis. We compared LOH results obtained from samples with different DNA isolation methods, ie., from microdissected tissue versus total tissue blocks. In the latter group, 16% of the cases were excluded because of noninterpretable LOH results. The selection of polymorphic markers is clearly influencing the LOH pattern because a chromosomal region seems more frequently involved in LOH when many markers from this region are used. The LOH detection method, i.e., radioactive versus fluorescence detection, has no marked effect on the results. Increasing the threshold window for retention of heterozygosity resulted in significantly more cases with complex LOH, i.e., several alternating regions of loss and retention, than seen in tumors with a small window for retention. Tumors with complex LOH do not provide evidence for clear-cut SROs that are repeatedly found in other samples. On disregarding these complex cases, we could identify three different SROs, two at band 16q24.3 and one at 16q22.1. In all three tumor series, we found cases with single LOH regions that designated the distal region at 16q24.3 and the region at 16q22.1. Comparing histological data on these tumors did not result in the identification of a particular subtype with LOH at 16q or a specific region involved in LOH. Only the rare mucinous tumors had no 16q LOH at all. Furthermore, a positive estrogen content is prevalent in tumors with 16q LOH, but not in tumors with LOH at 16q24.3 only.
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- A M Cleton-Jansen
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
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Bell R, Brice G, Child AH, Murday VA, Mansour S, Sandy CJ, Collin JR, Mortimer P, Callen DF, Burnand K. Reduction of the genetic interval for lyphoedema-distichiasis to below 2 Mb. J Med Genet 2000; 37:725. [PMID: 11182939 PMCID: PMC1734682 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.37.9.725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Nomiyama H, Imai T, Kusuda J, Miura R, Callen DF, Yoshie O. Human chemokines fractalkine (SCYD1), MDC (SCYA22) and TARC (SCYA17) are clustered on chromosome 16q13. Cytogenet Cell Genet 2000; 81:10-1. [PMID: 9691168 DOI: 10.1159/000015000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- H Nomiyama
- Department of Biochemistry, Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto, (Japan).
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Cavalier L, BenHamida C, Amouri R, Belal S, Bomont P, Lagarde N, Gressin L, Callen D, Demir E, Topaloglu H, Landrieu P, Ioos C, Hamida MB, Koenig M, Hentati F. Giant axonal neuropathy locus refinement to a < 590 kb critical interval. Eur J Hum Genet 2000; 8:527-34. [PMID: 10909853 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder, characterised clinically by the development of chronic distal polyneuropathy during childhood, mental retardation, kinky or curly hair, skeletal abnormalities and, ultrastructurally, by axons in the central and peripheral nervous systems distended by masses of tightly woven neurofilaments. We recently localised the GAN locus in 16q24.1 to a 5-cM interval between the D16S507 and D16S511 markers by homozygosity mapping in three consanguineous Tunisian families. We have now established a contig-based physical map of the region comprising YACs and BACs where we have placed four genes, ten ESTs, three STSs and two additional microsatellite markers, and where we have identified six new SSCP polymorphisms and six new microsatellite markers. Using these markers, we have refined the position of our previous flanking recombinants. We also identified a shared haplotype between two Tunisian families and a small region of homozygosity in a Turkish family with distant consanguinity, both suggesting the occurrence of historic recombinations and supporting the conclusions based on the phase-known recombinations. Taken together, these results allow us to establish a transcription map of the region, and to narrow down the GAN position to a < 590 kb critical interval, an important step toward the identification of the defective gene.
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- L Cavalier
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, CU de Strasbourg, France
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A novel gene has been characterized, designated C16orf5, with an unusually high content of proline residues (40% over 104 residues) at the N-terminus of the protein. The C-terminus of the protein is also cysteine rich with 14 cysteine residues present. Analysis using Northern and dot blots showed that the highest expression of this gene is in the brain. The gene was located on chromosome 16 at band p13.3 by FISH to metaphase chromosomes. Southern blot analysis with a human-rodent somatic cell hybrid panel showed a location between the somatic hybrid breakpoints 23HA and CY196. This gene comprises at least four exons and an open reading frame of 786 bp encoding a predicted protein of 261 amino acids. Analysis of this protein using PSORTII predicted a nuclear localization.
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- K Bhalla
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
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Callen DF, Eyre H, Fang YY, Guan XY, Veleba A, Martin NJ, McGill J, Haan EA. Origins of accessory small ring marker chromosomes derived from chromosome 1. J Med Genet 1999; 36:847-53. [PMID: 10544230 PMCID: PMC1734252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Three patients with accessory small ring chromosomes derived from chromosome 1 are presented together with additional clinical details and cytogenetic analyses of a previously reported patient. Cytogenetic analysis was undertaken by FISH using a reverse painting probe generated from one of the patients by microdissection of the r(1) chromosome and with a BAC923C6 which maps to 1p12. Results indicated that patients with r(1) chromosomes consisting of 1q12 heterochromatin and short arm pericentric euchromatin which extends to at least the BAC923C6 were associated with a normal or mild phenotype. Patients with abnormal phenotypes possessed two types of rings. One patient had evidence for contiguous pericentric short arm euchromatin which extended from the centromere to beyond the BAC923C6. Two patients showed molecular cytogenetic results which were compatible with non-contiguous chromosome 1 euchromatin. The diversity of origin of r(1)s will hamper attempts to define phenotype/genotype relationships.
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- D F Callen
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, 5006 SA, Australia
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Savino M, d'Apolito M, Centra M, van Beerendonk HM, Cleton-Jansen AM, Whitmore SA, Crawford J, Callen DF, Zelante L, Savoia A. Characterization of copine VII, a new member of the copine family, and its exclusion as a candidate in sporadic breast cancers with loss of heterozygosity at 16q24.3. Genomics 1999; 61:219-26. [PMID: 10534407 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In a search for candidate tumor suppressor genes within a 650-kb common region of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 16q24.3 in breast cancer tissues, a 2.6-kb cDNA, named copine VII (CPNE7), was characterized. The gene is 2654 bp and codes for a 633-residue protein with high homology to the other members of the copine family, such as copine I, copine III, and N-copine. The predicted amino acid sequence contains two copies of a C2 domain in the N-terminus. Since these domains have been found in several membrane-binding proteins involved in different intracellular processes, copine VII was viewed as a potential tumor suppressor gene. Mutation analysis was carried out by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of 18 breast tumor tissue samples with ascertained LOH on chromosome 16q24.3. Since only two polymorphisms were identified, no evidence was found to indicate that copine VII is the tumor suppressor gene at 16q24.3 involved in breast cancer.
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- M Savino
- Servizio di Genetica Medica, IRCCS Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, I-71013, Italy
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Settasatian C, Whitmore SA, Crawford J, Bilton RL, Cleton-Jansen AM, Sutherland GR, Callen DF. Genomic structure and expression analysis of the spastic paraplegia gene, SPG7. Hum Genet 1999; 105:139-44. [PMID: 10480368 DOI: 10.1007/s004399900087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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SPG7 is a newly identified gene involved in an autosomal recessive form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders. This gene encodes a protein characterized as a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial metalloprotease. The present report describes the genomic structure of the SPG7 gene. It is organized into 17 exons ranging from 78 to 242 bp and spans approximately 52 kb within three overlapping cosmids. The exon/intron boundaries and all splice junctions are consistent with the published consensus sequences for donor and acceptor sites. The provided genomic structure of SPG7 should facilitate the screening for mutations in this gene in patients with HSP and other related mitochondrial disease syndromes. SPG7 has been mapped to chromosome 16q24.3, a region of frequent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) seen in sporadic breast and prostate cancer. We have performed single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of ten exons of this gene in a number of sporadic breast cancer samples showing LOH at 16q24.3. No mutations were detected; only single nucleotide polymorphisms were observed in exon 11, intron 7, intron 10 and intron 12. An expression analysis study has revealed the differential expression of SPG7 mRNA in various tissues and at different developmental stages.
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- C Settasatian
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Cleton-Jansen AM, Moerland EW, Pronk JC, van Berkel CG, Apostolou S, Crawford J, Savoia A, Auerbach AD, Mathew CG, Callen DF, Cornelisse CJ. Mutation analysis of the Fanconi anaemia A gene in breast tumours with loss of heterozygosity at 16q24.3. Br J Cancer 1999; 79:1049-52. [PMID: 10098735 PMCID: PMC2362253 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The recently identified Fanconi anaemia A (FAA) gene is located on chromosomal band 16q24.3 within a region that has been frequently reported to show loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in breast cancer. FAA mutation analysis of 19 breast tumours with specific LOH at 16q24.3 was performed. Single-stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis on cDNA and genomic DNA, and Southern blotting failed to identify any tumour-specific mutations. Five polymorphisms were identified, but frequencies of occurrence did not deviate from those in a normal control population. Therefore, the FAA gene is not the gene targeted by LOH at 16q24.3 in breast cancer. Another tumour suppressor gene in this chromosomal region remains to be identified.
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- A M Cleton-Jansen
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
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Kremmidiotis G, Lensink IL, Bilton RL, Woollatt E, Chataway TK, Sutherland GR, Callen DF. The Batten disease gene product (CLN3p) is a Golgi integral membrane protein. Hum Mol Genet 1999; 8:523-31. [PMID: 9949212 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.3.523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Batten disease (juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis) is a recessive neurodegenerative disorder of childhood. The gene, CLN3, was recently identified and found to encode a novel 438 amino acid protein of unknown function. In order to gain insight into the function of the Batten disease protein (CLN3p), we investigated its subcellular localization. Protein constructs incorporating CLN3p fused to the green fluorescence protein or an eight amino acid peptide tag were transiently expressed in fibroblasts, HeLa and COS-7 cells. A juxtanuclear, asymmetric localization pattern was observed that correlated with the Golgi apparatus in all three cell types. However, a proportion of transiently transfected cells exhibited a punctate vesicular distribution throughout the cytoplasm in addition to or without the Golgi localization. In order to account for localization patterns arising from intracellular protein transport disruption due to exaggerated overexpression in transiently transfected cells, we isolated a stably transfected cell line expressing only one copy of the CLN3 -GFP DNA construct. Fluorescence and biochemical analyses using this cell line demonstrated that CLN3p is an integral membrane protein that localizes primarily in the Golgi apparatus. The functional implications of this finding are discussed.
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- G Kremmidiotis
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, 72 King William Road, Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia.
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Crawford J, Ianzano L, Savino M, Whitmore S, Cleton-Jansen AM, Settasatian C, d'apolito M, Seshadri R, Pronk JC, Auerbach AD, Verlander PC, Mathew CG, Tipping AJ, Doggett NA, Zelante L, Callen DF, Savoia A. The PISSLRE gene: structure, exon skipping, and exclusion as tumor suppressor in breast cancer. Genomics 1999; 56:90-7. [PMID: 10036189 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In sporadic breast cancer, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) frequently occurs in three discrete regions of the long arm of chromosome 16q, the most telomeric of which is located at 16q24.3. Among the genes mapped to this region, PISSLRE is a plausible candidate tumor suppressor gene. It codes for a putative cyclin-dependent kinase that, as with other members of this family, is likely to be involved in regulating the cell cycle and therefore may have a role in oncogenesis. We characterized the genomic structure of PISSLRE and found that the splicing of this gene is complex. A variety of different transcripts were identified, including those due to cryptic splice sites, exon skipping, insertion of intronic sequences, and exon scrambling. The last phenomenon was observed in a rare PISSLRE transcript in which exons are joined at a nonconsensus splice site in an order different from that predicted by the genomic sequence. To screen the PISSLRE gene in breast tumors with ascertained LOH at 16q24.3, we have analyzed each exon by single-strand conformational polymorphism. No variation was found in the coding sequence, leading us to conclude that another tumor suppressor must be targeted by LOH in sporadic breast cancer.
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- J Crawford
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia
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Whitmore SA, Settasatian C, Crawford J, Lower KM, McCallum B, Seshadri R, Cornelisse CJ, Moerland EW, Cleton-Jansen AM, Tipping AJ, Mathew CG, Savnio M, Savoia A, Verlander P, Auerbach AD, Van Berkel C, Pronk JC, Doggett NA, Callen DF. Characterization and screening for mutations of the growth arrest-specific 11 (GAS11) and C16orf3 genes at 16q24.3 in breast cancer. Genomics 1998; 52:325-31. [PMID: 9790751 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Loss of heterozygosity involving the long arm of chromosome 16 is a frequent event seen in a number of human carcinomas, including breast, prostate, hepatocellular, and ovarian cancers. A region found to be commonly deleted in breast and prostate carcinomas is located at 16q24.3, which suggests the presence of a tumor suppressor gene that may be altered in these two malignancies. A detailed physical and transcription map of this region that includes the loci defining the smallest region of deletion has been constructed. This report describes the characterization of a transcript located in this region, the growth arrest-specific 11 (GAS11) gene, which was viewed as a potential tumor suppressor gene due to the expression of its mouse homolog specifically during growth arrest. The gene consists of 11 exons spanning approximately 25 kb. Northern blot analysis identified two ubiquitously expressed mRNAs of 3.4 and 1.8 kb produced by the use of alternative polyadenylation sites. Another gene, C16orf3 (chromosome 16 open reading frame 3), was found to lie within intron 2 of GAS11. This gene appears intronless, is transcribed in the orientation opposite to that of GAS11, and is expressed at low levels. These genes were examined for mutations in breast tumor DNA, and both were excluded as tumor suppressor genes involved in breast cancer.
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- S A Whitmore
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia.
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Kuss BJ, O'Neill GM, Eyre H, Doggett NA, Callen DF, Davey RA. ARA, a novel ABC transporter, is located at 16p13.1, is deleted in inv(16) leukemias, and is shown to be expressed in primitive hematopoietic precursors. Genomics 1998; 51:455-8. [PMID: 9721217 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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ATP-binding cassette (ABC), ATP-dependent transporters are a large superfamily of proteins that include the multidrug resistance proteins, P-glycoprotein and MRP (multidrug resistance protein). The ARA (anthracycline resistance-associated) gene that codes for a putative member of the ABC transporters has recently been cloned and shown to have high sequence homology to the gene for MRP. We have previously shown MRP to be deleted in a subset of inv(16) leukemic patients. The deletion of MRP was associated with an improved patient survival compared with inv(16) patients who did not have such a deletion. In this study, the ARA gene is mapped to 16p13.1, in the same physical interval as the inv(16) short-arm breakpoint. It is shown to be situated proximal to both MYH11, the gene involved in the primary breakpoint on the short arm of the inv(16), and MRP. A YAC clone has been isolated containing both MRP and ARA. FISH analysis of metaphase chromosomes from inv(16) patients has established the gene order as telomere-MYH11-MRP-ARA-centromere and demonstrated that both ARA and MRP are deleted in a subgroup of the inv(16) leukemias. ARA and MRP are both shown to be expressed in normal hematopoietic precursors including CD34(+) cells. The mapping of ARA to this region and its homology to MRP raises questions about its potential role in the biology of the inv(16) leukemias.
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- B J Kuss
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia.
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Cavanaugh JA, Callen DF, Wilson SR, Stanford PM, Sraml ME, Gorska M, Crawford J, Whitmore SA, Shlegel C, Foote S, Kohonen-Corish M, Pavli P. Analysis of Australian Crohn's disease pedigrees refines the localization for susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease on chromosome 16. Ann Hum Genet 1998; 62:291-8. [PMID: 9924607 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-1809.1998.6240291.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A number of localizations for the putative susceptibility gene(s) have been identified for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In a genome wide scan, Hugot et al. (1996) identified a region on chromosome 16 which appeared to be responsible for the inheritance of inflammatory bowel disease in a small proportion of families. Subsequent work has suggested that this localization is important for susceptibility to Crohn's disease rather than ulcerative colitis (Ohmen et al. 1996; Parkes et al. 1996). We investigated the contribution of this localization to the inheritance of inflammatory bowel disease in 54 multiplex Australian families, and confirmed its importance in a significant proportion of Crohn's disease families; we further refined the localization to a region near to D16S409, obtaining a maximum LOD score of 6.3 between D16S409 and D16S753.
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- J A Cavanaugh
- Gastroenterology Unit, Canberra Hospital, Garran, Australia.
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Whitmore SA, Crawford J, Apostolou S, Eyre H, Baker E, Lower KM, Settasatian C, Goldup S, Seshadri R, Gibson RA, Mathew CG, Cleton-Jansen AM, Savoia A, Pronk JC, Auerbach AD, Doggett NA, Sutherland GR, Callen DF. Construction of a high-resolution physical and transcription map of chromosome 16q24.3: a region of frequent loss of heterozygosity in sporadic breast cancer. Genomics 1998; 50:1-8. [PMID: 9628816 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A breast cancer tumor suppressor gene has been localized to chromosome 16q24.3 by loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies of breast tumor DNA. To identify candidate genes for this suppressor function, we have constructed a detailed physical map extending approximately 940 kb from the telomere of the long arm of chromosome 16 that encompasses the minimum LOH interval. This contig consists of a minimum overlapping set of 35 cosmids and a single PAC clone that were aligned by restriction enzyme site mapping. Cosmids were initially identified by screening filters with markers localized to the region by physical mapping using mouse/human somatic cell hybrids, and subsequently cosmid ends were used to complete the contig. A total of seven known genes, including PRSM1, PISSLRE, and the recently cloned Fanconi anemia A (FAA) gene, and potential transcripts from exon-trapping experiments have been located to this contig. A minimum of 14 new transcripts have been identified based on homology of trapped exons with database sequences. This contig and expressed sequence map will form the basis for the identification of the breast cancer tumor suppressor gene in this region.
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- S A Whitmore
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia.
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Kremmidiotis G, Baker E, Crawford J, Eyre HJ, Nahmias J, Callen DF. Localization of human cadherin genes to chromosome regions exhibiting cancer-related loss of heterozygosity. Genomics 1998; 49:467-71. [PMID: 9615235 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This report presents the chromosomal localization of cadherin genes. Cadherins are cellular adhesion molecules. Since disturbance of intracellular adhesion is important for invasion and metastasis of tumor cells, cadherins are considered prime candidates for tumor suppressor genes. A variety of solid tumors show loss of heterozygosity of the long arm of chromosome 16, which is indicative of the potential location of tumor suppressor genes. Refined and new localizations of six cadherin genes (CDH3, 5, 8, 11, 13, and 15) to the long arm of chromosome 16 are shown. CDH15 was localized to 16q24.3, in a region that exhibits loss of heterozygosity in a number of sporadic breast cancer tumors. Previous localization of CDH13 (H-cadherin) to 16q24 suggested this gene as a tumor suppressor candidate in the 16q24.3 loss of heterozygosity region; however, refined mapping presented in this report localizes CDH13 proximal to this region. A human EST homologous to the chicken cadherin-7 was partially sequenced and found to represent a new human cadherin. This cadherin mapped to chromosome 18q22-q23, a region that exhibits loss of heterozygosity in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. CDH16 was localized to 8q22.1, a region exhibiting loss of heterozygosity in adult acute myeloid leukemia.
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- Breast Neoplasms/genetics
- Cadherins/genetics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Female
- Gene Deletion
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Male
- Neoplasms/genetics
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- G Kremmidiotis
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Town M, Jean G, Cherqui S, Attard M, Forestier L, Whitmore SA, Callen DF, Gribouval O, Broyer M, Bates GP, van't Hoff W, Antignac C. A novel gene encoding an integral membrane protein is mutated in nephropathic cystinosis. Nat Genet 1998; 18:319-24. [PMID: 9537412 DOI: 10.1038/ng0498-319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 397] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Nephropathic cystinosis, an autosomal recessive disorder resulting from defective lysosomal transport of cystine, is the most common inherited cause of renal Fanconi syndrome. The cystinosis gene has been mapped to chromosome 17p13. We found that the locus D17S829 was homozygously deleted in 23 out of 70 patients, and identified a novel gene, CTNS, which mapped to the deletion interval. CTNS encodes an integral membrane protein, cystinosin, with features of a lysosomal membrane protein. Eleven different mutations, all predicted to cause loss of function of the protein, were found to segregate with the disorder.
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- M Town
- Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
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Kalsi G, Whiting P, Bourdelles BL, Callen D, Barnard EA, Gurling H. Localization of the human NMDAR2D receptor subunit gene (GRIN2D) to 19q13.1-qter, the NMDAR2A subunit gene to 16p13.2 (GRIN2A), and the NMDAR2C subunit gene (GRIN2C) to 17q24-q25 using somatic cell hybrid and radiation hybrid mapping panels. Genomics 1998; 47:423-5. [PMID: 9480759 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.5132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- G Kalsi
- Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, UCL Medical School, Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1P 6DB, United Kingdom
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Schollen E, Pardon E, Heykants L, Renard J, Doggett NA, Callen DF, Cassiman JJ, Matthijs G. Comparative analysis of the phosphomannomutase genes PMM1, PMM2 and PMM2psi: the sequence variation in the processed pseudogene is a reflection of the mutations found in the functional gene. Hum Mol Genet 1998; 7:157-64. [PMID: 9425221 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.2.157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The search for the carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type I (CDG1) gene has revealed the existence of a family of phosphomannomutase (PMM) genes in humans. Two expressed PMM genes, PMM1 and PMM2 , are located on chromosome bands 22q13 and 16p13, respectively, and a processed pseudogene PMM2 psi is located on chromosome 18p. Mutations in PMM2 are the cause of CDG type IA whereas no disorder has been associated with defects in PMM1 as yet. Here, we describe the genomic organization of these paralogous genes. There is a 65% identity of the coding sequence, and all intron/exon boundaries have been conserved. The processed pseudogene is more closely related to PMM2 . Remarkably, several base substitutions in PMM2 that are associated with disease are also present at the corresponding positions in the pseudogene. Thus, mutations that occur at a slow rate in the active gene in the population have also accumulated in the pseudogene.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22/genetics
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation/enzymology
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation/genetics
- Cosmids
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases)/genetics
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Pseudogenes
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- E Schollen
- Center for Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O&N 6, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Kees UR, Spagnolo D, Hallam LA, Ford J, Ranford PR, Baker DL, Callen DF, Biegel JA. A new pineoblastoma cell line, PER-480, with der(10)t(10;17), der(16)t(1;16), and enhanced MYC expression in the absence of gene amplification. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1998; 100:159-64. [PMID: 9428362 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-4608(97)00030-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Pineoblastoma is a rare, but highly malignant tumor of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and is classified as a central primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). Despite notable recent advances in understanding the molecular genetic basis of malignancies, the pathogenesis of PNETs remains enigmatic. There is scant information on the cytogenetics of PNETs arising in the pineal gland and the only three reported cases did not show any common aberrations. Here we report the establishment and characterization of a new pineoblastoma cell line, PER-480. The biopsy material and the cell line were characterized using light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemical analyses. The cell line was examined for expression of cell surface markers using a panel of monoclonal antibodies and by cytogenetic analysis. MYC family genes were studied at the DNA, RNA, and protein level. Cell line PER-480 showed neuronal differentiation and the karyotype demonstrated two abnormalities, a der(10)t(10;17) and a der(16)t(1;16). An intriguing finding is that all three pineoblastoma cell lines established in our laboratory, PER-452, PER-453, and PER-480, showed enhanced expression but not amplification of a member of the MYC family of proto-oncogenes. Cell line PER-480 reported here will be useful for the further investigation of the molecular genetic basis of central PNETs.
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- U R Kees
- Division of Children's Leukaemia and Cancer Research, TVWT Institute for Child Health Research, Perth, Australia
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Fang YY, Bain S, Haan EA, Eyre HJ, MacDonald M, Wright TJ, Altherr MR, Riess O, Sutherland G, Callen DF. High resolution characterization of an interstitial deletion of less than 1.9 Mb at 4p16.3 associated with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. Am J Med Genet 1997; 71:453-7. [PMID: 9286454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) caused by 4p16.3 deletions comprises growth and mental retardation, distinct facial appearance and seizures. This study characterized a subtle interstitial deletion of 4p16.3 in a girl with mild retardation and possessing facial traits characteristic of WHS. The patient had generalized seizures in conjunction with fever at 3 and 5 years of age. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a series of markers in the 4p16.3 region showed that the interstitial deletion in this patient was between the probes D4S96 and D4S182, enabling the size of the deletion to be estimated as less than 1.9 Mb. This is the smallest interstitial deletion of 4p16.3 which has been reported. The patient contributes to a refinement of the phenotypic map of the WHS region in 4p16.3. The critical region for the characteristic facial changes of WHS, failure to thrive and developmental delay is now localized to a region of less than 700 kb. The mental retardation of this patient was mild suggesting that small interstitial deletion may have less severe phenotypic consequences.
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- Y Y Fang
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia
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Werner W, Kraft S, Callen DF, Bartsch O, Hinkel GK. A small deletion of 16q23.1-->16q24.2 [del(16)(q23.1q24.2).ish del(16)(q23.1q24.2)(D16S395+, D16S348-, P5432+)] in a boy with iris coloboma and minor anomalies. Am J Med Genet 1997; 70:371-6. [PMID: 9182777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We report on a 5-year-old boy with bilateral coloboma of iris, short stature, moderate developmental delay, and a few minor craniofacial anomalies. High-resolution GTG banding showed a small distal deletion of one chromosome 16 [del(16)(q23.1q24.2)]. Molecular refinement of the deletion breakpoints yielded that the proximal breakpoint at 16q23.1 is located between loci D16S395 (present) and D16S348 (absent). Comparison with previously published cases of deletion 16q demonstrated that the clinical phenotype is not a recognizable 16q- syndrome and different from the two cases of deletions of 16(q22.1 to q24.1) described by Callen et al. [1993]. Evidently, deletion 16(q23.1q24.2) has a milder phenotypic effect than other interstitial and distal 16q deletions.
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- W Werner
- Institut für Klinische Genetik, Universitätsklinikum C.G. Carus, TU Dresden, Germany
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Sood R, Blake T, Aksentijevich I, Wood G, Chen X, Gardner D, Shelton DA, Mangelsdorf M, Orsborn A, Pras E, Balow JE, Centola M, Deng Z, Zaks N, Chen X, Richards N, Fischel-Ghodsian N, Rotter JI, Pras M, Shohat M, Deaven LL, Gumucio DL, Callen DF, Richards RI, Doggett NA. Construction of a 1-Mb restriction-mapped cosmid contig containing the candidate region for the familial Mediterranean fever locus (MEFV) on chromosome 16p 13.3. Genomics 1997; 42:83-95. [PMID: 9177779 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In this paper we describe the assembly and restriction map of a 1.05-Mb cosmid contig spanning the candidate region for familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), a recessively inherited disorder of inflammation localized to 16p13.3. Using a combination of cosmid walking and screening for P1, PAC, BAC, and YAC clones, we have generated a contig of genomic clones spanning approximately 1050 kb that contains the FMF critical region. The map consists of 179 cosmid, 15 P1, 10 PAC, 3 BAC, and 17 YAC clones, anchored by 27 STS markers. Eight additional STSs have been developed from the approximately 700 kb immediately centromeric to this genomic region. Five of the 35 STSs are microsatellites that have not been previously reported. NotI and EcoRI mapping of the overlapping cosmids, hybridization of restriction fragments from cosmids to one another, and STS analyses have been used to validate the assembly of the contig. Our contig totally subsumes the 250-kb interval recently reported, by founder haplotype analysis, to contain the FMF gene. Thus, our high-resolution clone map provides an ideal resource for transcriptional mapping toward the eventual identification of this disease gene.
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- R Sood
- Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Muscoloskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Health, Beinesoa, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Ianzano L, D'Apolito M, Centra M, Savino M, Levran O, Auerbach AD, Cleton-Jansen AM, Doggett NA, Pronk JC, Tipping AJ, Gibson RA, Mathew CG, Whitmore SA, Apostolou S, Callen DF, Zelante L, Savoia A. The genomic organization of the Fanconi anemia group A (FAA) gene. Genomics 1997; 41:309-14. [PMID: 9169126 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogenous disease involving at least five genes on the basis of complementation analysis (FAA to FAE). The FAA gene has been recently isolated by two independent approaches, positional and functional cloning. In the present study we describe the genomic structure of the FAA gene. The gene contains 43 exons spanning approximately 80 kb as determined by the alignment of four cosmids and the fine localization of the first and the last exons in restriction fragments of these clones. Exons range from 34 to 188 bp. All but three of the splice sites were consistent with the ag-gt rule. We also describe three alternative splicing events in cDNA clones that result in the loss of exon 37, a 23-bp deletion at the 5' end of exon 41, and a GCAG insertion at the 3' portion also in exon 41. Sequence analysis of the 5' region upstream of the putative transcription start site showed no obvious TATA and CAAT boxes, but did show a GC-rich region, typical of housekeeping genes. Knowledge of the structure of the FAA gene will provide an invaluable resource for the discovery of mutations in the gene that accounts for about 60-66% of FA patients.
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- L Ianzano
- Servizio di Genetica Medica, IRCCS-Ospedale CSS, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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Alu-PRINS was successful in providing positive identification of euchromatin when oligoprimers were used at either extremity of the consensus Alu sequence. This technique was sensitive, as shown by the ability to detect small regions of euchromatin translocated to the short arm of an acrocentric chromosome. Since the Alu-PRINS technique is rapid and relatively simple, it will be useful in the diagnostic cytogenetics laboratory for the assessment of aberrant short arms of acrocentric satellites. This technique was also useful in defining the structure of small accessory marker chromosomes.
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- D F Callen
- Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia.
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Mitchison HM, Munroe PB, O'Rawe AM, Taschner PE, de Vos N, Kremmidiotis G, Lensink I, Munk AC, D'Arigo KL, Anderson JW, Lerner TJ, Moyzis RK, Callen DF, Breuning MH, Doggett NA, Gardiner RM, Mole SE. Genomic structure and complete nucleotide sequence of the Batten disease gene, CLN3. Genomics 1997; 40:346-50. [PMID: 9119403 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.4576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We recently cloned a cDNA for CLN3, the gene for juvenile-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis or Batten disease. To resolve the genomic organization we used a cosmid clone containing CLN3 to sequence the entire gene in addition to 1.1 kb 5' of the start of the published CLN3 cDNA and 0.3 kb 3' to the polyadenylation site. CLN3 is organized into at least 15 exons spanning 15 kb and ranging from 47 to 356 bp. The 14 introns vary from 80 to 4227 bp, and all exon/intron junction sequences conform to the GT/AG rule. Numerous repetitive Alu elements are present within the introns and 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions. The 5' region of the CLN3 gene contains several potential transcription regulatory elements but no consensus TATA-1 box was identified. CLN3 is homologous to 27 deposited human ESTs, and sequence comparisons suggest alternative splicing of the gene and the existence of transcribed sequences upstream to the start of the published CLN3 cDNA.
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- H M Mitchison
- Department of Paediatrics, University College London Medical School, Rayne Institute, United Kingdom
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- H Nomiyama
- Department of Biochemistry, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
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Mitchison HM, Taschner PE, Kremmidiotis G, Callen DF, Doggett NA, Lerner TJ, Janes RB, Wallace BA, Munroe PB, O'Rawe AM, Gardiner RM, Mole SE. Structure of the CLN3 gene and predicted structure, location and function of CLN3 protein. Neuropediatrics 1997; 28:12-4. [PMID: 9151311 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The genomic sequence of the human CLN3 gene, which is defective in juvenile onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease) is being delineated using a variety of methods. A Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene, YHC3 (for Yeast Homologue to human CLN3), which is highly similar to the human disease gene, has been identified by computer-aided homology searching. Topology predictions indicate the CLN3 protein contains six transmembrane segments. Most similarity between the human and yeast proteins lies either in the transmembrane segments or along one face of the predicted protein structure.
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- H M Mitchison
- Department of Paediatrics, University College London Medical School, Rayne Institute, UK
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Foe JR, Rooimans MA, Bosnoyan-Collins L, Alon N, Wijker M, Parker L, Lightfoot J, Carreau M, Callen DF, Savoia A, Cheng NC, van Berkel CG, Strunk MH, Gille JJ, Pals G, Kruyt FA, Pronk JC, Arwert F, Buchwald M, Joenje H. Expression cloning of a cDNA for the major Fanconi anaemia gene, FAA. Nat Genet 1996; 14:488. [PMID: 8944034 DOI: 10.1038/ng1296-488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Lo Ten Foe JR, Rooimans MA, Bosnoyan-Collins L, Alon N, Wijker M, Parker L, Lightfoot J, Carreau M, Callen DF, Savoia A, Cheng NC, van Berkel CG, Strunk MH, Gille JJ, Pals G, Kruyt FA, Pronk JC, Arwert F, Buchwald M, Joenje H. Expression cloning of a cDNA for the major Fanconi anaemia gene, FAA. Nat Genet 1996; 14:320-3. [PMID: 8896563 DOI: 10.1038/ng1196-320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 331] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Fanconi anaemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a diversity of clinical symptoms including skeletal abnormalities, progressive bone marrow failure and a marked predisposition to cancer. FA cells exhibit chromosomal instability and hyper-responsiveness to the clastogenic and cytotoxic effects of bifunctional alkylating (cross-linking) agents, such as diepoxybutane (DEB) and mitomycin C (MMC). Five complementation groups (A-E) have been distinguished on the basis of somatic cell hybridization experiments, with group FA-A accounting for over 65% of the cases analysed. A cDNA for the group C gene (FAC) was reported and localized to chromosome 9q22.3 (ref.8). Genetic map positions were recently reported for two more FA genes, FAA (16q24.3) and FAD (3p22-26). Here we report the isolation of a cDNA representing the FAA gene, following an expression cloning method similar to the one used to clone the FAC gene. The 5.5-kb cDNA has an open reading frame of 4,368 nucleotides. In contrast to the 63-kD cytosolic protein encoded by the FAC gene, the predicted FAA protein (M(r) 162, 752) contains two overlapping bipartite nuclear localization signals and a partial leucine zipper consensus, which are suggestive of a nuclear localization.
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Affiliation(s)
- J R Lo Ten Foe
- Department of Human Genetics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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