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TI Correct splicing despite mutation of the invariant first nucleotide of a
5' splice site: a possible basis for disparate clinical phenotypes in
siblings with adenosine deaminase deficiency.
DT 9408
AU Arredondo-Vega FX; Santisteban I; Kelly S; Schlossman CM; Umetsu DT;
Hershfield MS; Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center,
Durham,; NC 27710.
SO Am J Hum Genet. 1994 May;54(5):820-30. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/94234148
AB Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency usually causes severe combined
immune deficiency in infancy. Milder phenotypes, with delayed or late
onset and gradual decline in immune function, also occur and are
associated with less severely impaired deoxyadenosine (dAdo) catabolism.
We have characterized the mutations responsible for ADA deficiency in
siblings with striking disparity in clinical phenotype. Erythrocyte dAdo
nucleotide pool size, which reflects total residual ADA activity, was
lower in the older, more mildly affected sib (RG) than in her younger,
more severely affected sister (EG). Cultured T cells, fibroblasts, and B
lymphoblasts of RG had detectable residual ADA activity, while cells of
EG did not. ADA mRNA was undetectable by northern analysis in these
cells of both patients. Both sibs were found to be compound
heterozygotes for the following novel splicing defects: (1) a G+1-->A
substitution at the 5' splice site of IVS 2 and (2) a complex 17-bp
rearrangement of the 3' splice site of IVS 8, which inserted a run of
seven purines into the polypyrimidine tract and altered the reading
frame of exon 9. PCR-amplified ADA cDNA clones with premature
translation stop codons arising from aberrant pre-mRNA splicing were
identified, which were consistent with these mutations. However, some
cDNA clones from T cells of both patients and from fibroblasts and
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed B cells of RG, were normally
spliced at both the exon 2/3 and exon 8/9 junctions. A normal coding
sequence was documented for clones from both sibs. The normal cDNA
clones did not appear to arise from either contamination or PCR
artifact, and mosaicism seems unlikely to have been involved. These
findings suggest (1) that a low level of normal pre-mRNA splicing may
occur despite mutation of the invariant first nucleotide of the 5'
splice donor sequence and (2) that differences in efficiency of such
splicing may account for the difference in residual ADA activity, immune
dysfunction, and clinical severity in these siblings.
DE Adenosine Deaminase/*DEFICIENCY/*GENETICS/METABOLISM Base Sequence
Case Report Cell Line Cells, Cultured Child, Preschool
DNA/CHEMISTRY/GENETICS DNA Primers Exons Female
Fibroblasts/ENZYMOLOGY Heterozygote Detection Human Infant Molecular
Sequence Data Nuclear Family Phenotype *Point Mutation Polymerase
Chain Reaction *RNA Splicing RNA, Messenger/ANALYSIS Severe Combined
Immunodeficiency/ENZYMOLOGY/*GENETICS Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Support,
U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. T-Lymphocytes/ENZYMOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).