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Abnormal apolipoprotein B pre-mRNA splicing in patients with familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia.


ABSTRACT: Familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia (FHBL) is a codominant disorder characterised by fatty liver and reduced plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and its protein constituent apolipoprotein B (apoB). FHBL is linked to the APOB gene in some but not all known cases. In a group of 59 patients with FHBL genotyped for APOB gene mutations, we found three novel splice-site mutations: c.904+4A-->G in intron 8, c.3843-2A-->G in intron 24 and c.4217-1G-->T in intron 25.To assess the effects of these mutations on apoB pre-mRNA splicing.ApoB mRNA was analysed in the liver of one proband and in cells expressing APOB minigenes harbouring the mutations found in the other probands.In the liver of the c.3843-2A-->G carrier, an apoB mRNA devoid of exon 25 was identified, predicted to encode a truncated peptide of 1260 amino acids. The analysis of minigene transcripts in COS-1 cells showed that the c.904+4A-->G mutation caused the formation of an mRNA devoid of exon 8, predicted to encode a short apoB of 247 amino acids. The minigene harbouring the c.4217-1G-->T mutation in intron 25 generated an mRNA in which exon 25 joined to a partially deleted exon 26, resulting from the activation of an acceptor site in exon 26; this mRNA is predicted to encode a truncated protein of 1380 amino acids. All these truncated apoBs were not secreted as constituents of plasma lipoproteins.These findings demonstrate the pathogenic effect of rare splice-site mutations of the APOB gene found in FHBL.

SUBMITTER: Di Leo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2598025 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Abnormal apolipoprotein B pre-mRNA splicing in patients with familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia.

Di Leo Enza E   Magnolo Lucia L   Lancellotti Sandra S   Crocè Lory L   Visintin Luca L   Tiribelli Claudio C   Bertolini Stefano S   Calandra Sebastiano S   Tarugi Patrizia P  

Journal of medical genetics 20061208 3


<h4>Background</h4>Familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia (FHBL) is a codominant disorder characterised by fatty liver and reduced plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and its protein constituent apolipoprotein B (apoB). FHBL is linked to the APOB gene in some but not all known cases. In a group of 59 patients with FHBL genotyped for APOB gene mutations, we found three novel splice-site mutations: c.904+4A-->G in intron 8, c.3843-2A-->G in intron 24 and c.4217-1G-->T in intron 25.<h4>Object  ...[more]

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