Intron-mediated recombination may cause a deletion in an alpha 1 type I collagen chain in a lethal form of osteogenesis imperfecta.
AUTOR(ES)
Barsh, G S
RESUMO
To understand the nature of the mutation in type I collagen genes in cells from an infant with the perinatal lethal form of osteogenesis imperfecta (type II), we cloned and sequenced almost 2 kilobases of a normal alpha 1(I) collagen gene and the corresponding region of a mutant alpha 1(I) gene from cell strain CRL 1262. The mutant gene had undergone recombination between two non-homologous introns, which resulted in the loss of three exons coding for 84 amino acids in the triple-helical domain. The deletion predicted the loss of amino acid residues surrounding and including the methionine at the junction between the CNBr peptides alpha 1(I) CB8 and alpha 1(I) CB3, a result confirmed by analysis of the cleavage peptides from the product of the mutant gene. Although large deletions from collagen genes are uncommon causes of the osteogenesis imperfecta type II phenotype, analysis of the de novo change in gene structure in this cell strain suggests that similar rearrangements may have occurred during the evolution of the large collagen genes.
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