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A novel complex mutation in the LDL receptor gene probably caused by the simultaneous occurrence of deletion and insertion in the same region

✍ Scribed by Kimiko Yamakawa-Kobayashi; Tsutomu Kobayashi; Hisako Yanagi; Yae Shimakura; Juichi Satoh; Hideo Hamaguchi

Publisher
Springer
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
555 KB
Volume
93
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-6717

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✦ Synopsis

A novel complex mutation with the presence of both deletion and insertion in very close proximity in the same region was detected in exon 8 of the LDL receptor gene from two apparently unrelated Japanese families with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). In this mutant LDL receptor gene, the nine bases from nucleotide (nt) 1115 to nt 1123 (AGGGTGGCT) were replaced by six different bases (CACTGA), and consequently the four amino acids from codon 351 to 354, Glu-Gly-Gly-Tyr, were replaced by three amino acids, Ala-Leu-Asn, in the conserved amino acid region of the growth factor repeat B of the LDL receptor. The nature of the amino acid substitution and data on the families suggest that this mutation is very likely to affect the LDL receptor function and cause FH. The generation of this complex mutation can be explained by the simultaneous occurrence of deletion and insertion through the formation of a hairpin-loop structure mediated by inverted repeat sequences. Thus this mutation supports the hypothesis that inverted repeat sequences influence the stability of a given gene and promote human gene mutations.

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