Abstract
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the CD 18 gene which codes for the β2 integrin subunit. We studied two patients, the first of which had a moderate LAD phenotype and expressed only 9% of CD11/CD18 on blood leukocytes. RNA from lymphoblasts was reverse-transcribed, and the cDNA was amplified, cloned, and sequenced. An ATG to AAG alteration in the initiation codon was detected in 39 of 45 (87%) cDNA clones. This mutation was detected in the father, but not in the mother. The maternal defect was shown to be a frameshift mutation with the deletion of a single T in the aspartic acid codon at position 690 (GAT), 11 amino acids N-terminal to the beginning of the transmembrane domain. This mutation predicts a polypeptide which would terminate without transmembrane or cytoplasmic domains. The frameshift mutation was also found in the second patient who had the severe phenotype of LAD (<1% of CD11/CD18), indicating that this allele does not encode a functional protein. The partial expression in the patient with a moderate phenotype must be derived from the initiation codon mutation and may be due to a low level of initiation of translation of the CD18 mRNA at the second codon (CUG).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 714-718 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
Volume | 267 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - Jan 15 1992 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology