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Among the Japanese population, a G-to-A mutation at the beginning of intron 14 of the human cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) gene is a frequent cause of CETP deficiency characterized by markedly increased HDL cholesterol. The resulting abnormalities responsible for null CETP deficiency were studied in detail. The CETP mRNA transcripts amplified by polymerase chain reaction from the monocyte-derived macrophages of two homozygous patients were both found to be normal except for the whole deletion of exon 14. The deletion causes a shift of reading frame and introduces a premature termination codon downstream. Examination of the macrophage RNA from heterozygotes suggested the increased instability of the abnormal mRNA in the cytoplasm, because the amount of the aberrant transcript was nearly one third that of a normal transcript in the cytoplasm, while they were equal in the nucleus. Although this indicated the synthesis of a mutant CETP that lacks about 15% at its carboxy terminus, immunoblot analysis demonstrated that the abnormal CETP was virtually absent in both the media and cell lysates of transfected COS-1 cells, which massively expressed the mutant CETP mRNA. These results elucidate the primary abnormality due to the common CETP splicing mutation to be the exon skipping of mRNA, which decreases the level of mRNA and produces a truncated protein that should be rapidly degraded intracellularly.

arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology

Skipping of Exon 14 and Possible Instability of Both the mRNA and the Resultant Truncated Protein Underlie a Common Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Deficiency in Japan