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Mutations causing defective splicing in the human hprt gene
Author(s) -
Andersson Björn,
Hou SaiMei,
Lambert Bo
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
environmental and molecular mutagenesis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1098-2280
pISSN - 0893-6692
DOI - 10.1002/em.2850200204
Subject(s) - exon , splice site mutation , exon trapping , intron , rna splicing , biology , genetics , exon skipping , mutant , mutation , microbiology and biotechnology , minigene , complementary dna , exon shuffling , splice , gene , tandem exon duplication , alternative splicing , rna
Ten intron mutations and one exon mutation giving rise to defective splicing in the human gene for hypoxanthine phosporibosyl transferase (hprt) in T‐lymphocytes have been characterized. the splicing mutants were detected by PCR amplification of hprt cDNA and direct sequencing. Nine of the mutants showed skipping of whole exons or parts of exons in the cDNA, one mutant had an inclusion of an intron sequence into the cDNA, and one mutant showed both inclusion of an intron sequence and skipping of exons as well as a normal cDNA. Genomic PCR and direct sequencing of the splice sites involved showed one deletion of three base pairs and 10 different single base alterations to be responsible for these splice alterations. One mutation in the last base pair of exon 6 causing skipping of the entire exon 6 was found, whereas an identical mutation in the last base pair of exon 2 caused no aberrant splicing. It was also found that a deletion mutation in the pyrimidine rich stretch of the acceptor site of intron 7 caused skipping of the entire exon 8, whereas a base substitution in the last base of intron 7 caused exclusion of only the first 21 base pairs of exon 8 as a result of the activation of a cryptic acceptor site in exon 8. The results show that many different types of mutations at several different sites can cause splicing errors in the hprt gene and that the sequence differences between the splice sites influence the possible spectrum of mutations in each site. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.