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Hoeijmakers JH. From xeroderma pigmentosum to the biological clock contributions of Dirk Bootsma to human genetics. Mutat Res 2001; 485:43-59. [PMID: 11341993 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(00)00079-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This paper commemorates the multiple contributions of Dirk Bootsma to human genetics. During a scientific 'Bootsma' cruise on his sailing-boat 'de Losbol', we visit a variety of scenery locations along the lakes and canals in Friesland, passing the highlights of Dirk Bootsma's scientific oeuvre. Departing from 'de Fluessen', his homeport, with his PhD work on the effect of X-rays and UV on cell cycle progression, we head for the pioneering endeavours of his team on mapping genes on human chromosomes by cell hybridization. Next we explore the use of cell hybrids by the Bootsma team culminating in the molecular cloning of one of the first chromosomal breakpoints involved in oncogenesis: the bcr-abl fusion gene responsible for chronic myelocytic leukemia. This seminal achievement enabled later development of new methods for early detection and very promising therapeutic intervention. A series of highlights at the horizon constitute the contributions of his team to the field of DNA repair, beginning with the discovery of genetic heterogeneity in the repair syndrome xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) followed later by the cloning of a large number of human repair genes. This led to the discovery that DNA repair is strongly conserved in evolution rendering knowledge from yeast relevant for mammals and vice versa. In addition, it resolved the molecular basis of several repair syndromes and permitted functional analysis of the encoded proteins. Another milestone is the discovery of the surprising connection between DNA repair and transcription initiation via the dual functional TFIIH complex in collaboration with Jean-Marc Egly et al. in Strasbourg. This provided an explanation for many puzzling clinical features and triggered a novel concept in human genetics: the existence of repair/transcription syndromes. The generation of many mouse mutants carrying defects in repair pathways yielded valuable models for assessing the clinical relevance of DNA repair including carcinogenesis and the identification of a link between DNA damage and premature aging. His team also opened a fascinating area of cell biology with the analysis of repair and transcription in living cells. A final surprising evolutionary twist was the discovery that photolyases designed for the light-dependent repair of UV-induced DNA lesions appeared to be adopted for driving the mammalian biological clock. The latter indicates that it is time to return to 'de Fluessen', where we will consider briefly the merits of Dirk Bootsma for Dutch science in general.
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- J H Hoeijmakers
- MGC, Cell Biology and Genetics, Center for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Nanba E, Suzuki K. Molecular cloning of mouse acid beta-galactosidase cDNA: sequence, expression of catalytic activity and comparison with the human enzyme. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1990; 173:141-8. [PMID: 2124109 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(05)81033-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A full-length cDNA coding for mouse lysosomal acid beta-galactosidase has been isolated on the basis of homology with the human gene. Catalytic activity toward 4-methylumbelliferyl beta-D-galactoside in the COS-1 cell expression system provided positive proof for its authenticity. The sequence analysis showed that the degree of similarity between the human and mouse enzymes was approximately 70% in the nucleotide sequence and nearly 80% in the amino acid sequence. The deduced primary amino acid sequences of the enzymes from the two species indicated that, of the seven possible N-glycosylation sites in the human enzyme, five are conserved in the mouse enzyme. Three additional possible N-glycosylation sites, not present in the human enzyme, are found in the primary amino acid sequence of the mouse enzyme. All seven cysteine residues in the mouse enzyme are conserved in the human enzyme. Although the nucleotide sequence could be aligned to 60% identity with the E. coli beta-galactosidase, similarity in the amino acid sequence was minimal.
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- E Nanba
- Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599
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Sips HJ, de Wit-Verbeek HA, de Wit J, Westerveld A, Galjaard H. The chromosomal localization of human beta-galactosidase revisited: a locus for beta-galactosidase on human chromosome 3 and for its protective protein on human chromosome 22. Hum Genet 1985; 69:340-4. [PMID: 3921454 DOI: 10.1007/bf00291653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A series of man-Chinese hamster and man-mouse somatic cell hybrids was investigated to study the localization of the genes coding for the human lysosomal enzyme beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) and for its protective protein. Using a monoclonal antibody, raised against human placental beta-galactosidase, it was observed that the structural locus for the beta-galactosidase polypeptide is located on chromosome 3. The nature of the involvement of chromosome 22 in the expression of human beta-galactosidase was elucidated by metabolic labelling of the hybrids with radioactive amino acids, immunoprecipitation with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against beta-galactosidase, followed by analysis via gel electrophoresis and fluorography. The data show that the presence of chromosome 22 coincides with the presence of a 32 kd protein. This polypeptide, the "protective protein" was previously shown to be intimately associated with human beta-galactosidase. In addition, the protective protein was found to be essential for the in vivo stability of beta-galactosidase by aggregating beta-galactosidase monomers into high molecular weight multimers. Both chromosome 3 and 22 are therefore necessary to obtain normal levels of beta-galactosidase activity in human cells.
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Schwartz S, Max SR, Panny SR, Cohen MM. Deletions of proximal 15q and non-classical Prader-Willi syndrome phenotypes. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1985; 20:255-63. [PMID: 2858158 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320200208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A deletion of the long arm of chromosome 15 (usually involving bands 15q11-q12) has been seen in approximately 50% of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) patients [Ledbetter et al, 1982]. However, 14 patients with non-PWS (or atypical PWS) phenotype with 15q deletion indicate great clinical variability. A deletion was found in a propositus with a de novo translocation [45,XY, -15, -22, +rec(15;22) (22pter----22q13.2::15q14----15qter)], who had anomalies not normally observed in PWS patients. Activities of several enzymes mapped to the involved chromosomes were studied in the patient and control individuals. A 50% decrease in the level of arylsulfatase-A confirmed a small deletion in 22q(22q13.2----qter), and additional studies localized more precisely the loci for alpha-mannosidase (cytoplasmic) and beta-galactosidase.
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Müller CR, Westerveld A, Migl B, Franke W, Ropers HH. Regional assignment of the gene locus for steroid sulfatase. Hum Genet 1980; 54:201-4. [PMID: 6985463 DOI: 10.1007/bf00278972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The gene locus for steroid sulfatase, deficiency of which causes X-linked ichthyosis, is assigned to Xp11 leads to Xpter by analysis of 24 man-Chinese hamster somatic cell hybrids. High steroid sulfatase activity in a hybrid clone having retained only part of Xq is explained by demonstration of an additional late-replicating human X chromosome. This observation confirms previous evidence for noninactivation of the STS locus.
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Hoeksema HL, De Wit J, Westerveld A. The genetic defect in the various types of human beta-galactosidase deficiency. Hum Genet 1980; 53:241-7. [PMID: 6766901 DOI: 10.1007/bf00273505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Bruns GA, Mintz BJ, Leary AC, Regina VM, Gerald PS. Human lysosomal genes: arylsulfatase A and beta-galactosidase. Biochem Genet 1979; 17:1031-59. [PMID: 120190 DOI: 10.1007/bf00504344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The segregation of human lysosomal arylsulfatase A (ARS-A) has been evaluated in 50 primary hybrid clones derived from four separate fusions involving WBCs from two unrelated individuals and three hamster cell lines. ARS-A was expressed in the hybrids as a dimeric molecule of very similar or identical subunits. The expression of this enzyme was concordant with that of mitochondrial aconitase (ACON-M), an isozyme assigned to chromosome 22, in all 50 clones and with chromosome 22 segregation in all but one of the 29 karyotyped hybrids. No other human chromosome cosegregated with 22 in these clones, suggesting that this enzyme is specified in hybrid cells by a locus (or loci) on a single chromosome. beta-Galactosidase (B-GAL) expression was analyzed with two different electrophoresis systems and with a number of cell extract preparation methods in 39 of the primary hybrid clones. The B-GAL isozyme expressed in these hybrid cells was concordant with the expression of glutathione peroxidase-1 (GPX-1), an isozyme assigned to chromosome 3, in all 39 clones and with the segregation of this chromosome in 97% of the 29 karyotyped hybrids. These observations substantiate the prior tentative assignments of an ARS-A locus to chromosome 22 and a B-GAL locus to chromosome 3 (Bruns et al., 1978a, b). The implications of the chromosome assignments of loci for 12 human lysosomal enzymes for the cellular assembly of these organelles are discussed.
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Shows TB, Scrafford-Wolff LR, Brown JA, Meisler MH. GM1-gangliosidosis: chromosome 3 assignment of the beta-galactosidase-A gene (beta GALA). SOMATIC CELL GENETICS 1979; 5:147-58. [PMID: 113895 DOI: 10.1007/bf01539157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The structural gene (beta GALA) coding for lysosomal beta-galactosidase-A (EC 3.2.1.23) has been assigned to human chromosome 3 using man--mouse somatic cell hybrids. Human beta-galactosidase-A was identified in cell hybrids with a species-specific antiserum to human liver beta-galactosidase-A. The antiserum precipitates beta-galactosidase-A from human tissues, cultured cells, and cell hybrids, and recognizes cross-reacting material from a patient with GM1 gangliosidosis. We have analyzed 90 primary man--mouse hybrids derived from 12 separate fusion experiments utilizing cells from 9 individuals. Enzyme segregation analysis excluded all chromosomes for beta GALA assignment except chromosome 3. Concordant segregation of chromosomes and enzymes in 16 cell hybrids demonstrated assignment of beta GALA to chromosome 3; all other chromosomes were excluded. The evidence suggests that GM1 gangliosidosis is a consequence of mutation at this beta GALA locus on chromosome 3.
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Reuser AJ, Andria G, de Wit-Verbeek E, Hoogeveen A, del Giudice E, Halley D. A two-year-old patient with an atypical expression of GM1-beta-galactosidase deficiency: biochemical, immunological, and cell genetic studies. Hum Genet 1979; 46:11-9. [PMID: 107114 DOI: 10.1007/bf00278897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cultured skin fibroblasts from a 2-year-old boy with an atypical form of beta-galactosidase deficiency have been studied. With the artificial substrate 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside, 5--15% residual activity was found in fibroblasts from this patient. Most of this activity was in the monomeric A form of the enzyme, very little in the multimeric B form. Km value, pH profile, and heat lability of the mutant enzyme were similar to those of beta-galactosidase from control fibroblasts. Immunological studies showed that the mutant enzyme cross-reacted with an antiserum raised against human liver beta-galactosidase, but the catalytic activity per unit antigenic activity was lower than normal. It was demonstrated by somatic cell hybridization that the gene mutation in this patient is different from that in patients with type 1 or type 2 GM1-gangliosidosis. No genetic complementation was found after fusion of fibroblasts from this patient with those from two other clinical variants of GM1-gangliosidosis formerly designated type 3 and adult type 4.
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The gangliosidoses comprise an-ever increasing number of biochemically and phenotypically variant diseases. In most of them an autosomal recessive inherited deficiency of a lysosomal hydrolase results in the fatal accumulation of glucolipids (predominantly in the nervous tissue) and of oligosaccharides. The structure, substrate specificity, immunological properties of and genetic studies on the relevant glycosidases, ganglioside GM1 beta-galactosidase and beta-hexosaminidase isoenzymes, are reviewed in this paper. Contrary to general expectation, only a poor correlation is observed between the severity of the disease and residual activity of the defective enzyme when measured with synthetic or natural substrates in the presence of detergents. For the understanding of variant diseases and for their pre- and postnatal diagnosis, the necessity of studying the substrate specificity of normal and mutated enzymes under conditions similar to the in vivo situation, e.g., with natural substrates in the presence of appropriate activator proteins, is stressed. The possibility that detergents may have adverse affects on the substrate specificity of the enzymes is discussed for the beta-hexosaminidases. The significance of activator proteins for the proper interaction of lipid substrates and water-soluble hydrolases is illustrated by the fatal glycolipid storage resulting from an activator protein deficiency in the AB variant of GM2-gangliosidosis. Recent somatic complementation studies have revealed the existence of a presumably post-translational modification factor necessary for the expression of ganglioside GM1 beta-galactosidase activity. This factor is deficient in a group of variants of GM1-glangliosidosis. Among the possible reasons for the variability of enzyme activity levels in heterozygotes and patients, allelic mutations, formation of hybrid enzymes, and the existence of patients as compound heterozygotes are discussed. All these may result in the production of mutant enzymes with an altered specificity for a variety of natural substrates.
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Naylor SL, Shows TB, Klebe RJ. Bioautographic visualization of aminoacylase-1: assignment of the structural gene ACY-1 to chromosome 3 in man. SOMATIC CELL GENETICS 1979; 5:11-21. [PMID: 373141 DOI: 10.1007/bf01538782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A bioautographic assay was developed for the visualization of aminoacylase-1 (N-acylamino acid aminohydrolase, ACY-1; EC 3.5.1.14) after zone electrophoresis. Bioautography and species differences in electrophoretic mobility of ACY-1 made it possible to investigate the chromosome assignment of the gene for human ACY-1 using human--mouse somatic cell hybrids. Human ACY-1 segregated concordantly with beta-galactosidase-A (beta GALA; EC 3.2.1.23) but showed discordant segregation with 32 other markers representing 23 linkage groups. The beta GALA gene has been previously assigned to chromosome 3. From this evidence and confirming chromosome analyses, ACY-1 has been assigned to chromosome 3. A genetic polymorphism in the electrophoretic mobility of ACY was observed in mouse strains, demonstrating that this enzyme can be mapped in genetic crosses of Mus musculus.
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de Groot PG, Westerveld A, Meera Khan P, Tager JM. Localization of a gene for human alpha-galactosidase B (= n-acetyl-alpha-d-galactosaminidase) on chromosome 22. Hum Genet 1978; 44:305-12. [PMID: 215508 DOI: 10.1007/bf00394295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The localization of the structural gene for human alpha-galactosidase B (= N-acetyl-alpha-galactosaminidase) was investigated by means of man-Chinese hamster and man-mouse somatic cell hybrids. The hybrid clones were analyzed for chromosomes and for a large number of known enzyme markers. The lysates of the hybrid cells were treated with Sepharose-coupled antihuman alpha-galactosidase B and the activity of the adsorbed enzyme was measured on the Sepharose beads as N-acetyl-alpha-galactosaminidase. The results show that the structural gene for human alpha-galactosidase B is situated on chromosome 22, and that there is no structural relationship between human alpha-galactosidase A and human alpha-galactosidase B.
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Halley DJ, de Wit-Verbeek HA, Reuser AJ, Galjaard H. The distribution of hydrolytic enzyme activities in human fibroblast cultures and their intercellular transfer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1978; 82:1176-82. [PMID: 100108 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(78)90310-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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de Wit-Verbeek HA, Hoogeveen A, Galjaard H. Complementation studies with enucleated fibroblasts from different variants of beta-galactosidase deficiency. Exp Cell Res 1978; 113:215-8. [PMID: 416963 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(78)90104-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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