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Merkle S, Pretsch W. Characterization of triosephosphate isomerase mutants with reduced enzyme activity in Mus musculus. Genetics 1989; 123:837-44. [PMID: 2693209 PMCID: PMC1203893 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/123.4.837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Four heterozygous triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) mutants with approximately 50% reduced activity in blood compared to wild type were detected in offspring of 1-ethyl-1-nitrosourea treated male mice. Breeding experiments displayed an autosomal, dominant mode of inheritance for the mutations. All mutations were found to be homozygous lethal at an early postimplantation stage of embryonic development, probably due to a total lack of TPI activity and consequently to the inability to utilize glucose as a source of metabolic energy. Although activity alteration was also found in liver, lung, kidney, spleen, heart, brain and muscle the TPI deficiency in heterozygotes has no influence on the following physiological traits: hematological parameters, plasma glucose, glucose consumption of blood cells, body weight and organo-somatic indices of liver, spleen, heart, kidney and lung. Biochemical investigations of TPI in the four mutant lines indicated no difference of physicochemical properties compared to the wild type. Results from immunoinactivation assays indicate that the decrease of enzyme activity corresponds to a decrease in the level of an immunologically active moiety. It is suggested that the mutations have affected the Tpi-1 structural locus and resulted in alleles which produce no detectable enzyme activity and no immunologically cross-reacting material. The study furthermore suggests one functional TPI gene per haploid genome in the erythrocyte and seven other tested organs of the mouse.
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- S Merkle
- GSF-Institut für Sügetiergenetik, Neuherberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Friedrich CA, Ferrell RE, Siciliano MJ, Kitto GB. Biochemical and genetic identity of alpha-keto acid reductase and cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase from human erythrocytes. Ann Hum Genet 1988; 52:25-37. [PMID: 3052244 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1988.tb01075.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have recently shown that cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase (MDH-s) from several non-human species catalyses the reduction of aromatic alpha-keto acids in the presence of NADH (Friedrich et al. 1987), an activity previously attributed to the enzyme aromatic alpha-keto acid reductase (KAR E.C.1.1.1.96). Here we present evidence that this also occurs in humans, and that the previously characterized human KAR is not the product of a genetically distinct locus. Human MDH-s and KAR activities co-migrate after starch gel electrophoresis, and electrophoretic variants of human MDH-s exhibited identical variation for KAR. Both enzymes show almost no electrophoretic variation among human populations of diverse origin. The reduction of aromatic alpha-keto acids is substantially inhibited by malate, the end-product of the MDH reaction. Antibodies raised against purified chicken MDH-s equally inhibited both MDH-s and KAR in chickens and humans. The bulk of the KAR activity in human blood appears to be due to MDH-s, with a minor fraction catalysed by LDH, as is the case in most other species studied. The previous assignment of a gene for KAR to human chromosome 12 in human/Chinese hamster somatic cell hybrids is questioned because interspecific hybrid bands of both MDH-s and LDH appear with slightly different mobility approximately midway between the human and hamster controls in somatic cell hybrid studies, and the meaning of this artifact is discussed. The discovery that MDH reacts with intermediate metabolites of phenylalanine and tyrosine has implications in relation to the mechanism by which mental retardation may be produced in phenylketonuria (PKU), and the effect of MDH inhibition on oxidative phosphorylation in the various tyrosinaemias is discussed.
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- C A Friedrich
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston 77225
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Mohrenweiser HW, Wurzinger KH, Neel JV. Frequency and distribution of rare electrophoretic mobility variants in a population of human newborns in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Hum Genet 1987; 51:303-16. [PMID: 3447514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1987.tb01065.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We have summarized the frequency and distribution of the rare variants encountered during the screening of 258,815 allele products, the products of 51 different loci, in 3242 predominantly Caucasian (88%) newborns. Seventy-nine different rare variants, representing 187 occurrences, were identified. Almost 60% (46 of 79) of the rare variants occurred as singletons while another 20% were seen in two unrelated individuals. No rare variants were detected at 18 loci while no variants, either rare or polymorphic, were detected at 14 loci. More rare variants were identified at loci that were classified as polymorphic and also at loci where the gene products exist as a monomer. A positive relationship was observed between variant frequency, either classes or copies, and subunit molecular mass.
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- H W Mohrenweiser
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109
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Mohrenweiser HW, Wade PT, Wurzinger KH. Characterization of a series of electrophoretic and enzyme activity variants of human glucose-phosphate isomerase. Hum Genet 1987; 75:28-31. [PMID: 3804329 DOI: 10.1007/bf00273834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A total of 3438 cord blood samples were screened for variants of erythrocyte glucose-phosphate isomerase. The five different electrophoretic, three activity/deficiency, and one thermostability variants distributed among 27 unrelated Caucasian families of that population, plus two electrophoretic variants previously described from three Amerindian tribes were subsequently examined for cryptic variation using activity and thermostability criteria. Although thermostability differences were observed between electrophoretic variants, no microheterogeneity within any one class of variant was detected.
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Asakawa J, Satoh C. Characterization of three electrophoretic variants of human erythrocyte triosephosphate isomerase found in Japanese. Biochem Genet 1986; 24:131-48. [PMID: 3964229 DOI: 10.1007/bf00502984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Three new electrophoretic variants of human erythrocyte triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) have been partially purified and compared with the normal isozyme with respect to stability, kinetics, and immunological properties. TPI 2HR1, an anodally migrating variant, was less stable than normal in guanidine denaturation and thermodenaturation tests, although it exhibited normal kinetic properties. The level of enzyme activity in erythrocytes from the proband with the phenotype TPI 1-2HR1 was about 60% of the normal mean. The variant allozyme TPI 2NG1, an anodally migrating allozyme associated with normal activity, was very thermolabile at 55 and 57 degrees C. It was also much more labile than normal in stability tests in buffers at pH 5 and pH 10, although it exhibited normal kinetic and immunological properties. TPI 4NG1, a cathodally migrating variant associated with normal activity and normal kinetic as well as immunological properties, was more stable than normal in pH 5 buffer. Family studies demonstrated that the unique characteristics of these variants are genetically transmitted. In two-dimensional electrophoresis of purified isozymes the variant subunits were separated from the normal in the pI axis. However, there is no difference between the variants and the normal in the molecular weight axis, suggesting that the variants result from single amino acid substitutions.
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Lewis SE, Barnett LB, Felton C, Johnson FM, Skow LC, Cacheiro N, Shelby MD. Dominant visible and electrophoretically expressed mutations induced in male mice exposed to ethylene oxide by inhalation. ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS 1986; 8:867-72. [PMID: 3780618 DOI: 10.1002/em.2860080609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The offspring of DBA/2J male mice exposed to ethylene oxide (EtO) by inhalation had an increased incidence of both dominant visible and electrophoretically detected mutations over that found in control populations. The progeny at risk were obtained from matings during the exposure period and were the products of germ cells that were exposed throughout the entire spermatogenic process. The results reported here suggest that male germ cells repeatedly exposed to EtO during spermatogenesis are susceptible to EtO-induced transmissible damage.
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Skolnick MM, Neel JV. An algorithm for comparing two-dimensional electrophoretic gels, with particular reference to the study of mutation. ADVANCES IN HUMAN GENETICS 1986; 15:55-160. [PMID: 3513485 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8356-1_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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An algorithm dedicated to the detection of presumed mutational events involving the polypeptides displayed with two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis has been described. Because of the large number of gels necessary in most studies of mutation, the algorithm has been designed to minimize operator intervention in its execution. The basic principle involves a comparison of the graph structures of the gels of a father, mother, and one or more children, searching for protein spots in the child not found in either parent. These so-called "orphan" spots are considered a probable manifestation of mutation only after other possible causes of such an isolated event have been excluded as rigorously as possible. At present, the analysis of gels prepared from a platelet or erythrocyte lysate yields about 2% "false-positive" findings, i.e., results in the incorrect designation of a unique spot in a child. These errors can be disposed of by technician intervention. In an experiment designed to simulate the occurrence of mutational events, the algorithm operated with 70% accuracy. Most of the "errors" ("false negatives") occurred when the position of the simulated mutant polypeptide coincided in whole or part with that of a preexisting polypeptide, resulting in a class of mutation not detectable by the eye either. With correction for this fact, the accuracy was 84%. Possible improvements in the algorithm which would substantially increase accuracy have been discussed at some length, as have some ideas as to how to manage the large body of data resulting from the operation of the algorithm. A murine experiment designed to validate the approach has been outlined.
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Rosa R, Prehu MO, Calvin MC, Badoual J, Alix D, Girod R. Hereditary triose phosphate isomerase deficiency: seven new homozygous cases. Hum Genet 1985; 71:235-40. [PMID: 4065896 DOI: 10.1007/bf00284582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Seven new homozygous cases of hereditary triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency have been detected in five unrelated families. Two of the families originate in France, the others from Algeria, Yugoslavia, and Morocco. Only the parents coming from Algeria and Morocco were first cousins. In the other parents no evidence of consanguinity was found. All seven patients exhibited the same symptoms, i.e. hemolytic anemia appearing very early after birth associated with progressive neuromuscular symptoms. Expression of the deficiency is heterogeneous; this had previously been pointed out in the previously reported cases of TPI deficiency. Red cell TPI activity was 3 to 4% of the normal mean in the patients and 50 to 60% in the parents. The latter did not exhibit any clinical symptoms. The levels of red cell glycolytic intermediates and the characteristics of the mutated TPI could be studied in four of the patients only. Substantial increases of red cell dihydroxyacetone phosphate and of fructose 1,6-diphosphate, normal Km of TPI for glyceraldehyde phosphate, and thermoinstability of the enzyme were found. In addition the electrophoretic pattern showed no significant modification of the mobility of the TPI bands, but abnormal decreased staining of the two more anodal bands.
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Decker RS, Mohrenweiser HW. Cell proliferation-associated expression of a recently evolved isozyme of triosephosphate isomerase. Biochem Genet 1985; 23:267-80. [PMID: 4015618 DOI: 10.1007/bf00504324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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An electrophoretically unique, thermolabile isozyme of triosephosphate isomerase (TPI; EC 5.3.1.1) accounts for 10-30% of the enzymatic activity in a range of mitotically active human cells and tissues. This type 2 form (subunit) of human TPI appears in two isozymes, an anodally migrating, relative to the constitutive TPI-1/1 homodimer, TPI-2/2 homodimer and the TPI-1/2 heterodimer with an intermediate mobility. Human cell types expressing the induced isozyme, which is the product of the same structural locus as the constitutive isozyme, include mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes, virally transformed B-lymphoblastoid cells, leukemia-derived T-lymphoblastoid cells, HeLa cells, both normal and transformed fibroblasts, and placental tissue. Extracts of nondividing or terminally differentiated human cells/tissues, such as erythrocytes, striated muscle, peripheral lymphocytes, and platelets, contain high levels of the constitutive TPI-1/1 isozyme but little or undetectable levels of the TPI-1/2 or TPI-2/2 isozyme. The cell division-associated TPI-1/2 and -2/2 isozymes are distinct in electrophoretic mobility from the deamidated forms of the constitutive isozyme. Extracts of dividing gorilla fibroblasts display an isozyme pattern identical to that of proliferating human cells, but various proliferating cells derived from the African green monkey, rabbit, and chicken express only the constitutive isozyme. Thus, expression of the cell division-associated isozyme of TPI is restricted to the hominoids, suggesting a recently evolved modification mechanism which is specifically activated in proliferating cells.
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Wurzinger KH, Novotny JE, Mohrenweiser HW. Studies of the purine analog associated modulation of human erythrocyte acid phosphatase activity. Mol Cell Biochem 1985; 66:127-36. [PMID: 3982404 DOI: 10.1007/bf00220780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The activity of the human erythrocyte acid phosphatase is modulated by a series of structural analogs of purine. The unsubstituted purine base does not affect the enzyme activity. Addition of a substituent at the number six position usually generates an analog which activates the enzyme while similar substitutions at the two position usually generate an inhibitor. Pyrimidines are generally ineffective as modulators while several modifications of the imidazole ring of the purine analogs do not abolish the modulator activity of the purine analog. The level of response to all active analogs is isozyme specific. Differences in apparent relative affinities among the modulators are noted. The modulators with a positive effect on enzyme activity, are effective in the presence of methanol which is more effective than H2O as a phosphate acceptor. These analogs act by enhancing the rate of transfer of phosphate to H2O, while decreasing the rate of transfer to methanol. The results suggest that the purine analogs may act by altering the rate of hydrolysis of the phosphoenzyme intermediate by H2O or may change the rate-limiting step in the catalytic mechanism.
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Satoh C, Neel JV, Miura A, Ueno C, Arakawa H, Omine H, Goriki K, Fujita M. Inherited thermostability variants of seven enzymes in a Japanese population. Ann Hum Genet 1985; 49:11-22. [PMID: 4073825 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1985.tb01671.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The frequency of inherited variations in thermostability was investigated in a series of seven enzymes in a Japanese population. Among a total of 5930 determinations, nine variants were encountered. In each instance one parent exhibited a similar finding. It is suggested that this procedure should detect a high proportion of the variants of these enzymes characterized by amino acid substitutions not altering molecular charge. Failure to detect more such thermostability variants is interpreted to mean that electrophoresis not only detects amino acid substitutions altering molecular charge but also a considerable proportion of those that do not alter charge.
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Kondrashov AS. Deleterious mutations as an evolutionary factor. 1. The advantage of recombination. Genet Res (Camb) 1984; 44:199-217. [PMID: 6510714 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300026392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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SUMMARYA population withudeleterious mutations per genome per generation is considered in which only those individuals that carry less than a critical number ofkmutations are viable. It has been shown previously that under such conditions sexual reproduction is advantageous. Here we consider selection at a locus that determines recombination frequency of the whole genome. The valuev=u/ √khas been found to play the decisive role. Whenv< 0·35 the direction of selection for recombination may be different for different cases, but the intensity of selection is always very small. The advantage of recombination becomes considerable whenv> 0·5, its growth under increasingvbeing approximately linear. Ifv> 2 no less than 95% of the progeny are bound to die because of the selection against deleterious mutations. Since this seems to be too great a mutation load, we may assume 0·5 < v < 2·0 for any sexual population if mutation really maintains crossing-over. Results on selection at a locus which controls mutability provide evidence thatvis located within the specified interval if the physiological cost of a twofold reduction of the mutation rate is within the range 10–80%. A number of consequences of this hypothesis about the mechanism of selection for sex and recombination are discussed.
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Neel JV, Mohrenweiser HW. Failure to demonstrate mutations affecting protein structure or function in children with congenital defects or born prematurely. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:5499-503. [PMID: 6591202 PMCID: PMC391733 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.17.5499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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An effort has been made to confirm the report [Dubinin, N. P. & Altukhov, Y. P. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 5226-5229] that children born prematurely or exhibiting congenital defects can be shown to exhibit relatively high frequencies of rare (nonpolymorphic) electrophoretic variants of proteins and that a large proportion of these variants are due to mutation in either the father or the mother. In a series of 178 children who were comparable with those described in the earlier report, we failed to encounter a high frequency of these variants in some 5341 determinations involving 45 proteins, nor were any mutations observed. Data from 1583 determinations of enzyme activity on a subset of the panel of proteins were also unremarkable. We are thus unable to confirm the earlier report.
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Mohrenweiser HW, Neel JV. A "disproportion" between the frequency of rare electropmorphs and enzyme deficiency variants in Amerindians. Am J Hum Genet 1984; 36:655-62. [PMID: 6731440 PMCID: PMC1684447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Our previous studies have revealed a higher frequency of nonpolymorphic electrophoretic variants in blood samples from Amerindians than in similar samples from Caucasians and Japanese. Our present study finds, by contrast, that the frequency of deficiency variants of 11 erythrocyte enzymes, sampled in nine Amerindian tribes of Central and South America, is essentially the same (1.5/1,000 determinations) as in Caucasians or Japanese. Possible explanations of the elevated frequency of mobility variants in the tropical-zone/ unacculturated populations include: higher mutation rates resulting in both electrophoretic and activity variants in Amerindians but increased selection against deficiency variants in the Amerindians, or comparable mutation rates in both populations coupled with a greater probability of a mobility variant attaining a relatively high frequency among the Amerindians.
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Bulfield G, Hall JM, Tsakas S. Incidence of inherited enzyme activity variants in feral mouse populations. Biochem Genet 1984; 22:133-8. [PMID: 6712585 DOI: 10.1007/bf00499293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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We have screened 173 wild caught mice (Mus musculus) from multiple sites in Europe for variation in the activity of 14 enzymes and found 8 different mutants with low enzyme activity; an incidence of 3.69/1000. This compares with the incidence of 3.26/1000 found for low enzyme activity variants in man (Mohrenweiser, 1981).
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Asakawa J, Satoh C, Takahashi N, Fujita M, Kaneko J, Goriki K, Hazama R, Kageoka T. Electrophoretic variants of blood proteins in Japanese. III. Triosephosphate isomerase. Hum Genet 1984; 68:185-8. [PMID: 6500570 DOI: 10.1007/bf00279312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A total of 15,387 individuals living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of whom 10,864 are unrelated, were examined for erythrocyte triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) by starch gel electrophoresis using TEMM buffer, pH 7.4. Four kinds of new variants, one having a cathodal migration and three having anodal migrations, were encountered in this population. These variants were further characterized by starch gel electrophoresis using tris-EDTA buffer, pH 9.3, and isoelectric focusing. An anodally migrating allozyme TPI 2HR1 exhibited markedly decreased enzyme activity, as evaluated by the staining intensity of the variant bands. The level of TPI activity in erythrocytes from this individual with the phenotype TPI 1-2HR1 was about 60% of the normal mean. Family studies confirmed the genetic nature of all the variants.
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Li SS, Feldmann RJ, Okabe M, Pan YC. Molecular features and immunological properties of lactate dehydrogenase C4 isozymes from mouse and rat testes. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)32326-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Mohrenweiser HW, Novotny JE. ACP1GUA-1--a low-activity variant of human erythrocyte acid phosphatase: association with increased glutathione reductase activity. Am J Hum Genet 1982; 34:425-33. [PMID: 7081221 PMCID: PMC1685341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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ACP1GUA-1, a variant of human erythrocyte acid phosphatase, exists as a polymorphism (allele frequency of .132) in the Guaymi Indians of Central America. This variant has an electrophoretic mobility similar to the common B- and C-type variants, but individuals of the ACP1GUA-1 phenotype have a level of enzyme activity only 27% of the activity expected for the ACP1C variant. The GUA-1 variant is more thermostable than is the B variant, and the order of responsiveness to the modulation of activity by purine analogs and folate is always (B)-(A)-(GUA-1). Thus, the GUA-1 variant is a low-activity variant with C-like regulatory properties. Erythrocytes from individuals of the ACP1GUA-1 phenotype have increased basal levels of glutathione reductase, and a larger fraction of the glutathione reductase protein is present as the holoenzyme, indicating increased levels of flavin adenine dinucleotide in the erythrocytes of these individuals. This is consistent with the suggestion that ACP1 has a physiological function as a flavin mononucleotide phosphatase.
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Wanner LA, Neel JV, Meisler MH. Separation of allelic variants by two-dimensional electrophoresis. Am J Hum Genet 1982; 34:209-15. [PMID: 6176122 PMCID: PMC1685297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The resolving power of two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis has been tested using 17 allele products at five loci. Standard O'Farrell gels could separate 13 of these isozymes. The addition of a second pH gradient made it possible to separate all but one of the variant proteins. These results indicate that 2-D gel electrophoresis can resolve more than 90% of variants originally detected by one-dimensional (1-D) electrophoresis. The implications of these results for the low estimates of average heterozygosity obtained in surveys using 2-D gel electrophoresis are discussed.
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Asakawa J, Mohrenweiser HW. Characterization of two new electrophoretic variants of human triosephosphate isomerase: stability, kinetic, and immunological properties. Biochem Genet 1982; 20:59-76. [PMID: 7092803 DOI: 10.1007/bf00484936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Two new electrophoretic variants of human triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) have been partially purified and characterized. The TPI Manchester variant, a cathodally migrating electrophoretic allozyme identified in an individual with the phenotype TPI 1-Manchester, is associated with a normal level of enzyme activity in erythrocytes and normal kinetic properties. It is very thermolabile at 55 and 57 degrees C, although it is not uniquely sensitive to either guanidine-HCl or urea denaturation. The TPI Hiroshima-2 variant is an anodally migrating allozyme (the phenotype of proband is TPI 1-Hiroshima-2) with normal activity and kinetic properties and also normal stability characteristics. It is inactivated less by antisera raised against normal human TPI than either the normal or the Manchester allozyme. Dissociation-reassociation experiments utilizing these allozymes have confirmed that normal human red blood cell TPI isozymes are produced by a sequence of reactions (presumably deamidations) involving alternating subunits.
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Mohrenweiser HW, Fielek S, Wurzinger KH. Characteristics of enzymes of erythrocytes from newborn infants and adults: activity, thermostability, and electrophoretic profile as a function of cell age. Am J Hematol 1981; 11:125-36. [PMID: 7304604 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830110203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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THe level of enzyme activity, the enzyme thermostability profile, and the isozyme electrophoretic pattern were determined in young and old erythrocytes from newborn infants and adults and in samples from adult individuals with increased reticulocyte counts. Cord blood samples had higher levels of enzymatic activity for 12 of the 14 enzymes measured, adenylate kinase and phosphoglucomutase being the exceptions. The largest differences in activity between newborns and adults were for glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, hexokinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and glutathione reductase, while glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase and pyruvate kinase showed the largest differences between young and old cells. The levels of activity of glutathione reductase, adenylate kinase, phosphoglucomutase, lactate dehydrogenase, phosphoglycerokinase, and glucose phosphate isomerase in cord blood samples suggest the regulation of expression of these enzymes is different in fetal erythrocytes than in erythrocytes from an adult. Differences in the thermostability profile of enzymes from cells from different sources and/or of different ages were noted for 5 of 9 enzymes. No unique electrophoretically identifiable fetal isozymes were observed, although differences in isozyme distribution and staining intensity associated with cell source and/or cell age were noted for many of the 23 enzymes examined. Many of these differences in enzyme characteristics have the potential to be confused with genetic alterations in enzyme structure and function.
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Decker RS, Mohrenweiser HW. Origin of the triosephosphate isomerase isozymes in humans: genetic evidence for the expression of a single structural locus. Am J Hum Genet 1981; 33:683-91. [PMID: 7294020 PMCID: PMC1685127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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A genetic approach is used to ascertain that a single structural locus for triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) (E.C.5.3.1.1.) is expressed in rapidly dividing human lymphoblasts. This approach is made possible through the identification of a rare electrophoretic variant of human TPI. The variant phenotype is expressed by the TPI-B isozyme in both erythrocytes and peripheral lymphocytes. The variant phenotype is also expressed in the thermostability and electrophoretic pattern of the TPI-A isozyme in mitogen-stimulated lymphoblasts, indicating that TPI-A and TPI-B are products of the same structural locus. These findings are in contrast to the recent conclusions of Yuan et al. based upon structural analysis, suggesting that the TPI-A and TPI-B isozymes are products of distinct structural loci.
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Mohrenweiser HW, Neel JV. Frequency of thermostability variants: estimation of total "rare" variant frequency in human populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:5729-33. [PMID: 6946512 PMCID: PMC348844 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.9.5729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Eight erythrocyte enzymes were examined for thermostability in an unselected sample of 100 newborn infants. Three thermolabile variants, one each of lactate dehydrogenase, glucosephosphate isomerase, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, were identified, none of which was detectable as a variant by standard electrophoretic techniques. All were inherited. This frequency of 3.8 heritable thermostabiliy variants per 1000 determinations is to be compared with a frequency of electrophoretically detectable variants of 1.1 per 1000 determinations, a frequency of 2.4 enzyme-deficiency variants per 1000 determinations, and a frequency of 1.1 hypo/hyperactive enzyme-activity variants per 1000 determinations in this human newborn population. The total measured frequency of individuals with rare enzyme deficiency or electrophoretic or thermostability (or both) variants at these loci is 8.3 per 1000 determinations. A similar distribution and frequency is seen when the comparison is limited to the seven loci studied by all techniques. It is clear that not all of the electrophoretic and thermostability variants present in the population are detected by the techniques used in this study. Accordingly, it is estimated that the true frequency of carriers of a rare variant for each of these enzyme-coding loci averages greater than 10/1000. Some implications of these frequencies for human disease are discussed.
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Mohrenweiser HW. Frequency of enzyme deficiency variants in erythrocytes of newborn infants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:5046-50. [PMID: 6946452 PMCID: PMC320329 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.8.5046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The frequency of enzyme deficiency variants, defined as alleles whose products are either absent or almost devoid of normal activity in erythrocytes, was determined for nine erythrocyte enzymes in some 675 newborn infants and in approximately 200 adults. Examples of this type of genetic abnormality, which in the homozygous condition are often associated with significant health consequences, were detected for seven of the nine enzymes studied. Fifteen inherited enzyme deficiency variants in 6142 determinations from the newborn population and 5 variants in 1809 determinations from adults were identified. Seven of the deficiency variants involved triosephosphate isomerase, a frequency of 0.01 in the newborn population. The average frequency of 2.4/1000 is 2-3 times the frequency observed for rare electrophoretic variants of erythrocyte enzymes in this same population.
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Rothman ED, Neel JV, Hoppe FM. Assigning a probability for paternity in apparent cases of mutation. Am J Hum Genet 1981; 33:617-28. [PMID: 6942652 PMCID: PMC1685076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Any direct estimator of mutation in a human population is subject to error due to nonpaternity. This paper deals with the quantification of this error by producing, under certain assumptions, the probability for paternity. In addition, a new direct estimator of the mutation rate is introduced.
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Neel JV, Rothman E. Is there a difference among human populations in the rate with which mutation produces electrophoretic variants? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:3108-12. [PMID: 6942419 PMCID: PMC319509 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.5.3108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Data are summarized that suggest that tropical-zone/tribal/nonindustrialized populations have higher frequencies of certain types of protein variants than temperate-zone/civilized/industrial populations, and it is demonstrated that these differences are not an artifact produced by the contagious type of sampling used with respect to tribal populations. Evidence is reviewed that suggests that a possible explanation of this difference is higher mutation rates in the tribal populations studied.
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Johnson FM, Lewis SE. Electrophoretically detected germinal mutations induced in the mouse by ethylnitrosourea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:3138-41. [PMID: 6942421 PMCID: PMC319515 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.5.3138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Male DBA/2J and C57BL/6J mice were treated with ethylnitrosourea (EtNU) at a dose of 250 mg/kg of body weight. After a sterile period of 11 weeks, the treated animals were mated with untreated females; treated DBA with C57 and treated C57 with DBA. A small control group of untreated males was established, and a larger control group from earlier experiments was also used for comparison. Tissue samples removed surgically from the parents and F1 offspring were examined by electrophoresis. Nine newly arisen mutants attributable to induction by EtNU were found in 22,512 loci tested for mutation. No mutations were encountered in 290,252 control locus tests. A preliminary study conducted concomitantly with the electrophoretic analyses for dominant lethal effects and physical malformation showed no increase over background due to EtNU treatment of spermatogonia, which suggests that mutations induced by EtNU tend not to be expressed in this way. The nature of the mutants identified by electrophoresis facilitates follow-up analyses leading to increased understanding of the molecular basis and the physiological effects of induced mutations in mammalian organisms.
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