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Variations in the Human Serum Albumin Gene: Molecular and Functional Aspects. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23031159. [PMID: 35163085 PMCID: PMC8835714 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23031159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The human albumin gene, the most abundant serum protein, is located in the long arm of chromosome 4, near the centromere, position 4q11–3. It is divided by 14 intervening introns into 15 exons, the last of which is untranslated. To date, 74 nucleotide substitutions (mainly missense) have been reported, determining the circulating variants of albumin or pre-albumin. In a heterozygous state, this condition is known as alloalbuminaemia or bisalbuminaemia (OMIM # 103600). The genetic variants are not associated with disease, neither in the heterozygous nor in the homozygous form. Only the variants resulting in familial dysalbuminaemic hyperthyroxinaemia and hypertriiodothyroninaemia are of clinical relevance because affected individuals are at risk of inappropriate treatment or may have adverse drug effects. In 28 other cases, the pathogenic variants (mainly affecting splicing, nonsense, and deletions), mostly in the homozygous form, cause a premature stop in the synthesis of the protein and lead to the condition known as congenital analbuminaemia. In this review, we will summarize the current knowledge of genetic and molecular aspects, functional consequences and potential therapeutic uses of the variants. We will also discuss the molecular defects resulting in congenital analbuminaemia, as well as the biochemical and clinical features of this rare condition
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Snapper CM. Distinct Immunologic Properties of Soluble Versus Particulate Antigens. Front Immunol 2018; 9:598. [PMID: 29619034 PMCID: PMC5871672 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Antigens in particulate form have distinct immunologic properties relative to soluble antigens. An understanding of the mechanisms and functional consequences of the distinct immunologic pathways engaged by these different forms of antigen is particularly relevant to the design of vaccines. It is also relevant regarding the use of therapeutic human proteins in clinical medicine that have been shown to aggregate, and perhaps as a result, elicit autoantibodies.
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- Clifford M Snapper
- Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Epitope imprinted polymer nanoparticles containing fluorescent quantum dots for specific recognition of human serum albumin. Mikrochim Acta 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s00604-015-1464-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Colino J, Duke L, Snapper CM. Autologous albumin enhances the humoral immune response to capsular polysaccharide covalently coattached to bacteria-sized latex beads. Eur J Immunol 2014; 44:1433-43. [PMID: 24481921 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201344266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2013] [Revised: 12/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Abundant autologous proteins, like serum albumin, should be immunologically inert. However, individuals with no apparent predisposition to autoimmune disease can develop immune responses to autologous therapeutic proteins. Protein aggregation is a potential major trigger of these responses. Adsorption of proteins to particles provides macromolecular size and may generate structural changes in the protein, resembling aggregation. Using aldehyde/sulfate latex beads coated with murine serum albumin (MSA), we found that BALB/c mice mounted MSA-specific IgG responses that were dependent on CD4(+) T cells. IgGs were specific for MSA adsorbed to solid surfaces and noncross-reactive with human, bovine, or pig albumins. T cells induced in response to MSA augmented the primary and induced boosted secondary IgG and IgM responses specific for the T cell-independent antigen, capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 14 (PPS14), when the latter was attached to the same bead. Similar to the anti-MSA IgG response, the boosted PPS14-specific IgG secondary response was CD4(+) T-cell dependent, displayed a typical carrier effect, and was enhanced by, but did not require, Toll-like receptor stimulation. These results provide a potential mechanism for the induction of responses to autoantigens unable to induce specific T-cell responses, and provide new insights into polysaccharide-specific immunity.
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- Jesus Colino
- Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Kim JY, Cheong HS, Park BL, Kim LH, Namgoong S, Kim JO, Kim HD, Kim YH, Chung MW, Han SY, Shin HD. Comprehensive variant screening of the UGT gene family. Yonsei Med J 2014; 55:232-9. [PMID: 24339312 PMCID: PMC3874916 DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2014.55.1.232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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PURPOSE UGT1A1, UGT2B7, and UGT2B15 are well-known pharmacogenes that belong to the uridine diphosphate glucuronyltransferase gene family. For personalized drug treatment, it is important to study differences in the frequency of core markers across various ethnic groups. Accordingly, we screened single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of these three genes and analyzed differences in their frequency among five ethnic groups, as well as attempted to predict the function of novel SNPs. MATERIALS AND METHODS We directly sequenced 288 subjects consisting of 96 Korean, 48 Japanese, 48 Han Chinese, 48 African American, and 48 European American subjects. Subsequently, we analyzed genetic variability, linkage disequilibrium (LD) structures and ethnic differences for each gene. We also conducted in silico analysis to predict the function of novel SNPs. RESULTS A total of 87 SNPs were detected, with seven pharmacogenetic core SNPs and 31 novel SNPs. We observed that the frequencies of UGT1A1 *6 (rs4148323), UGT1A1 *60 (rs4124874), UGT1A1 *93 (rs10929302), UGT2B7 *2 (rs7439366), a part of UGT2B7 *3 (rs12233719), and UGT2B15 *2 (rs1902023) were different between Asian and other ethnic groups. Additional in silico analysis results showed that two novel promoter SNPs of UGT1A1 -690G>A and -689A>C were found to potentially change transcription factor binding sites. Moreover, 673G>A (UGT2B7), 2552T>C, and 23269C>T (both SNPs from UGT2B15) changed amino acid properties, which could cause structural deformation. CONCLUSION Findings from the present study would be valuable for further studies on pharmacogenetic studies of personalized medicine and drug response.
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- Jason Yongha Kim
- Department of Life Science, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, Korea.
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Kragh-Hansen U, Minchiotti L, Galliano M, Peters T. Human serum albumin isoforms: genetic and molecular aspects and functional consequences. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2013; 1830:5405-17. [PMID: 23558059 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2013] [Revised: 03/21/2013] [Accepted: 03/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND At present, 67 different genetic variants of human serum albumin and proalbumin have been molecularly characterized at the protein and/or gene level. SCOPE OF REVIEW This review summarizes present knowledge about genetic and molecular aspects, functional consequences and potential uses of the variants. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS The frequency of bisalbuminemia in the general population is probably about 1:1000, but it can be much higher in isolated populations. Mutations are often due to hypermutable CpG dinucleotides, and in addition to single-amino acid substitutions, glycosylated variants and C-terminally modified alloalbumins have been found. Some mutants show altered stability in vivo and/or in vitro. High-affinity binding of Ni(++) and Cu(++) is blocked, or almost so, by amino acid changes at the N-terminus. In contrast, substitution of Leu90 and Arg242 leads to strong binding of triiodothyronine and l-thyroxine, respectively, resulting in two clinically important syndromes. Variants often have modified plasma half-lives and organ uptakes when studied in mice. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Because alloalbumins do not seem to be associated with disease, they can be used as markers of migration and provide a model for study of neutral molecular evolution. They can also give valuable molecular information about albumins binding sites, antioxidant and enzymatic properties, as well as stability. Mutants with increased affinity for endogenous or exogenous ligands could be therapeutically relevant as antidotes, both for in vivo and extracorporeal treatment. Variants with modified biodistribution could be used for drug targeting. In most cases, the desired function can be further elaborated by producing site-directed, recombinant mutants. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Serum Albumin.
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Donovan LJ, Cha SE, Yale AR, Dreikorn S, Miyamoto A. Identification of a functional proprotein convertase cleavage site in microfibril-associated glycoprotein 2. Matrix Biol 2012. [PMID: 23201136 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2012.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Microfibril-associated glycoprotein 2 (MAGP2) is a secreted protein associated with multiple cellular activities including the organization of elastic fibers in the extracellular matrix (ECM), angiogenesis, as well as regulating Notch and integrin signaling. Importantly, increases in MAGP2 positively correlate with poor prognosis for some ovarian cancers. It has been assumed that full-length MAGP2 is responsible for all reported effects; however, here we show MAGP2 is a substrate for the proprotein convertase (PC) family of endoproteases. Proteolytic processing of MAGP2 by PC cleavage could serve to regulate secretion and thus, activity and function as reported for other extracellular and cell-surface proteins. In support of this idea, MAGP2 contains an evolutionarily conserved PC consensus cleavage site, and amino acid sequencing of a newly identified MAGP2 C-terminal cleavage product confirmed functional PC cleavage. Additionally, mutagenesis of the MAGP2 PC consensus cleavage site or treatment with PC inhibitors prevented MAGP2 proteolytic processing. Finally, both cleaved and uncleaved MAGP2 were detected extracellularly and MAGP2 secretion appeared independent of PC cleavage, suggesting that PC processing occurs mainly outside the cell. Our characterization of alternative forms of MAGP2 present in the extracellular space not only enhances diversity of this ECM protein but also provides a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism for regulation of MAGP2 biological activity.
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- Lauren J Donovan
- Department of Biological Science, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States
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Human serum albumin: from bench to bedside. Mol Aspects Med 2011; 33:209-90. [PMID: 22230555 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2011.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1195] [Impact Index Per Article: 91.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2011] [Accepted: 12/21/2011] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Human serum albumin (HSA), the most abundant protein in plasma, is a monomeric multi-domain macromolecule, representing the main determinant of plasma oncotic pressure and the main modulator of fluid distribution between body compartments. HSA displays an extraordinary ligand binding capacity, providing a depot and carrier for many endogenous and exogenous compounds. Indeed, HSA represents the main carrier for fatty acids, affects pharmacokinetics of many drugs, provides the metabolic modification of some ligands, renders potential toxins harmless, accounts for most of the anti-oxidant capacity of human plasma, and displays (pseudo-)enzymatic properties. HSA is a valuable biomarker of many diseases, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, ischemia, post-menopausal obesity, severe acute graft-versus-host disease, and diseases that need monitoring of the glycemic control. Moreover, HSA is widely used clinically to treat several diseases, including hypovolemia, shock, burns, surgical blood loss, trauma, hemorrhage, cardiopulmonary bypass, acute respiratory distress syndrome, hemodialysis, acute liver failure, chronic liver disease, nutrition support, resuscitation, and hypoalbuminemia. Recently, biotechnological applications of HSA, including implantable biomaterials, surgical adhesives and sealants, biochromatography, ligand trapping, and fusion proteins, have been reported. Here, genetic, biochemical, biomedical, and biotechnological aspects of HSA are reviewed.
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Pham TTP, Oyama T, Isse T, Kawamoto T. Application of tryptophan fluorescence to assess sensitizing potentials of chemicals. ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2009; 57:427-436. [PMID: 19247567 DOI: 10.1007/s00244-009-9297-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2008] [Accepted: 02/09/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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There are too many chemical substances around our living space. However, the toxicity of most of them has not been reported, especially regarding their sensitizing potentials. We aimed to develop a simple in vitro method to quantitatively predict the sensitizing potentials of chemicals by measuring the fluorescence of chemical-human serum albumin (HSA) complexes. HSA was treated with test chemicals and then analyzed by tryptophan fluorescence and protein concentration measurement. Four commonly designated sensitizers, two possible sensitizers, and two nonsensitizers were examined using the tryptophan fluorescence assay. HSA fluorescence at 280 nm excitation and 340 nm emission was reduced by toluene 2,4-diisocyanate (TDI), dose dependently. The addition of TDI immediately reduced the fluorescence, and it was stable for 6 h to 21 days after treatment, with a slight decrease. The reduction of HSA fluorescence by chemicals was in the order: commonly designated sensitizers > possible sensitizers > nonsensitizers. Chemical treatment at 0.05 and 0.5 mM led to optimal separation among the three groups. o-Phthalaldehyde (OPA), which has not been evaluated regarding its sensitization potential by any of the authorized organizations, reduced HSA fluorescence as much as the commonly designated sensitizer at final concentrations of the chemical of 0.05 and 0.5 mM. According to our method, OPA is evaluated as a commonly designated sensitizer. The treatment of all test chemicals did not lead to marked differences in the total protein concentrations by either the Lowry or the Bradford method. The assay utilizing tryptophan fluorescence loss of HSA after chemical treatment is a promising method to evaluate the sensitizing potentials of chemicals.
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- Thi-Thu-Phuong Pham
- Department of Environmental Health, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
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Minchiotti L, Galliano M, Kragh-Hansen U, Peters T. Mutations and polymorphisms of the gene of the major human blood protein, serum albumin. Hum Mutat 2008; 29:1007-16. [PMID: 18459107 DOI: 10.1002/humu.20754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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We have tabulated the 77 currently known mutations of the familiar human blood protein, serum albumin (ALB). A total of 65 mutations result in bisalbuminemia. Physiological and structural effects of these mutations are included where observed. Most of the changes are benign. The majority of them were detected upon clinical electrophoretic studies, as a result of a point mutation of a charged amino acid residue. Three were discovered by their strong binding of thyroxine or triiodothyronine. A total of 12 of the tabulated mutations result in analbuminemia, defined as a serum albumin concentration of <1 g/L. These were generally detected upon finding a low albumin concentration in patients with mild edema, and involve either splicing errors negating translation or premature stop codons producing truncated albumin molecules. A total of nine mutations, five of those with analbuminemia and four resulting in variants modified near the C-terminal end, cause frameshifts. Allotypes from three of the point mutations become N-glycosylated and one C-terminal frameshift mutation shows O-glycosylation.
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- Lorenzo Minchiotti
- Department of Biochemistry A. Castellani, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Angouridaki C, Papageorgiou V, Tsavdaridou V, Giannousis M, Alexiou-Daniel S. Detection of hereditary bisalbuminemia in a Greek family by capillary zone electrophoresis. Hippokratia 2008; 12:119-121. [PMID: 18923658 PMCID: PMC2464307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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It is presented herein a case of a family, four members of which suffer from hereditary bisalbuminemia. The abnormality was initially detected in a 29-year old male, by serum protein electrophoresis (SPE), during the investigation for possible multiple sclerosis. SPE also revealed the presence of a double albumin band in sera of the patient's sister, father and grandmother, almost confirming the inherited (genetic) form of bisalbuminemia. Possible causes related with the acquired form of bisalbuminemia were excluded for all examined individuals. SPE was performed by both automatic capillary zone electrophoresis and agaroze gel electrophoresis. All tested samples were immunofixated with special antisera, in order to exclude the presence of monoclonal fractions. Total albumin, total proteins and immunoglobulins varied in normal ranges. The relative mobility of the albumin variant was determined by a simple mixing experiment, which gave evidence of the fast-type form of inherited bisalbuminemia. This is the first report of hereditary bisalbuminemia in Greece.
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- C Angouridaki
- Department of Immunology, Laboratory of Microbiology, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Donnelly JL, Higgins TN. Improved resolution of serum bisalbumin on electrophoresis and investigation of bisalbumin in urine. Clin Biochem 2005; 38:654-8. [PMID: 16009143 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2005.03.011] [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] [Received: 11/10/2004] [Revised: 03/10/2005] [Accepted: 03/28/2005] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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OBJECTIVES : The aims of this study were to improve the resolution of albumin variants (bisalbumins, especially albumin Naskapi) from albumin in commercial serum protein electrophoresis systems; to compare the separation of bisalbumin from albumin on these improved methods against the recognized gold standard of capillary electrophoresis; and to investigate the presence of albumin variants in urine. DESIGN AND METHODS : Electrophoresis was performed using the Sebia Hydrasys 15/30 beta1beta2 system, as well as modified methods on the Sebia Hydrasys HR and the Beckman Paragon systems. The interpretation of electrophoretic gels was performed by manual visualization and densitometric scanning. Serum samples were also analyzed using capillary electrophoresis at Sebia Electrophoresé located in Paris, France. Urine samples were concentrated using Vivaproducts concentration tubes and were electrophoresed using the Sebia Hydrasys HR system. RESULTS : Representative gels and scans of serum samples demonstrate the improved resolution of modified electrophoresis methods compared to routine methods. The raw data from the gels and scans were compiled to calculate concordance and discordance for each method. DISCUSSION : The various commercial serum protein electrophoresis systems showed improved resolution using the modified methods. In comparison with capillary electrophoresis, the modified Sebia Hydrasys HR and Beckman Paragon methods using visualization demonstrated 100% concordance and thus performed equally as well as the gold standard. Urine studies found that variant albumins are also excreted in the urine in the same 50-50 ratio as that found in the serum.
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- Jaime L Donnelly
- Chemistry Department, Dynacare Kasper Medical Laboratories, #200, 10150 102 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 5E2
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Campagnoli M, Kragh-Hansen U, Overgaard Pedersen A, Amoresano A, Lyon AW, Cesati R, Sala A, Romano A, Galliano M, Minchiotti L. Structural analysis, fatty acid and thyroxine binding properties of Vancouver and Naskapi variants of human serum albumin. Clin Biochem 2003; 36:597-605. [PMID: 14636873 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9120(03)00118-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To purify and structurally identify two albumin variants found in the Canadian population of native Amerindian origin. To assess the ability of variant albumins to bind lauric acid and L-thyroxine. METHODS The structural characterization of the alloalbumins was performed by conventional protein chemistry methods and by mass spectrometric analysis. Lauric acid and L-thyroxine affinities to variant albumins were assessed by kinetic dialysis and equilibrium dialysis techniques, respectively. RESULTS The sequence investigations proved the two variants to be albumin Naskapi [372Lys --> Glu] and albumin Vancouver [501Glu --> Lys], respectively. Among the carriers of albumin Naskapi, we found a rare case of homozygosity. Furthermore, this is the first reported case of the 501Glu-->Lys mutation in the native North American population. Scatchard plot analysis revealed that the association constants for lauric acid and L-thyroxine to the two variants were indistinguishable from the endogenous form of albumin. CONCLUSION We show that albumin variants Vancouver and Naskapi have normal fatty acid and L-thyroxine binding capabilities. These findings support the assumption that bisalbuminemias associated with these albumin variants are benign conditions.
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- Monica Campagnoli
- Department of Biochemistry A Castellani, via Taramelli 3b, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Galliano M, Campagnoli M, Rossi A, Wirsing von König CH, Lyon AW, Cefle K, Yildiz A, Palanduz S, Ozturk S, Minchiotti L. Molecular Diagnosis of Analbuminemia: A Novel Mutation Identified in Two Amerindian and Two Turkish Families. Clin Chem 2002. [DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/48.6.844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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AbstractBackground: Analbuminemia is a rare autosomal recessive disorder in which individuals have little or no circulating albumin, usually the most abundant plasma protein. We describe a new mutation associated with analbuminemia.Methods: We studied four apparently unrelated patients who had congenital analbuminemia: two of Amerindian and two of Turkish origin. The 14 exons and the flanking intron sequences of the albumin gene were amplified by PCR and screened for mutations by single-strand conformational polymorphism and heteroduplex analysis. The mutated DNA fragments were sequenced directly.Results: In all four cases, analbuminemia was caused by the same mutation, an AT deletion at nucleotides 2430–2431, the 91st and 92nd bases of exon 3. This novel defect, named Kayseri, produces a frameshift leading to a premature stop two codons downstream. The predicted translation product would consist of 54 amino acid residues.Conclusions: The AT deletion at nucleotides 2430–2431 is a novel mutation associated with analbuminemia.
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- Monica Galliano
- Department of Biochemistry “A. Castellani”, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry “A. Castellani”, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry “A. Castellani”, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre & Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, AB, T3C 0J5 Canada
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- Division of Nephrology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, 34390 Capa Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Biochemistry “A. Castellani”, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
- Department of Internal Medicine,
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Smith DG, Lorenz J, Rolfs BK, Bettinger RL, Green B, Eshleman J, Schultz B, Malhi R. Implications of the distribution of Albumin Naskapi and Albumin Mexico for new world prehistory. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2000; 111:557-72. [PMID: 10727973 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(200004)111:4<557::aid-ajpa10>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The known distributions of two mutational variants of the albumin gene that are restricted to Mexico and/or North America, Albumin Mexico (AL*Mexico) and Albumin Naskapi (AL*Naskapi), were expanded by the electrophoretic analysis of sera collected from more than 3, 500 Native Americans representing several dozen tribal groups. With a few exceptions that could be due to recent, isolated cases of admixture, AL*Naskapi is limited to groups that speak Athapaskan and Algonquian, two widely distributed language families not thought to be related, and to several linguistically unrelated groups geographically proximate to its probable ancestral homeland. Similarly, AL*Mexico is limited to groups that speak Yuman or Uto-Aztecan, two language groups in the American Southwest and Baja California not thought to be closely related to each other, and to several linguistically unrelated groups throughout Mexico. The simultaneous consideration of genetic, historical, linguistic, and archaeological evidence suggests that AL*Naskapi probably originated on the northwestern coast of North America, perhaps in some group ancestral to both Athapaskans and Algonquians, and then spread by migration and admixture to contiguous unrelated, or distantly related, tribal groups. AL*Mexico probably originated in Mexico before 3,000 years BP then spread northward along the Tepiman corridor together with cultural influences to several unrelated groups that participated in the Hohokam culture.
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- D G Smith
- Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Suzuki K, Iwata M, Ito S, Matsui K, Uchida A, Mizoi Y. Molecular basis for subtypic differences of the "a" subunit of coagulation factor XIII with description of the genesis of the subtypes. Hum Genet 1994; 94:129-35. [PMID: 7913909 DOI: 10.1007/bf00202857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The "a" subunit of human coagulation factor XIII (F13A) exhibits genetic polymorphism defined by four common alleles, F13A*1A, *1B, *2A, and *2B. We have previously suggested on the basis of the isoelectric focusing patterns of the four allele products that point mutations at two separate sites and one intragenic crossing over might be involved in the genes of F13A polymorphism. Here, we report nucleotide substitutions associated with F13A polymorphism. A C/T transition of the second nucleotide of codon 564 in exon 12 is responsible for the difference between F13A*1A and *1B and that between F13A*2A and *2B, and a set of two base changes in codons 650 and 651 in exon 14 leads to the differences between F13A*1A and *2A and those between F13A*1B and *2B. The four combinations of the point mutations at the two exons thus correspond to the four alleles, two of which were generated by the point mutations from ancestral monomorphic gene. The results suggest strongly that intragenic crossing over must be involved in the genesis of the fourth allele. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) methods discriminating these base changes in exons 12 and 14 are also presented.
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- K Suzuki
- Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Japan
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Madison J, Galliano M, Watkins S, Minchiotti L, Porta F, Rossi A, Putnam FW. Genetic variants of human serum albumin in Italy: point mutants and a carboxyl-terminal variant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:6476-80. [PMID: 8022807 PMCID: PMC44225 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.14.6476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Of the > 50 different genetic variants of human serum albumin (alloalbumins) that have been characterized by amino acid or DNA sequence analysis, almost half have been identified in Italy through a long-term electrophoretic survey of serum. Previously we have reported structural studies of 11 Italian alloalbumins with point mutations, 2 different carboxyl-terminal variants, and 1 case of analbuminemia in an Italian family. This article describes confirmation by DNA sequencing of mutations previously inferred from protein sequencing of 4 of the above alloalbumins; it also reports the mutations identified by protein and DNA sequence analysis of 4 other Italian alloalbumins not previously recorded: albumin Larino, His3-->Tyr; Tradate-2 (protein sequencing only), Lys225-->Gln; Caserta, Lys276-->Asn; and Bazzano, a carboxyl-terminal variant. The first 3 have point mutations that produce a single amino acid substitution, but a nucleotide deletion causes a frameshift and an altered and truncated carboxyl-terminal sequence in albumin Bazzano. In these 4 instances the expression of the alloalbumin is variable, ranging from 10% to 70% of the total albumiN, in contrast to the usual 50% each for the normal and mutant albumin. The distribution of point mutations in the albumin gene is nonrandom; most of the 47 reported point substitutions involve charged amino acid residues on the surface of the molecule that are not concerned with ligand-binding sites.
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- J Madison
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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- D C Carter
- Space Science Laboratory, Biophysics Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35812
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McMurry LM, Stephan M, Levy SB. Decreased function of the class B tetracycline efflux protein Tet with mutations at aspartate 15, a putative intramembrane residue. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:6294-7. [PMID: 1328154 PMCID: PMC207700 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.19.6294-6297.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The aspartate 15 residue within the first predicted intramembrane helix of the tetracycline efflux protein Tet has been conserved in four tetracycline resistance determinants from gram-negative bacteria. Its replacement in class B Tet by tyrosine, histidine, or asparagine resulted in a 60 to 85% loss of tetracycline resistance and a similar loss of tetracycline-proton antiport. The tyrosine and histidine substitutions lowered the Vmax of the efflux system by some 90% but did not alter the Km. The asparagine substitution raised the Km over 13-fold, while the Vmax was equal to or greater than that of the wild type. Therefore, although the nature of its role is unclear, aspartate 15 is important for normal Tet function.
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- L M McMurry
- Department of Molecular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
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Carlson J, Sakamoto Y, Laurell CB, Madison J, Watkins S, Putnam FW. Alloalbuminemia in Sweden: structural study and phenotypic distribution of nine albumin variants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:8225-9. [PMID: 1518850 PMCID: PMC49890 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.17.8225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Plasma samples exhibiting alloalbuminemia on electrophoresis at pH 8.6 were requested from clinical laboratories throughout Sweden. Nine variants, each representing a different single point mutation, were found in 100 apparently unrelated Swedes. The overall prevalence of alloalbuminemia was estimated at 1:1700. Mutations were identified by protein-structural analysis followed by allele-specific DNA hybridization to verify the most common types. Slightly retarded (+1) mobility was seen in 80 cases. Of these, 71 had the Arg(-2)----Cys proalbumin variant previously called Malmö I proalbumin. Thirteen examples of the second most frequent type, the substitution Lys313----Asn and a mobility change of -1 charge unit, were found, as well as six cases of Glu570----Lys (albumin B) and a single case of Arg-1----Gln (proalbumin Christchurch). Five previously unreported types of alloalbuminemia were identified: four instances of Glu376----Gln, which is the second known mutation at this site; two examples of Asp550----Ala, the second mutation reported at this site; and one example each of Asp63----Asn, Gln268----Arg, and Asn318----Lys. Other mutations were identified among eight subjects of foreign descent. The high frequency and relatively uniform geographic distribution of the Arg-2----Cys mutation suggest that it may have occurred in a founder individual many generation ago in Sweden.
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- J Carlson
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden
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Madison J, Arai K, Sakamoto Y, Feld RD, Kyle RA, Watkins S, Davis E, Matsuda Y, Amaki I, Putnam FW. Genetic variants of serum albumin in Americans and Japanese. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:9853-7. [PMID: 1946412 PMCID: PMC52819 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.21.9853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A collaborative search for albumin genetic variants (alloalbumins) was undertaken by cellulose acetate and agarose electrophoresis at pH 8.6 of the sera of patients at two major medical centers in the United States and of nearly 20,000 blood donors in Japan. Seventeen instances of alloalbuminemia were ascertained, and seven different alloalbumin types were characterized by structural study. Two previously unreported alloalbumin types were identified. In one type, which was present in a Caucasian family and designated Iowa City-1, aspartic acid at position 365 was replaced by valine (365 Asp----Val); this is the second reported mutation at this position. The other type present in a Japanese blood donor had the mutation 128 His----Arg. An unexpected finding was the presence in a single Japanese of a Naskapi-type alloalbumin (372 Lys----Glu), a variant that had previously been described only for certain Amerindian tribes in whom it occurs with a polymorphic frequency (greater than 1%) and in Eti Turks. An arginyl-albumin (-1 Arg, 1 Asp----Val) occurred in an American family. The other alloalbumin types identified were proalbumins Lille and Christchurch and albumin B that have a cumulative frequency of about 1:3500 in Caucasians probably because of the hypermutability of CpG dinucleotides at the mutated sites. All of the variants characterized in this study are point mutants, and the sites are spread throughout the albumin gene. However, about one-fourth of all known albumin mutations are clustered in the sequence segment from position 354 through 382.
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- J Madison
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Watkins S, Madison J, Davis E, Sakamoto Y, Galliano M, Minchiotti L, Putnam FW. A donor splice mutation and a single-base deletion produce two carboxyl-terminal variants of human serum albumin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:5959-63. [PMID: 2068071 PMCID: PMC52001 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.14.5959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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At least 35 allelic variants of human serum albumin have been sequenced at the protein level. All except two COOH-terminal variants, Catania and Venezia, are readily explainable as single-point substitutions. The two chain-termination variants are clustered in certain locations in Italy and are found in numerous unrelated individuals. In order to correlate the protein change in these variants with the corresponding DNA mutation, the two variant albumin genes have been cloned, sequenced, and compared to normal albumin genomic DNA. In the Catania variant, a single base deletion and subsequent frameshift leads to a shortened and altered COOH terminus. Albumin Venezia is caused by a mutation that alters the first consensus nucleotide of the 5' donor splice junction of intron 14 and the 3' end of exon 14, which is shortened from 68 to 43 base pairs. This change leads to an exon skipping event resulting in direct splicing of exon 13 to exon 15. The predicted Venezia albumin product has a truncated amino acid sequence (580 residues instead of 585), and the COOH-terminal sequence is altered after Glu-571. The variant COOH terminus ends with the dibasic sequence Arg-Lys that is apparently removed through stepwise cleavage by serum carboxypeptidase B to yield several forms of circulating albumin.
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- S Watkins
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Oliver R, Green B. The application of electrospray mass spectrometry to the characterisation of abnormal or variant haemoglobins. Trends Analyt Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0165-9936(91)85077-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Galliano M, Minchiotti L, Porta F, Rossi A, Ferri G, Madison J, Watkins S, Putnam FW. Mutations in genetic variants of human serum albumin found in Italy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:8721-5. [PMID: 2247440 PMCID: PMC55031 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.22.8721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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A long-term electrophoretic survey of genetic variants of serum albumin has identified an alloalbumin in 589 unrelated individuals in Italy. The alloalbumins were classified electrophoretically into 17 types. The number of unrelated carriers for each type varied from 1 for several variants reported here to 103 for albumin B. The structural change in 8 of these types has previously been determined, and the amino acid substitutions in 3 additional types are reported here. Albumin Varese has a substitution, -2 arginine to histidine (-2 Arg----His), the same as that reported for proalbumin Lille; albumin Torino has the substitution 60 Glu----Lys; and albumin Vibo Valentia has the substitution 82 Glu----Lys. The ability to distinguish so many alloalbumin types by electrophoresis at several pH values indicates that similar substitutions at different sites produce variants with different electrophoretic mobilities. Except for chain terminations in two Italian variants, all the mutations thus far determined for alloalbumins are attributable to a single-base change in the structural gene, and there is a preponderance of transitions and purine mutations. Seven alloalbumins for which the structural change has been established have been ascertained only in Italy. Several of these are clustered in specific geographic regions of Italy, which suggests an origin through a founder individual. Other variants that occur worldwide are nonetheless clustered in geographic regions within Italy. In these cases an independent mutation probably occurred at a hypermutable site such as a CpG dinucleotide.
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- M Galliano
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Italy
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Brennan SO, Arai K, Madison J, Laurell CB, Galliano M, Watkins S, Peach R, Myles T, George P, Putnam FW. Hypermutability of CpG dinucleotides in the propeptide-encoding sequence of the human albumin gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:3909-13. [PMID: 2339130 PMCID: PMC54013 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.10.3909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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An electrophoretically slow albumin variant was detected with a phenotype frequency of about 1:1000 in Sweden and was also found in a family of Scottish descent from Kaikoura, New Zealand, and in five families in Tradate, Italy. Structural study established that the major variant component was arginyl-albumin, in which arginine at the -1 position of the propeptide is still attached to the processed albumin. A minor component with the amino-terminal sequence of proalbumin was also present as 3-6% of the total albumin. After amplification of the gene segment encoding the prepro sequence of albumin, specific hybridization of DNA to an oligonucleotide probe encoding cysteine at position -2 indicated the mutation of arginine at the -2 position to cysteine (-2 Arg----Cys). This produced the propeptide sequence Arg-Gly-Val-Phe-Cys-Arg. This was confirmed by sequence analysis after pyridylethylation of the cysteine. This mutation produces an alternate signal peptidase cleavage site in the variant proalbumin precursor of arginyl-albumin giving rise to two possible products, arginyl-albumin and the variant proalbumin. Another plasma from Bremen had an alloalbumin with a previously described substitution (1 Asp----Val), which also affects propeptide cleavage. Hypermutability of two CpG dinucleotides in the codons for the diarginyl sequence may account for the frequency of mutations in the propeptide. Mutation at these two sites results in a series of recurrent proalbumin variants that have arisen independently in diverse populations.
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- S O Brennan
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand
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Savva D, Tárnoky AL, Vickers MF. Genetic characterization of an alloalbumin, albumin Kashmir, using gene amplification and allele-specific oligonucleotides. Biochem J 1990; 266:615-7. [PMID: 2317208 PMCID: PMC1131176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The molecular basis for albumin Kashmir was studied using the polymerase chain reaction to amplify a DNA fragment containing codon 501 in exon 12 of the human albumin gene. Southern blots of the amplified DNA were hybridized to oligonucleotide probes specific either for the normal allele of albumin or for albumin Kashmir. The results provide strong evidence that codon 501 in albumin Kashmir is AAG (lysine) instead of GAG (glutamic acid), thus confirming the protein sequences reported. This approach was used to characterize a bisalbuminaemic individual as a carrier for albumin Kashmir. Similar strategies may be devised to study the molecular basis and to identify carriers of other alloalbumins.
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- D Savva
- Department of Biochemistry & Physiology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, U.K
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Despite their rarity and physiologically neutral character, more inherited structural variants of serum albumin (alloalbumins) are known than for any other human protein except hemoglobin. Including three previously unreported examples described here, we have identified 13 different point substitutions in alloalbumins of Japanese origin. Of these only albumin B and two proalbumins have been reported in other ethnic groups, and these are the most common variants of European origin. Some alloalbumins of Asiatic origin, but not yet identified in Japanese, are present in diverse ethnic groups. An alloalbumin found in indigenes of New Guinea (lysine----asparagine at position 313) is also present in Caucasians of various European descents. Albumin Lambadi, occurring in a tribal group in south India, has a mutation (glutamic acid----lysine at position 501) also found as a rare variant in individuals of diverse ethnic origin resident on four continents. These results suggest that some alloalbumins with the same substitution may have originated by independent mutations in various populations. This, together with the apparent clustering of point substitutions in the protein structure, may reflect hypermutability of the albumin gene.
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Arai K, Madison J, Huss K, Ishioka N, Satoh C, Fujita M, Neel JV, Sakurabayashi I, Putnam FW. Point substitutions in Japanese alloalbumins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:6092-6. [PMID: 2762316 PMCID: PMC297781 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.16.6092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We have completed the structural study of five rare types of inherited albumin variants (alloalbumins) discovered in the Biochemical Genetics Study of 15,581 unrelated children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We have also identified the structural change in five other alloalbumin specimens detected during clinical electrophoresis of sera from Japanese living near Tokyo. Each of the five albumin variants from Nagasaki and Hiroshima has a single amino acid substitution. All of these substitutions differ, and none has been reported in non-Japanese populations. No instances of proalbumin variants or of albumin B (the most frequent alloalbumins in Caucasians) were detected in the children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, one instance of a variant proalbumin and two examples of albumin B occurred in Japanese from the vicinity of Tokyo. In addition a previously unreported point substitution was found in albumin Tochigi, which is present in two unrelated persons from Tochigi prefecture. Four of the point mutations in the Japanese alloalbumins are in close proximity in a short segment of the polypeptide chain (residues 354-382) in which three additional point substitutions have been reported in diverse populations. These results, combined with earlier data, suggest that point substitutions are grouped in certain segments of the albumin molecule.
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- K Arai
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Arai K, Huss K, Madison J, Putnam FW, Salzano FM, Franco MH, Santos SE, Freitas MJ. Amino acid substitutions in albumin variants found in Brazil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:1821-5. [PMID: 2564675 PMCID: PMC286796 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.6.1821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Conventional horizontal starch-gel electrophoresis in four buffer systems and structural studies were performed on four albumin variants, and the findings were compared with similar previous data. Albumins Coari I and Porto Alegre I have a previously unreported amino acid substitution (glutamic acid replaced by lysine at position 358, denoted 358 Glu----Lys). The alteration in albumin Porto Alegre II (501 Glu----Lys) is the same as that found for three alloalbumins of Asiatic origin, designated Vancouver, Birmingham, and Adana. Albumin Oriximiná I has the same exchange as albumin Maku (541 Lys----Glu). Some of these findings can be explained only by the occurrence of independent mutations at the same site in the albumin gene. They also point to a third cluster of mutations in that gene, indicating hypermutability in some of its segments.
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- K Arai
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Arai K, Ishioka N, Huss K, Madison J, Putnam FW. Identical structural changes in inherited albumin variants from different populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:434-8. [PMID: 2911589 PMCID: PMC286484 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.2.434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Alloalbuminemia is rare and has a cumulative frequency of only approximately 1 in 3,000 in Europeans and Japanese. The worldwide ethnic and geographic distribution of certain albumin genetic variants appears to be nonrandom. Moreover, we have found that structurally identical variants may occur at different frequencies in ethnically distinct populations, presumably owing to independent mutations. In this study, albumin B and two types of proalbumins, which as a group are the most common European albumin variants, have also been found in Asians. We have identified the amino acid substitution characteristic of albumin B (glutamic acid----lysine at position 570) in alloalbumins from six unrelated individuals of five different European descents and also in two Japanese and one Cambodian. The two types of proalbumins most common in Europe (Lille type, arginine----histidine at position -2; Christchurch type, arginine----glutamic acid at position -1) also occur in Japan. These results provide evidence for independent mutations at single sites in the albumin genome. The clustering of these and of several other amino acid exchanges in certain regions of the albumin molecule suggests two possibilities: that certain sites are hypermutable or that mutants involving certain sites are more subject to selection than mutants involving others.
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- K Arai
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Five myoglobins (sperm whale, Sei whale, Hubbs' beaked whale, pilot whale, and Amazon River dolphin) were examined using two-dimensional electrophoresis. Previous reports indicated that none of these proteins could be separated by using denaturing (in the presence of 8-9 M urea) isoelectric focusing. This result is confirmed in the present study. However, all the proteins could be separated by using denaturing nonequilibrium pH-gradient electrophoresis in the first dimension. Additionally, all the myoglobins have characteristic mobilities in the second dimension (sodium dodecyl sulfate), but these mobilities do not correspond to the molecular weights of the proteins. We conclude that two-dimensional electrophoresis can be more sensitive to differences in primary protein structure than previous studies indicate and that the assessment seems to be incorrect that this technique can separate only proteins that have a unit charge difference.
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- G S Spicer
- Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois 60439
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The separation of whale myoglobins with two-dimensional electrophoresis. Biochem Genet 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/pl00020503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Huss K, Madison J, Ishioka N, Takahashi N, Arai K, Putnam FW. The same substitution, glutamic acid----lysine at position 501, occurs in three alloalbumins of Asiatic origin: albumins Vancouver, Birmingham, and Adana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:6692-6. [PMID: 2901102 PMCID: PMC282043 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.18.6692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A strategy is described for identifying structural changes in genetic variants of human serum albumin (alloalbumins). By use of this strategy we have determined an amino acid substitution in three alloalbumins of Asiatic origin. The same amino acid exchange, glutamic acid----lysine at position 501, occurs in albumins Vancouver and Birmingham, both from families that migrated from northern India, and also in albumin Adana from Turkey. This exchange corresponds to a single base mutation in the codon GAG to AAG and accords with the slow mobility of the three albumins at pH 8.6. Each of the three alloalbumins had been reported to be a new variant, yet they have the same substitution. These results emphasize the need for structural study of genetic variants that have been differentiated only by nonspecific physical criteria such as dye binding and electrophoretic mobility. We know of no other description of the substitution involved in an alloalbumin originating from the Indian subcontinent. However, the same change of glutamic acid----lysine at position 501 may be present in several other named variants reported for populations in north India and the surrounding regions.
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- K Huss
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Schell LM, Blumberg BS. Alloalbuminemia and the migrations of native Americans. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1988. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330310503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Takahashi N, Takahashi Y, Isobe T, Putnam FW, Fujita M, Satoh C, Neel JV. Amino acid substitutions in inherited albumin variants from Amerindian and Japanese populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:8001-5. [PMID: 3479777 PMCID: PMC299464 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.22.8001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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We report an effort to determine the basis for the altered migration of seven inherited albumin variants detected by one-dimensional electrophoresis in population surveys involving tribal Amerindians and Japanese children. An amino acid substitution has thus far been determined for four of the variants. The randomness in the albumin polypeptide of these and the other sixteen independently ascertained amino acid substitutions of albumin and proalbumin thus far established was analyzed; the clustering of eight of these at two positions in the six-amino acid propeptide sequence seems noteworthy. By comparison with other proteins studied by electrophoresis, albumin exhibits "average" variability. It is a paradox that individuals who, for genetic reasons, lack albumin exhibit no obvious ill effects; yet, electrophoretic variants of albumin are no more numerous than are variants of proteins, the absence of which results in severe disease.
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- N Takahashi
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Takahashi N, Takahashi Y, Putnam FW. Structural changes and metal binding by proalbumins and other amino-terminal genetic variants of human serum albumin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:7403-7. [PMID: 3478700 PMCID: PMC299304 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.21.7403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Proalbumins are rare genetic variants of human serum albumin containing a basic propeptide that is not removed during post-transcriptional processing because of a mutation in the site of excision, an Arg-Arg sequence. We have identified the amino acid substitutions in three different types of proalbumins designated Gainesville, Taipei, and Takefu. The first two proalbumins are identical to previously described proalbumins of the Christchurch and Lille types, respectively, and exhibit the characteristic properties of susceptibility to tryptic cleavage and of lower metal-binding affinity. Takefu is a third type of proalbumin and resists tryptic cleavage because of the substitution Arg-1----Pro. Each of the first two types of proalbumins has been identified in geographically separate, ethnically diverse populations and therefore must have arisen by independent mutations. There is some tendency for mutations in albumin to cluster in the propeptide sequence. Although the substitution His3----Gln in the genetic variant albumin Nagasaki-3 decreases metal-binding affinity, mutations further down the polypeptide chain have no such effect, nor is there any reduction of copper-binding affinity in albumin from patients with Wilson disease.
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- N Takahashi
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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