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Xia CH, Cheng C, Huang Q, Cheung D, Li L, Dunia I, Benedetti LE, Horwitz J, Gong X. Absence of alpha3 (Cx46) and alpha8 (Cx50) connexins leads to cataracts by affecting lens inner fiber cells. Exp Eye Res 2006; 83:688-96. [PMID: 16696970 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2005] [Revised: 03/09/2006] [Accepted: 03/21/2006] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Lens development and transparency have been hypothesized to depend on intercellular gap junction channels, consisting of alpha3 (Cx46) and alpha8 (Cx50) connexin subunits, to transport metabolites, secondary messages and ions between lens cells. To evaluate this hypothesis, we have generated alpha3(-/-) alpha8(-/-) double knockout mice and characterized their lens phenotypes. Without gap junctions between lens fiber cells, alpha3(-/-) alpha8(-/-) lenses displayed severe cataracts resulting from cell swelling and degeneration of inner fibers while normal peripheral fiber cells continued to form throughout life. Neither an increase of degraded crystallins nor an increase of water-insoluble crystallins was found in alpha3(-/-) alpha8(-/-) lenses. However, a substantial reduction of gamma-crystallin proteins, but not alpha- and beta-crystallins, was detected. These results suggest that gap junction communication is important for maintaining lens homeostasis of inner fiber cells and that a loss of gap junctions leads to cataract formation as well as reductions of gamma-crystallin proteins and transcripts.
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- Chun-hong Xia
- School of Optometry and Vision Science Program, University of California at Berkeley, 693 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020, USA
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Eiberg H, Lund AM, Warburg M, Rosenberg T. Assignment of congenital cataract Volkmann type (CCV) to chromosome 1p36. Hum Genet 1995; 96:33-8. [PMID: 7607651 DOI: 10.1007/bf00214183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Congenital cataract, type Volkmann (McKusick no 115665, gene symbol CCV) is an autosomal dominant eye disease. The disease is characterized by a progressive, central and zonular cataract, with opacities both in the embryonic, fetal and juvenile nucleus and around the anterior and posterior Y-suture. We examined blood samples from 91 members of a Danish pedigree comprising 426 members, by using highly informative short tandem repeat polymorphisms and found the closest linkage of the disease gene (CCV) to a (CA)n dinucleotide repeat polymorphism at locus D1S243 (Zmax = 14.04 at theta M = 0.025 theta F = 0.000), at a penetrance of 0.90. Using two additional chromosome 1 markers, we were able to map the CCV gene in the sequence 1pter-(CCV, D1S243)-D1S468-D1S214. The (enolase 1) gene has been mapped to this area; however, a mutation described in this gene did not give eye disease.
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- H Eiberg
- University Institute of Medical Biochemistry & Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics B24.4, Danish Centre for Genome Research, Copenhagen
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Pietrowski D, Durante MJ, Liebstein A, Schmitt-John T, Werner T, Graw J. Alpha-crystallins are involved in specific interactions with the murine gamma D/E/F-crystallin-encoding gene. Gene 1994; 144:171-8. [PMID: 8039702 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90375-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The promoter of the murine gamma E-crystallin (gamma E-Cry) encoding gene (gamma E-cry) was analyzed for specific interactions with lenticular proteins in a gel-retardation assay. A 21-bp fragment immediately downstream of the transcription initiation site (DOTIS) is demonstrated to be responsible for specific interactions with lens extracts. The DOTIS-binding protein(s) accept only the sense DNA strand as target; anti-sense or double-stranded DNA do not interact with these proteins. The DOTIS sequence element is highly conserved among the murine gamma D-, gamma E- and gamma F-cry and is present at comparable positions in the orthologous rat genes. Only a weak or even no protein-binding activity is observed if a few particular bases are changed, as in the rat gamma A-, gamma C- and gamma E-cry elements. DOTIS-binding proteins were found in commercially available bovine alpha-Cry preparations. The essential participation of alpha-Cry in the DNA-binding protein complex was confirmed using alpha-Cry-specific monoclonal antibody. The results reported here point to a novel function of alpha-Cry besides the structural properties in the lens.
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- D Pietrowski
- GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Institut für Säugetiergenetik, Neuherberg, Germany
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Mura CV, Roh S, Smith D, Palmer V, Padhye N, Taylor A. Cataract incidence and analysis of lens crystallins in the water-, urea- and SDS-soluble fractions of Emory mice fed a diet restricted by 40% in calories. Curr Eye Res 1993; 12:1081-91. [PMID: 8137632 DOI: 10.3109/02713689309033506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Restriction of dietary calorie intake is associated with life extension and with the delay of age-related disorders. Preliminary studies demonstrated that by feeding the Emory mouse a diet restricted by 21% in calories cataract and insolubilization of protein could also be delayed. To observe the effects of calorie restriction over prolonged portions of adulthood, Emory mice were fed the control diet (C) or a diet restricted by 40% in calories (R). Feeding the R diet was associated with delayed formation or progress of cataract over virtually the entire second half of life. At 11 months of age, bilateral grade 5 cataracts were present in 17% and 2% of C and R lenses, respectively. At 22 months of age, bilateral grade 5 cataracts were present in 90% and 18% of C and R lenses, respectively. The distribution of alpha-, beta-, and gamma- crystallins in the water-soluble, urea-soluble, and SDS-soluble fractions indicates more similarities than differences between C and R lenses with a specific grade of cataract or of a given age. However, there were significant and abrupt (after grade 4 cataract) losses of particular gamma-crystallins; gamma-crystallins which were not prominent at earlier stages became the major gamma-crystallin moieties. Losses of alpha-crystallins were also noted upon cataract formation or aging in most of the fractions. Aggregates including gamma- and alpha-crystallins also accumulate faster in the C group.
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- C V Mura
- Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111
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Shiels A, Griffin CS. Aberrant expression of the gene for lens major intrinsic protein in the CAT mouse. Curr Eye Res 1993; 12:913-21. [PMID: 8293667 DOI: 10.3109/02713689309020398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Immunocytochemistry fails to detect expression of the lens major intrinsic protein (MIP) in 16-day embryos of the congenitally cataractous mouse, CAT, which inherits a dominant mutation assigned to the distal end of mouse chromosome 10. In situ hybridisation, however, detects MIP mRNA in CAT embryo lens fibre cells at a level approximating 60% of that detected in embryonic lens fibres of the non-cataractous MF1 mouse. Northern blot hybridisation reveals that the most abundant MIP mRNA transcript in the adult CAT lens is truncated when compared to that in the adult MF1 lens. The results are consistent with a cataractogenic mutation in the mouse gene for MIP (Mip) which has also been mapped to the distal end of mouse chromosome 10.
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- A Shiels
- Department of Haematology, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK
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Lund AM, Eiberg H, Rosenberg T, Warburg M. Autosomal dominant congenital cataract; linkage relations; clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Clin Genet 1992; 41:65-9. [PMID: 1544213 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1992.tb03634.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Congenital cataract is a heterogeneous disorder. Approximately one third of the cases are hereditary. A large family with autosomal dominant congenital cataract is described here. Clinical examinations showed variable expressivity, but all affected persons were eventually operated, most of them in the first or second decade of life. Linkage relations with a number of polymorphic marker systems were studied, all of them being negative. Among the 21 systems studied were Fy, HP, D16S4 and CRYG. The present autosomal dominant congenital cataract is termed the Volkman cataract, after the ancestor in the pedigree, and is genotypically different from the Marner cataract found in another large Danish pedigree.
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- A M Lund
- Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Handicaps, Gentofte Hospital, Denmark
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Shiels A, Griffin CS, Muggleton-Harris AL. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms associated with the gene for the major intrinsic protein of eye-lens fibre cell membranes in mice with hereditary cataracts. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1097:81-5. [PMID: 1677593 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4439(91)90028-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Cloned cDNAs coding for eye-lens fibre cell-membrane proteins, MIP and MP70, were used to detect restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in genomic DNA from inbred mice with autosomally inherited cataracts. Whereas distinct RFLPs associated with the MIP gene were identified in the Cba Cat and Nct mutants, no such genetic variation was associated with the MP70 gene. RFLPs associated with the mouse MIP gene may provide informative DNA markers in gene linkage studies of murine hereditary cataracts.
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- A Shiels
- Department of Haematology, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, U.K
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Haloui Z, Pujol JP, Galera P, Courtois Y, Laurent M. Analysis of lens protein synthesis in a cataractous mutant mouse: the Cat Fraser. Exp Eye Res 1990; 51:487-94. [PMID: 2249725 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(90)90078-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The cataract produced by the dominant Cat Fraser gene in mouse is associated with quantitative changes in lens proteins (crystallin) and with capsule abnormalities. We have analyzed and compared the protein synthesis in control and mutant lenses using [3H]leucine and [3H]proline incorporation. The specific activities of free [3H]leucine in the intracellular pools of the two mouse strains were identical, while the incorporation of both labelled amino acids in proteins was largely increased in Cat Fraser lens. These data indicate that the higher labelling of Cat Fraser lens proteins reflects a true change in the cellular synthesis activity by Cat Fraser lens cells. Despite the enhanced type IV collagen synthesis by Cat Fraser epithelial cells, the amount of type IV collagen in Cat Fraser capsule is lower than in control. This altered type-IV collagen metabolism may disturb the structure of Cat Fraser capsule which becomes thicker.
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- Z Haloui
- Unité de Recherches Gérontologiques, INSERM U.118, CNRS UA 630, Association Claude Bernard, Paris, France
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Bodker FS, Lavery MA, Mitchell TN, Lovrien EW, Maumenee IH. Microphthalmos in the presumed homozygous offspring of a first cousin marriage and linkage analysis of a locus in a family with autosomal dominant cerulean congenital cataracts. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1990; 37:54-9. [PMID: 2240043 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320370113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A family with autosomal dominant congenital cataracts was studied to determine clinical variability. A total of 159 relatives was ascertained; 17 affected and 19 normal individuals were evaluated and their blood sampled for inclusion in the linkage analysis. The disease was compatible with normal to mildly decreased visual acuity until adult life in all affected except the product of a consanguineous marriage of affected first cousins who was born with bilateral microphthalmos and dense congenital cataracts, attributed to homozygosity of the cataract gene. There were no extraocular abnormalities; the patient was of normal intelligence. Twenty-three markers were typed, 18 of which were informative. Linkage could be excluded for all 18 markers at short distances.
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- F S Bodker
- Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Borrás T, Jörnvall H, Rodokanaki A, Gonzalez P, Rodriguez I, Hernandez-Calzadilla C. The transcripts of zeta-crystallin, a lens protein related to the alcohol dehydrogenase family, are altered in a guinea-pig hereditary cataract. Exp Eye Res 1990; 50:729-35. [PMID: 1695576 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(90)90122-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Zeta-Crystallin, a major component of the guinea-pig lens proteins, is distantly related to the enzymes of the zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenase family (ADH). Analysis of the structural similarities between zeta-crystallin and ADH reveals that while characteristics important in maintaining the tertiary structure of the molecule appear conserved, the amino acids binding the catalytic zinc atom are absent in zeta-crystallin. Significantly, zeta-crystallin does not have ADH activity. Previous studies showed that the zeta-crystallin protein is modified in the lens of guinea-pigs affected with an autosomal dominant hereditary cataract. We have further investigated the molecular origin of the lens defect by examining the steady-state levels of zeta-crystallin transcripts in normal and mutant eyes. Our data indicate that no normal zeta-crystallin mRNA is present in the lens of the homozygous animals; instead, a cross-hybridizing lower molecular weight mRNA is detected at significantly reduced concentrations. Heterozygous lenses exhibit both mRNA species.
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- T Borrás
- Laboratory of Mechanisms of Ocular Diseases, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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The increasing use of animal models in the study of cataract has been one of the most important trends in lens research over the last two decades. The number of animal models available for both hereditary congenital cataracts and for maturity-onset cataracts has grown substantially during this time. Analysis of some of these systems by biochemical and molecular biology techniques has resulted in significant and often surprising insights into the basic biology of the lens, as well as the process of cataractogenesis. The following is a brief overview of those animal models for which biochemical studies have been reported.
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- J S Zigler
- Laboratory of Mechanisms of Ocular Disease, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Graw J, Werner T, Merkle S, Reitmeir P, Schäffer E, Wulff A. Histological and biochemical characterization of the murine cataract mutant Nop. Exp Eye Res 1990; 50:449-56. [PMID: 2373148 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(90)90031-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Nop, a spontaneous murine dominant cataract mutation, was detected by slit lamp investigations and preliminary characterized as a nuclear opacity. Histological investigations confirmed these findings and revealed additionally polar cataracts with vacuolization. In contrast to wild-type lenses, the nuclei of the cortical cells could also be detected in the area of the lens nucleus in Nop lenses. No other pathological alterations were found in the eyes. Lens wet and dry weights, as well as the content of water-soluble lens proteins, were reduced in heterozygous and homozygous mutants. The body weight was only slightly altered, indicating a rather lens-specific growth retardation. Some parameters concerning the osmotic state of the lens were changed, however, only in the homozygous mutants. Electrophoresis of the water-soluble lens proteins of the mutants revealed either additional bands, not present in the wild types, or bands of overrepresented proteins only slightly present in wild-type lenses. The changes might be related to the reduced amount of gamma-crystallins, which alters the composition of lenticular proteins in the mutants. Northern blots probed with cDNA specific for alpha-, beta- or gamma-crystallin genes suggested a reduced transcription of the gamma-crystallin genes. In contrast, the transcription of alpha- and beta-crystallins appeared to be similar in wild type and the mutants. The selective reduced amount of gamma-crystallin specific RNA can be discussed as a biochemical indicator for the histologically observed changes of differentiation in the cataractous Nop lenses.
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- J Graw
- GSF-Institut für Säugetiergenetik, Neuherberg, F.R.G
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Masaki S, Watanabe T. Suppression of lens gamma-crystallin encoded by Len-1 in the mutant mouse with eye lens obsolescence (Elo). Exp Eye Res 1988; 47:727-35. [PMID: 3197773 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(88)90040-1] [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: 01/04/2023]
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Eye lens obsolescence (Elo) is a heritable, autosomal dominant eye disorder in mice. The Elo mutation lies close to the Len-1 locus on mouse chromosome 1, and it was speculated that the Elo locus affects the expression level of gamma-crystallin. To clarify this, we used the BASO-DALT system to compare the amount of lens gamma-crystallin between Elo and normal mice. The lens extracts from 10-day-old Elo mice revealed the same profiles and expression levels of alpha- and beta-crystallins as those of +/+ mice. Among gamma-crystallins, the amounts of the components encoded by Len-1 were lower than wild-type levels, but that encoded by Len-2 was not in the Elo mouse. NaDodSO4-gel analysis revealed that the lower gamma-crystallin level could be detected as early as the 14-day stage in the lens of the Elo mouse embryo. The suppression of gamma-crystallin gene expression in Elo mice was examined at the mRNA level. The concentration of gamma 2-crystallin mRNA in Elo mice lens was estimated at 1/13 of that of normal lens, indicating that a small amount of transcript production from gamma-crystallin genes may cause the low level of gamma-crystallin in Elo lens.
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- S Masaki
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Prefecture Colony, Japan
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Kuliszewski M, Rupert J, Gold R. The ontogeny of gamma-crystallin mRNAs in CatFraser mice. Genet Res (Camb) 1988; 52:45-9. [PMID: 3181759 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300027294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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SummaryMice which are either homozygous or heterozygous for the CatFraser mutation have ocular cataracts accompanied by selective reduction of the γ-crystallins, a homologous family of proteins present in the lens and encoded by a family of tightly linked genes. We measured the concentrations of four different mRNAs, each encoding a different γ-crystallin, in the lenses of homozygous CatFraser mice and in normal controls at various stages of development by preparing Northern blots from lens RNA, probing with RNAs complementary to each of the four messages and densitometry of the bands thus generated. The results show that, for each of these messages, the ontogenetic patterns observed in normal mice are retained in the mutant, but at much lower concentrations.
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Haloui Z, Jeanny JC, Jonet L, Courtois Y, Laurent M. Immunochemical analysis of extracellular matrix during embryonic lens development of the Cat Fraser mouse. Exp Eye Res 1988; 46:463-74. [PMID: 3289954 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4835(88)80004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We have characterized the extracellular matrix present during early mouse-lens morphogenesis in Swiss and Cat Fraser mutant mice which produces a thicker capsule. In the two mouse strains, laminin was first detected when the optic vesicle and the head ectoderm are closely associated. At day 10, staining for laminin and fibronectin is especially concentrated at the border of the lens pit. At this stage, type IV collagen and proteoheparan sulphate have a similar distribution to laminin and fibronectin. In the two mouse strains, no major differences were observed in the intensity and the distribution of fluorescent basement-membrane components. This suggests that the overall increase in capsule thickness of the Cat Fraser mutant is more related to an increased cellular synthesis of capsule than to an abnormal distribution of one or more basement-membrane macromolecules.
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- Z Haloui
- INSERM U 118, CNRS UA 630, Association Claude Bernard, Paris, France
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Barrett DJ, Sparkes RS, Gorin MB, Bhat SP, Spence MA, Marazita ML, Bateman JB. Genetic linkage analysis of autosomal dominant congenital cataracts with lens-specific DNA probes and polymorphic phenotypic markers. Ophthalmology 1988; 95:538-44. [PMID: 3174013 DOI: 10.1016/s0161-6420(88)33153-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The authors studied a four-generation family with autosomal dominant congenital cataracts (ADCCs) using linkage analysis with 23 polymorphic phenotypic markers and DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) detected by lens-specific DNA probes. A total of 19 family members were studied and the ten affected members had embryonal lens opacities. Close linkage was rejected with DNA probes encoding beta-crystallin, gamma-crystallin, and the major intrinsic protein of the lens fiber membrane (MIP) excluding defects of these genes as the cause of the cataract in this family. No statistically significant lod scores were produced with the polymorphic phenotypic markers. These results support the genetic heterogeneity of ADCCs.
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- D J Barrett
- Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine 90024-1771
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Rupert JL, Kuliszewki M, Tsui LC, Breitman ML, Gold RJ. The murine cataractogenic mutation, Cat Fraser, segregates independently of the gamma crystallin genes. Genet Res (Camb) 1988; 51:23-8. [PMID: 3366376 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300023909] [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: 01/05/2023] Open
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SummaryThe murine mutation, Cat Fraser (CatFr), causes dominantly inherited ocular cataracts. Lenses of adult mice bearing this mutation contain reduced amounts of all seven γ-crystallin proteins and their corresponding transcripts. Levels of other lens proteins and transcripts appear normal and no extra-ocular effects of the mutation have been observed. The selective effect of this mutation on the γ-crystallins is consistent with the possibility that the site at which it occurs is involved in the coordinated regulation of the family of genes which encodes them. We have shown that several restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the γ-crystallin genes segregate independently of the CatFr mutation. Therefore, despite its selective effect on the expression of the γ-crystallin genes, the mutation is not linked to them. This observation rules out the possibility that the mutation is in a cis-acting regulatory site.
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Cooper DN, Jay M, Bhattacharya S, Jay B. Molecular genetic approaches to the analysis of human ophthalmic disease. Eye (Lond) 1987; 1 ( Pt 6):699-721. [PMID: 3331606 DOI: 10.1038/eye.1987.114] [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: 01/05/2023] Open
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In this review of the recent literature, the contribution that the new techniques of molecular genetics has made in the analysis and diagnosis of human ophthalmic conditions is presented and discussed. Among the disorders reviewed are X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, Norrie's disease, gyrate atrophy and retinoblastoma, and there are also sections on crystallins and visual pigments.
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- D N Cooper
- Haematology Department, King's College Hospital School of Medicine, Denmark Hill, London
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Muggleton-Harris AL, Festing MF, Hall M. A gene location for the inheritance of the cataract Fraser (CatFr) mouse congenital cataract. Genet Res (Camb) 1987; 49:235-8. [PMID: 3623098 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300027129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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SummaryAnimal models which emulate defects similar to those in man are required for medical research. Many investigations on the cellular, developmental and molecular aspects of cataractogenesis use the cataract Fraser (CatFr) mouse. This report shows that the CatFT and Lop lens abnormalities are linked, and are probably allelic genes on chromosome 10. It also shows that the CatFT gene is maintained on an inbred genetic background which differs from 79 other strains; it is proposed that this strain be named CAT.
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Lubsen NH, Renwick JH, Tsui LC, Breitman ML, Schoenmakers JG. A locus for a human hereditary cataract is closely linked to the gamma-crystallin gene family. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:489-92. [PMID: 3025877 PMCID: PMC304234 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.2.489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Within the human gamma-crystallin gene cluster polymorphic Taq I sites are present. These give rise to three sets of allelic fragments from the gamma-crystallin genes. Together these restriction fragment length polymorphisms define eight possible haplotypes, three of which (Q, R, and S) were found in the Dutch and English population. A fourth haplotype (P) was detected within a family in which a hereditary Coppock-like cataract of the embryonic lens nucleus occurs in heterozygotes. Haplotype P was found only in family members who suffered from cataract, and all family members who suffered from cataract had haplotype P. The absolute correlation between the presence of haplotype P and cataract within this family shows that the gamma-crystallin gene cluster and the locus for the Coppock-like cataract are closely linked [logarithm of odds (lod) score of 7.58 at its maximum at phi = 0]. This linkage provides genetic evidence that the primary cause of a cataract in humans could possibly be a lesion in a crystallin gene.
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Mouse Mutants: Model Systems to Study Congenital Cataract. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61922-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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