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de la Morena-Barrio B, Padilla J, Teruel-Montoya R, Asenjo S, Wypasek E, Undas A, Miñano A, Vicente V, Corral J, de la Morena-Barrio M. Identification of a New Mechanism of Antithrombin Deficiency Hardly Detected by Current Methods: Duplication of SERPINC1 Exon 6. Thromb Haemost 2018; 118:939-941. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1637721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Belén de la Morena-Barrio
- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Unidad de Coagulación, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain
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- The John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland; Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Cracow, Poland
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Krakow, Poland
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- The John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland; Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Cracow, Poland
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Krakow, Poland
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- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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de la Morena-Barrio M, Antón A, Martínez-Martínez I, Padilla J, Miñano A, Navarro-Fernández J, Águila S, López M, Fontcuberta J, Vicente V, Corral J. Regulatory regions of SERPINC1 gene: Identification of the first mutation associated with antithrombin deficiency. Thromb Haemost 2017; 107:430-7. [DOI: 10.1160/th11-10-0701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2011] [Accepted: 11/29/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
SummaryAntithrombin is the main endogenous anticoagulant. Impaired function or deficiency of this molecule significantly increases the risk of thrombosis. We studied the genetic variability of SERPINC1, the gene encoding antithrombin, to identify mutations affecting regulatory regions with functional effect on its levels. We sequenced 15,375 bp of this gene, including the potential promoter region, in three groups of subjects: five healthy subjects with antithrombin levels in the lowest (75%) and highest (115%) ranges of our population, 14 patients with venous thrombosis and a moderate antithrombin deficiency as the single thrombophilic defect, and two families with type I antithrombin deficiency who had neither mutations affecting exons or flanking regions, nor gross gene deletions. Our study confirmed the low genetic variability of SERPINC1, particularly in the coding region, and its minor influence in the heterogeneity of antithrombin levels. Interestingly, in one family, we identified a g.2143 C>G transversion, located 170 bp upstream from the translation initiation codon. This mutation affected one of the four regions located in the minimal promoter that have potential regulatory activity according to previous DNase footprinting protection assays. Genotype-phenotype analysis in the affected family and reporter analysis in different hepatic cell lines demonstrated that this mutation significantly impaired, although it did not abolish, the downstream transcription. Therefore, this is the first mutation affecting a regulatory region of the SERPINC1 gene associated with antithrombin deficiency. Our results strongly sustain the inclusion of the promoter region of SERPINC1 in the molecular analysis of patients with antithrombin deficiency.
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de la Morena-Barrio M, Sandoval E, Llamas P, Wypasek E, Toderici M, Navarro-Fernández J, Rodríguez-Alen A, Revilla N, López-Gálvez R, Miñano A, Padilla J, de la Morena-Barrio B, Cuesta J, Corral J, Vicente V. High levels of latent antithrombin in plasma from patients with antithrombin deficiency. Thromb Haemost 2017; 117:880-888. [PMID: 28229161 DOI: 10.1160/th16-11-0866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Antithrombin is an anticoagulant serpin that efficiently inhibits multiple procoagulant proteases. The cost for the structural flexibility required for this function is the vulnerability to mutations that impact its folding pathway. Most conformational mutations identified in serpins cause polymerisation. Only three mutations in SERPINC1 affecting two residues have been found to favour transformation to the latent conformation of antithrombin, another hyperstable non-anticoagulant form with strong antiangiogenic activity that constitutes 3 % of plasma antithrombin in healthy subjects. The analysis of latent antithrombin in 141 unrelated patients with antithrombin deficiency carrying 89 different SERPINC1 mutations identified four cases with higher levels than that of controls: p.Pro439Thr, p.Pro461Ser, p.Met283Val, and p.His401Tyr, the last also with circulating polymers. Heating of plasma at 42ºC exacerbated the transformation to the latent conformation in p.Pro439Thr and p.Pro461Ser. The conformational effect of p.Met283Val, the mutation associated with the highest levels of latent antithrombin detected in four members of a family, was verified in a recombinant model. Antithrombin deficiency in these cases should be classified as pleiotropic based on the impaired reactivity and low heparin affinity of the variant. Despite high levels of latent antithrombin (up to 80 µg/ml in p.Met283Val carriers), no vascular defects were described in carriers of these mutations. In conclusion, our study identifies new residues involved in the structural stability of antithrombin (and potentially of all serpins). High levels of endogenous latent antithrombin seem to play a minor antiangiogenic effect. Finally, pleiotropic deficiencies may be caused by mutations inducing transformation to the latent conformation.
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- Dr. Javier Corral, University of Murcia, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Calle Ronda de Garay s/n. Murcia 30003, Spain, Tel.: +34 968341990, Fax: +34 968261914, E-mail:
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