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Molecular basis of reduced or absent expression of decay-accelerating factor in Cromer blood group phenotypes.

Abstract：

:The human erythrocyte blood group system Cromer consists of high-incidence and low-incidence antigens that reside on decay-accelerating factor (DAF; CD55), a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored membrane protein that regulates complement activation on cell surfaces. In the Cromer phenotypes Dr(a-) and Inab there is reduced or absent expression of DAF, respectively. This study investigated the molecular basis of the reduced DAF expression by polymerase chain reaction amplification of genomic DNA and RNA/cDNA obtained from Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines. Sequence analysis of the Inab propositus showed a single nucleotide substitution in exon 2 of the DAF gene and at the corresponding position in the cDNA, G314-->A resulting in Trp53-->Stop. This truncation near the amino terminus explains the complete absence of surface DAF in the Inab phenotype. A similar analysis was performed for two Dr(a-) individuals, including KZ, who was previously reported to be Inab phenotype but is now shown by immunochemical and serologic methods to be Dr(a-) phenotype. A single nucleotide change was found in exon 5 of the DAF gene, C649-->T resulting in Ser165-->Leu, which we had previously shown to lead to loss of the Dra epitope. However, two species of cDNA were found, one encoding full-length DAF with the single amino acid change and the more abundant species having a 44-nucleotide deletion. The 44 nucleotide deletion includes the single polymorphic site, which creates a cryptic branch point in the Dr(a-) allele that leads to use of a downstream cryptic acceptor splice site. This shifts the reading frame and leads to a premature stop codon that precludes membrane anchoring. Thus, the single point mutation in the Dr(a-) phenotype results in a novel use of alternative splicing and provides a molecular explanation for both the antigenicity and the reduced DAF expression seen in this phenotype.

journal_name

Blood

journal_title

Blood

authors

Lublin DM,Mallinson G,Poole J,Reid ME,Thompson ES,Ferdman BR,Telen MJ,Anstee DJ,Tanner MJ

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-08-15 00:00:00

pages

1276-82

issue

eissn

0006-4971

issn

1528-0020

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Molecular basis of reduced or absent expression of decay-accelerating factor in Cromer blood group phenotypes.