hydroxymethylbilane synthase;
South African;
acute intermittent porphyria;
CpG dinucleotides;
D O I:
10.1006/mcpr.1996.0008
中图分类号:
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号:
071010 ;
081704 ;
摘要:
We have screened the hydroxymethylbilane synthase cDNA from six South African patients with acute intermittent porphyria, using a combination of chemical cleavage mismatch analysis and direct sequencing of asymmetrically amplified PCR products. Four mutations were detected, a novel T insertion (771insT) and three missense mutations (R26H, R116W and R173Q). The 771insT mutation produces a stop codon, thirty-three codons downstream and a loss of approximately 20% of the protein is predicted. The R116W mutation, Which was found to have a high prevalence in the Dutch population, was detected in three unrelated South African patients. (C) 1996 Academic Press Limited