| Autor: |
Roudier N; INSERM U76, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, 6 rue Alexandre Cabanel, 75015 Paris, France., Ripoche P, Gane P, Le Pennec PY, Daniels G, Cartron JP, Bailly P |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The Journal of biological chemistry [J Biol Chem] 2002 Nov 29; Vol. 277 (48), pp. 45854-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2002 Sep 17. |
| DOI: |
10.1074/jbc.M208999200 |
| Abstrakt: |
AQP3 is a water and glycerol channel present on human erythrocytes and in various tissues. By protein and molecular biology analysis, two unrelated probands who developed alloantibodies to the high frequency antigen GIL were found to be AQP3-deficient. The defect is caused by homozygous mutation affecting the 5' donor splice site of intron 5 of the AQP3 gene. This mutation causes the skipping of exon 5 and generates a frameshift and premature stop codon. Functional studies by 90 degrees light scattering using a stopped-flow spectrometer revealed the absence of facilitated glycerol transport across red cell membranes from the probands, but the water and urea transports were normal. Expression studies into COS-7 cells followed by flow cytometry analysis showed that only cells transfected with AQP3 cDNA strongly reacted with anti-GIL antibodies. These findings represent the first reported cases of AQP3 deficiency in humans and provide the molecular basis of a new blood group system, GIL, encoded by the AQP3 protein. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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