Msh2 deficiency prevents in vivo somatic instability of the CAG repeat in Huntington disease transgenic mice
| Autor: | Kevin Manley, Lorraine Flaherty, Thomas L. Shirley, Anne Messer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Genetically modified mouse
Male congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities DNA Repair Somatic cell Base Pair Mismatch Minisatellite Repeat Mice Transgenic Minisatellite Repeats Biology medicine.disease_cause Exon Mice Trinucleotide Repeats Proto-Oncogene Proteins Genetics medicine Animals Humans Tissue Distribution Mice Knockout Mutation DNA-Binding Proteins Huntington Disease MutS Homolog 2 Protein MSH2 Anticipation (genetics) Female Trinucleotide repeat expansion |
| Zdroj: | Nature genetics. 23(4) |
| ISSN: | 1061-4036 |
| Popis: | Huntington disease (HD), an autosomal dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is caused by an expanded CAG repeat sequence leading to an increase in the number of glutamine residues in the encoded protein. The normal CAG repeat range is 5-36, whereas 38 or more repeats are found in the diseased state; the severity of disease is roughly proportional to the number of CAG repeats. HD shows anticipation, in which subsequent generations display earlier disease onsets due to intergenerational repeat expansion. For longer repeat lengths, somatic instability of the repeat size has been observed both in human cases at autopsy and in transgenic mouse models containing either a genomic fragment of human HD exon 1 (ref. 9) or an expanded repeat inserted into the endogenous mouse gene Hdh (ref. 10). With increasing repeat number, the protein changes conformation and becomes increasingly prone to aggregation, suggesting important functional correlations between repeat length and pathology. Because dinucleotide repeat instability is known to increase when the mismatch repair enzyme MSH2 is missing, we examined instability of the HD CAG repeat by crossing transgenic mice carrying exon 1 of human HD (ref. 16) with Msh2-/- mice. Our results show that Msh2 is required for somatic instability of the CAG repeat. |
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