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LIFE-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life13010151
Keywords
erythrocyte membrane skeleton; ankyrin-R; spectrin; spectrin-binding domain; ankyrin-spectrin interaction; hereditary spherocytosis
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A new missense mutation in the ANK1 gene associated with hereditary spherocytosis phenotype is reported. This mutation, L1340P substitution, affects the conformation of the ankyrin ZZUD domain important for ankyrin binding to spectrin. The study shows the impact of this mutation on protein binding activity and cell morphology.
Previously, we reported a new missense mutation in the ANK1 gene that correlated with the hereditary spherocytosis phenotype. This mutation, resulting in L1340P substitution (HGMD CM149731), likely leads to the changes in the conformation of the ankyrin ZZUD domain important for ankyrin binding to spectrin. Here, we report the molecular and physiological effects of this mutation. First, we assessed the binding activity of human beta-spectrin to the mutated ZZUDL1340P domain of ankyrin using two different experimental approaches-the study of association and dissociation responses of the spectrin-ankyrin binding domain and a sedimentation assay. In addition, we documented the changes in morphology caused by the overexpressed ankyrin ZZUD domain in human cell models. Our results prove the key role of the L1340 aa residue for the correct alignment of the ZZUD domain of ankyrin, which results in binding the latter with spectrin within the erythrocyte membrane. Replacing L1340 with a proline residue disrupts the spectrin-binding activity of ankyrin.
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