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ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages 148-153Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agv099
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Elevated Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) levels are used as a biomarker in order to screen for chronic alcohol abuse. Transferrin (Tf) variants can impair methods to measure elevated CDT levels such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). We present a Tf variant affecting the second glycosylation site of Tf and the complications it causes in diagnosing alcoholism. A blood sample from a patient with suspected alcohol abuse was analyzed with HPLC, isoelectric focusing, electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ESI-TOF-MS), immunoprecipitation and SDS-Page. Sanger sequencing of Tf was performed to detect Tf mutations. HPLC, SDS-Page and IEF showed a distinctly increased disialo-Tf fraction while the tetrasialo-Tf fraction was decreased, ESI-TOF-MS confirmed these results. Sanger sequencing revealed the Tf mutation c.1889 A > C, deleting a Tf glycosylations site and thereby causing elevated disialo-Tf levels. Transferrin mutations can severely impair the diagnostics of chronic alcohol abuse by causing false positive results. This has to be considered when CDT screening is used to detect alcoholism.
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