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HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 28, Issue 11, Pages 1108-1113Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/humu.20574
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Wilson disease; yeast complementation system; confocal microscopy; ATP7B
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Wilson disease (WND), an autosomal recessive disorder of copper transport, is characterized by excessive accumulation of intracellular copper in liver and extrahepatic tissues because of impaired biliary copper excretion and disturbed incorporation of copper into ceruloplasmin. Hepatic cirrhosis and neuronal degeneration are the major symptoms of WND, and mutations in the ATP7B gene are associated with WND. We have identified 28 different mutations in the ATP7B gene, including six novel variations, in 120 unrelated Korean patients with WND. Molecular defects in ATP7B were present in only 75.0% of Korean WND patients, with the most common mutation, p.Arg778Leu, having an allele frequency of 39.2%. To evaluate the functional defects of ATP7B caused by novel mutations, we used a yeast complementation system, and we used confocal microscopy to localize each mutation after transient expression in mammalian cells. Six novel variations were cloned into a yeast expression vector and two into a mammalian expression vector for confocal analysis. We found that c.2785A > G (p.Ile929Val) and c.3316G > A (p.Val1 106Ile) were rare polymorphisms, whereas the others were novel variations disturbing ATP7B function.
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