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BLOOD
Volume 118, Issue 11, Pages 3137-3145Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-04-349985
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Department of Health (England)
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Mutations in the human erythroid Kruppel-like factor (EKLF) can lead to either anemia or the benign InLu phenotype. To elucidate the relationship between these mutations and the differing phenotypes, we prepared recombinant forms of wild-type and 5 mutant EKLF proteins and quantitated their binding affinity to a range of EKLF-regulated genes. Missense mutants (R328H, R328L, and R331G) from persons with InLu phenotype did not bind DNA. Hence, as with the heterozygous loss of function nonsense (L127X, S270X, and K292X) and frameshift (P190Lfs and R319Efs) EKLF mutations, monoallelic loss of EKLF does not result in haploinsufficiency at all loci. In contrast, K332Q has a slightly reduced DNA binding affinity (similar to 2-fold) for all promoters examined but exhibits a phenotype only in a compound heterozygote with a nonfunctional allele. E325K also has a reduced, but significant, binding affinity, particularly for the beta-globin gene but results in a disease phenotype even with the wild-type allele expressed, although not as a classic dominant-negative mutant. E325K protein may therefore actively interfere with EKLF-dependent processes by destabilizing transcription complexes, providing a rational explanation for the severity of the disease phenotype. Our study highlights the critical role of residues within the second EKLF zinc finger domain. (Blood. 2011;118(11):3137-3145)
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