Faculty Research 1990 - 1999

The beta3A subunit gene (Ap3b1) of the AP-3 adaptor complex is altered in the mouse hypopigmentation mutant pearl, a model for Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome and night blindness.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1999

Keywords

Alleles, Amino-Acid-Sequence, Animal, Base-Sequence, Cloning-Molecular: mt, Contig-Mapping, COS-Cells, DNA-Complementary: ge, Female, Gene-Expression, Genes-Structural: ge, Hypopigmentation: ge, Male, Membrane-Proteins: ge, Mice, Mice-Inbred-C3H, Mice-Inbred-C57BL, Mice-Mutant-Strains, Molecular-Sequence-Data, Mutation, Nerve-Tissue-Proteins: ge, Night-Blindness: ge, Phosphoproteins: ge, RNA-Messenger: ge, me, Sequence-Alignment, Sequence-Homology-Amino-Acid, Sequence-Homology-Nucleic-Acid, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Tissue-Distribution, Transcription-Genetic

First Page

323

Last Page

330

JAX Source

Hum Mol Genet 1999 Feb;8(2):323-30

Grant

P30CA16056/CA/NCI, HL31698/HL/NHLBI, HL51480/HL/NHLBI

Abstract

Lysosomes, melanosomes and platelet-dense granules are abnormal in the mouse hypopigmentation mutant pearl. The beta3A subunit of the AP-3 adaptor complex, which likely regulates protein trafficking in the trans - Golgi network/endosomal compartments, was identified as a candidate for the pearl gene by a positional/candidate cloning approach. Mutations, including a large internal tandem duplication and a deletion, were identified in two respective pearl alleles and are predicted to abrogate function of the beta3A protein. Significantly lowered expression of altered beta3A transcripts occurred in kidney of both mutant alleles. The several distinct pearl phenotypes suggest novel functions for the AP-3 complex in mammals. These experiments also suggest mutations in AP-3 subunits as a basis for unique forms of human Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome and congenital night blindness, for which the pearl mouse is an appropriate animal model.

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