Faculty Research 1990 - 1999

Identification of the mutation in murine histidinemia (his) and genetic mapping of the murine histidase locus (Hal) on chromosome 10.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1993

Keywords

Amino-Acid-Sequence, Animal, Base-Sequence, Chromosome-Mapping, Cloning-Molecular, DNA: ge, DNA-Mutational-Analysis, Genetic-Markers, Histidase: ge, Histidine, Liver: me, Mice: ge, Mice-Inbred-BALB-C, Mice-Inbred-C57BL, Mice-Mutant-Strains, Molecular-Sequence-Data, RNA-Messenger: ge, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

231

Last Page

240

JAX Source

Genomics 1993 Apr;16(1):231-40

Grant

GM18684/GM/NIGMS

Abstract

We cloned a mouse histidase cDNA to identify the mutation in histidinemic mice (his/his) and to determine the relationship of the histidase locus (Hal) both to Chromosome 10 markers and to Hsd, the histidase activity variant locus. The his mutation, a G to A transition at nucleotide +965, changes Arg-322 to Gln (R322Q). Expression of the R322Q allele in COS cells resulted in proportionately reduced amounts of histidase protein and activity compared to the wildtype allele. Hal maps approximately 4 cM distal to the insulin-like growth factor-1 locus and approximately 10 cM proximal to steel. Hsd was found to be tightly linked to Hal, and the low-histidase-activity Hsd allele was associated with reduced histidase mRNA. These studies indicate that the R322Q allele reduces the stability of histidase, position Hal on the Chromosome 10 linkage map, and provide further evidence that Hsd is allelic to Hal.

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