Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Case Reports
. 1998 Jul;17(7):726-9.

Altered rep-1 expression due to substitution at position +3 of the IVS13 splice-donor site of the choroideremia (CHM) gene

Affiliations
  • PMID: 9678418
Case Reports

Altered rep-1 expression due to substitution at position +3 of the IVS13 splice-donor site of the choroideremia (CHM) gene

L Beaufrère et al. Curr Eye Res. 1998 Jul.

Abstract

Purpose: To characterize the effect on mRNA splicing of a yet undescribed mutation located in intron 13 splice-donor sequence (IVS13 + 3A --> C) in the Rab-Escort-protein 1 gene of a patient with choroideremia.

Methods: The base substitution was firstly detected by the Single Strand conformation analysis from genomic DNA. A REP-1 cDNA region encompassing exons 10-14 was then specifically amplified from lymphocytes-derived mRNA.

Results: We could demonstrate that this substitution affects REP-1 RNA processing. The patient revealed only one aberrantly spliced mRNA lacking exon 13 and no normal transcript.

Conclusion: The skipping of exon 13 results in the creation of a stop codon at the misspliced junction. This is the first case of nucleotide substitution at the +3 position of a splice donor site so far described in choroideremia.

PubMed Disclaimer

Similar articles

Cited by

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources