Publication Date:
1986-11-07
Description:
Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase deficiency in man is responsible for familial porphyria cutanea tarda and hepatoerythropoietic porphyria. A recent study of a family with hepatoerythropoietic porphyria showed that the enzyme defect resulted from rapid degradation of the protein in vivo. Cloning and sequencing of a complementary DNA for the mutated gene revealed that the mutation was due to the replacement of a glycine residue by a glutamic acid residue at position 281. This base change leads to a protein that is very rapidly degraded in the presence of cell lysate. Characterization of the mutation will allow comparison of this defect in a homozygous patient with defects in other patients with familial porphyria cutanea tarda.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉de Verneuil, H -- Grandchamp, B -- Beaumont, C -- Picat, C -- Nordmann, Y -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Nov 7;234(4777):732-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3775362" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Carboxy-Lyases/*genetics
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Cloning, Molecular
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DNA/genetics
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Humans
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Liver Diseases/genetics
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Mutation
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Porphyrias/*genetics
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Skin Diseases/genetics
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Structure-Activity Relationship
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Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase/deficiency/*genetics/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
