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. 1992 Oct;22(10):2669-73.
doi: 10.1002/eji.1830221029.

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria due to hereditary nucleotide deletion in the HRF20 (CD59) gene

N Motoyama  1 , N Okada, M Yamashina, H Okada
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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria due to hereditary nucleotide deletion in the HRF20 (CD59) gene

N Motoyama et al. Eur J Immunol. 1992 Oct.

Abstract

HRF20 (CD59) is a membrane glycoprotein which protects cells from the membrane attack reaction of homologous complement. A patient who is completely deficient in HRF20 expression and is suffering from paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) was studied. His parents are cousins and both have decreased HRF20 expression, suggesting that the deficiency is genetic. We established a cultured cell line (NCU1) which is HRF20 deficient from the patient's lymphocytes by Epstein-Barr-virus (EBV) infection. Northern blot analysis revealed HRF20 mRNA signals, indicating that HRF20 mRNA were transcribed. HRF20 cDNA was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. Sequencing of the cDNA from the NCU1 showed two single-base deletions at amino acid 16 and 96 from the N terminus of the mature protein. Deletion in the genomic DNA of peripheral blood lymphocytes was confirmed by the DNA sequence of an HRF20 open reading frame containing amino acid 16. Furthermore, the patient's parents and sister possessed both intact and deleted genomic HRF20 DNA while his brother's DNA was intact. These findings demonstrate that the HRF20 deficiency was genomic in origin, and that complete deletion was brought about by a homozygous abnormality in the HRF20 gene. The base deletion caused a codon frame shift resulting in failure to produce intact HRF20 protein in the patient.

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