Artigo Revisado por pares

Marked high density lipoprotein deficiency due to apolipoprotein A-I Tomioka (codon 138 deletion)

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 207; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.04.018

ISSN

1879-1484

Autores

Masamichi Wada, Tatsuya Iso, Bela F. Asztalos, Noriaki Takama, Tadashi Nakajima, Yukihiro Seta, Katsumi Kaneko, Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Hideo Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Nakajima, Ernst J. Schaefer, Masahiko Kurabayashi,

Tópico(s)

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors

Resumo

We report a novel apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) mutation identified in a 64-year-old patient with marked plasma high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (4 mg/dl) and apoA-I (5mg/dl) deficiency, prior myocardial infarction, and moderate corneal opacities. Coronary angiography revealed extensive atherosclerosis in all three major vessels. Genomic DNA sequencing of the proband revealed a homozygous novel deletion of two successive adenine residues in codon 138 in the apoA-I gene, resulting in a frameshift mutation at amino acid residues 138-178, which we have designated as apoA-I Tomioka. His elder brother was also homozygous for apoA-I Tomioka with marked HDL cholesterol and apoA-I deficiency, but had no clinical evidence of coronary heart disease. Other family members including three siblings and two sons were heterozygous for the mutation, and had approximately 50% of normal plasma HDL cholesterol, and apoA-I. Analysis of apoA-I-containing HDL particles by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed undetectable apoA-I HDL particles in the homozygotes, while in heterozygotes, the mean concentrations of apoA-I in large alpha-1 and very small prebeta-1 HDL subpopulations were significantly decreased at about 35% of normal. Thus, apoA-I Tomioka, a novel deletion mutation in codon 138 of the apoA-I gene, is the causative defect in this case of HDL deficiency.

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