Chemical cleavage method for the detection of RNA base changes: experience in the application to collagen mutations in osteogenesis imperfecta

American Journal of Medical Genetics
J F BatemanW G Cole

Abstract

We discuss the definition of mutations in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) using a chemical cleavage method for detecting mismatched bases in patient mRNA: control cDNA heteroduplexes. The method is based on the increased chemical modification of cytosines (Cs) by hydroxylamine and thymines (Ts) by osmium tetroxide when they are not paired with their complementary base. The DNA is then cleaved at the modified base with piperidine and the use of radioactively labeled DNA probes allows the position of the mismatched base to be determined by electrophoresis of the cleavage-product. The precise mutations are then determined by specific amplification and sequencing of the region containing the mismatched base. In perinatally lethal OI (OI type II) mismatches have been detected in all 17 cases studied; 12 of these have been fully characterized. In 7 of these 12 cases the mismatches were point mutations in the genes for pro alpha 1(I) or pro alpha 2(I) which resulted in glycine substitutions in the triple helical region of the protein. Sequence variation was detected in addition to the glycine substitutions in 2 cases. In 2 cases the RNA mismatch resulted from changes in the amino acid sequence of the C-propeptide domain. In the 3 remaini...Continue Reading

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Apr 1, 1995·Journal of Medical Genetics·W G Cole, R Dalgleish
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May 26, 1998·Human Mutation·T P EllisR G Cotton

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