Functional studies of new GLA gene mutations leading to conformational Fabry disease.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
C FiloniA Morrone

Abstract

Fabry Disease (FD) is an X-linked multisystemic lysosomal disorder caused by mutations of alpha-galactosidase (GLA) gene. Only a few of the 450 genetic lesions identified so far have been characterised by in vitro expression studies. Thus the significance of newly identified GLA nucleotide variants in FD patients which lead to alpha-galactosidase (GAL-A) amino acid substitutions or intronic changes can be uncertain. We identified three GLA mutations, c.155G>A (p.C52Y), c.548G>C (p.G183A), c.647A>G (p.Y216C) in as many individuals (two male; one female) and performed in vitro expression studies and Western blot analysis in order to clarify their functional effects. Reduced GAL-A activity and normal or partially reduced mutant proteins were present in all overexpressed mutant systems in which three-dimensional structural analysis showed that the active site was not directly involved. We hypothesize that the three new mutations affect the GAL-A protein, leading to conformational FD. When mutant proteins overexpressed in COS-1 cells and in patients' lymphocytes were tested in the presence of the 1-deoxygalactonojirimicin (DGJ) chaperone, the p.G183A and p.Y216C systems showed increased GAL-A enzyme activities and protein stabilisat...Continue Reading

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