Murine recessive hereditary spherocytosis, sph/sph, is caused by a mutation in the erythroid alpha-spectrin gene

The Hematology Journal : the Official Journal of the European Haematology Association
N J WanderseeJ E Barker

Abstract

Spectrin, a heterodimer of alpha- and beta-subunits, is the major protein component of the red blood cell membrane skeleton. The mouse mutation, sph, causes an alpha-spectrin-deficient hereditary spherocytosis with the severe phenotype typical of recessive hereditary spherocytosis in humans. The sph mutation maps to the erythroid alpha-spectrin locus, Spna1, on Chromosome 1. Scanning electron microscopy, osmotic gradient ektacytometry, cDNA cloning, RT-PCR, nucleic acid sequencing, and Northern blot analyses were used to characterize the wild type and sph alleles of the Spna1 locus. Our results confirm the spherocytic nature of sph/sph red blood cells and document a mild spherocytic transition in the +/sph heterozygotes. Sequencing of the full length coding region of the Spna1 wild type allele from the C57BL/6J strain of mice reveals a 2414 residue deduced amino acid sequence that shows the typical 106-amino-acid repeat structure previously described for other members of the spectrin protein family. Sequence analysis of RT-PCR clones from sph/sph alpha-spectrin mRNA identified a single base deletion in repeat 5 that would cause a frame shift and premature termination of the protein. This deletion was confirmed in sph/sph genomi...Continue Reading

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