A molecular defect of spectrin in a subset of patients with hereditary elliptocytosis. Alterations in the alpha-subunit domain involved in spectrin self-association.
AUTOR(ES)
Lawler, J
RESUMO
Hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) is a clinically and biochemically heterogenous group of diseases characterized by elliptically shaped erythrocytes and an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Whereas the self-association of spectrin heterodimers to tetramers is defective in a subpopulation of HE patients, designated HE[SpD-SpD], it is normal in others. We have examined the peptide pattern produced by limited tryptic digestion of spectrin extracts from patients with HE[SpD-SpD] to determine if the functional defects in spectrin self-association could be correlated with structural changes in the spectrin molecule. Although the peptide pattern produced by limited tryptic digestion of spectrin extracts from those HE patients with normal spectrin self-association was indistinguishable from the pattern from control normal volunteers, digestion of the spectrin extracts from the HE[SpD-SpD] patients showed a reproducible diminution in the 80,000-D domain of the alpha-subunit, which is involved in spectrin dimer self-association. The decrease in the 80,000-D fragment was associated with an increase in a 74,000-D fragment in eight of nine families, or, in one family, with an increase of fragments at 46,000 and 17,000 D. These atypical peptide patterns were similar to those previously reported in two variants of hereditary pyropoikilocytosis (HPP), which also had defective self-association of spectrin. These data indicate that two distinct structural variants of spectrin alpha-subunit are associated with the defective spectrin heterodimer self-association in a subpopulation of HE patients.
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