Defective splicing of thyroglobulin gene transcripts in the congenital goitre of the Afrikander cattle.
AUTOR(ES)
Ricketts, M H
RESUMO
The structure of thyroglobulin mRNA was analyzed in an inbred herd of Afrikander cattle with hereditary goitre. Northern transfer of RNA from affected animals revealed both a shorter (approximately 7100 bases) and a normal-sized (approximately 8200 bases) thyroglobulin mRNA when hybridized to bovine thyroglobulin cDNA clones. S1 nuclease mapping experiments established that 1100 bases are deleted in the 5' region of the smaller mRNA. Electron microscopy of RNA from animals with goitre hybridized to a bovine genomic DNA clone showed that the region deleted corresponds to exon 9 of the thyroglobulin gene. Southern blot analysis of the exon 9 region revealed differences between affected and control animals with the enzymes PstI and TaqI. Although they could reflect a linkage disequilibrium between the mutation and restriction fragment length polymorphism, it is noteworthy that these differences map in the region of the exon 9/intron 9 junction. Our results show that a genetic lesion in the thyroglobulin gene causes aberrant splicing of the pre-mRNA, and suggest that the responsible mutation is at the exon 9/intron 9 junction.
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