In silico characterization of a novel pathogenic deletion mutation identified in XPA gene in a Pakistani family with severe xeroderma pigmentosum

Journal of Biomedical Science

Abdul Hameed⁴  Salman Akbar Malik³  Amir Latif²  Christian MK Sieber¹  Nafees Ahmad⁴  Muhammad Nasir⁴ 

[1] Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;Latif Clinics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan;Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan;Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering, 24-Mauve area, G-9/1, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

关键词: XPA;    Xeroderma pigmentosum;    Nucleotide excision repair;    Novel mutation;    Genetic skin disorder;   

Others  :  823268
DOI  :  10.1186/1423-0127-20-70

 received in 2013-07-23, accepted in 2013-09-11,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is a rare skin disorder characterized by skin hypersensitivity to sunlight and abnormal pigmentation. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic cause of a severe XP phenotype in a consanguineous Pakistani family and in silico characterization of any identified disease-associated mutation.

Results

The XP complementation group was assigned by genotyping of family for known XP loci. Genotyping data mapped the family to complementation group A locus, involving XPA gene. Mutation analysis of the candidate XP gene by DNA sequencing revealed a novel deletion mutation (c.654del A) in exon 5 of XPA gene. The c.654del A, causes frameshift, which pre-maturely terminates protein and result into a truncated product of 222 amino acid (aa) residues instead of 273 (p.Lys218AsnfsX5). In silico tools were applied to study the likelihood of changes in structural motifs and thus interaction of mutated protein with binding partners. In silico analysis of mutant protein sequence, predicted to affect the aa residue which attains coiled coil structure. The coiled coil structure has an important role in key cellular interactions, especially with DNA damage-binding protein 2 (DDB2), which has important role in DDB-mediated nucleotide excision repair (NER) system.

Conclusions

Our findings support the fact of genetic and clinical heterogeneity in XP. The study also predicts the critical role of DDB2 binding region of XPA protein in NER pathway and opens an avenue for further research to study the functional role of the mutated protein domain.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Nasir et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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