Isolation and characterization of adrenoleukodystrophy protein (ALDP) related sequences in the human genome
- Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (United States); and others
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a disorder of peroxisomal {beta}-oxidation of very long chain fatty acids. It presents either as progressive dementia in childhood or as progressive paraparesis in later years. Adrenal insufficiency occurs in both phenotypes. The gene of the ALD protein has been mapped to Xq28 and has recently been cloned and characterized. The ALD protein has significant homology to the peroxisomal membrane protein, PMP70 and belongs to the ATP binding cassette superfamily of transporters. We screened a human genomic library with an ALDP cDNA and isolated 5 different but highly similar clones containing sequences corresponding to the 3{prime} end of the ALDP gene. Comparison of the sequences over the region corresponding to exon 9 through the 3{prime} end of the ALDP gene reveals {approximately}96% nucleotide identity in both exonic and intronic regions. Splice sites and open reading frames are maintained. Using both FISH and human-rodent DNA mapping panels, we positively assign these ALDP-related sequences to chromosomes 2, 16 and 22, and provisionally to 1 and 20. Southern blot of primate DNA probed with a partial ALDP cDNA (exon 2-10) shows that expansion of ALDP-related sequences occurred in higher primates (chimp, gorilla and human). Although Northern blots show multiple ALDP-hybridizing transcripts in certain tissues, we have no evidence to date for expression of these ALDP-related sequences. In conclusion, our data show there has been an unusual and recent dispersal to multiple chromosomes of structural gene sequences related to the ALDP gene. The functional significance of these sequences remains to be determined but their existence complicates PCR and mutation analysis of the ALDP gene.
- OSTI ID:
- 133836
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0569
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 55, Issue Suppl.3; Conference: 44. annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal (Canada), 18-22 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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