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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
23
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-10-23
pubmed:abstractText
Trichothiodystrophy (TTD) is a rare hereditary multisystem disorder associated with defects in nucleotide excision repair (NER) as a consequence of mutations in XPD, XPB or TTDA, three genes that are all related to TFIIH, the multiprotein complex involved in NER and transcription. Here we show that all the mutations found in TTD cases, irrespective of whether they are homozygotes, hemizygotes or compound heterozygotes, cause a substantial and specific reduction (by up to 70%) in the cellular concentration of TFIIH. Intriguingly, the degree of reduction in the level of TFIIH does not correlate with the severity of the pathological phenotype, suggesting that the severity of the clinical features in TTD cannot be related solely to the effects of mutations on the stability of TFIIH. We have also measured TFIIH levels in cells in which different mutations in the XPD gene are associated with clinical symptoms not of TTD but of the highly cancer-prone disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). We have found mild reductions (up to 40%) in TFIIH content in some but not all of these cell strains. We conclude that the severity of the clinical features in TTD patients and the clinical outcome of differentially mutated XPD proteins is likely to depend both on the effects that each mutation has on the stability of TFIIH and on the transcriptional activity of the residual TFIIH complexes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antigens, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cyclin-Dependent Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cytoskeletal Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA Helicases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ERCC2 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/IFI44 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/P62 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factor TFIIH, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factors, TFII, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/XPBC-ERCC-3 protein, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group D..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/cyclin-dependent kinase-activating...
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0964-6906
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2919-28
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Abnormalities, Multiple, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Biopsy, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Cyclin-Dependent Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Cytoskeletal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-DNA Helicases, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-DNA Repair, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Hair, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Ichthyosis, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Intellectual Disability, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-RNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Transcription Factor TFIIH, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Transcription Factors, TFII, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Xeroderma Pigmentosum, pubmed-meshheading:12393803-Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group D Protein
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Reduced level of the repair/transcription factor TFIIH in trichothiodystrophy.
pubmed:affiliation
Istituto di Genetica Molecolare CNR, via Abbiategrasso, 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't