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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
18
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-5
pubmed:abstractText
We have studied the effect of a 13-bp deletion in the promoter of the von Willebrand factor (VWF) gene in a patient with type 1 von Willebrand disease. The index case has a VWF:Ag of 0.49 IU/mL and is heterozygous for the deletion. The deletion is located 48 bp 5' of the transcription start site, and in silico analysis, electrophoretic mobility shift assays, and chromatin immunoprecipitation studies all predict aberrant binding of Ets transcription factors to the site of the deletion. Transduction of reporter gene constructs into blood outgrowth endothelial cells showed a 50.5% reduction in expression with the mutant promoter (n = 16, P < .001). A similar 40% loss of transactivation was documented in transduced HepG2 cells. A similar marked reduction of transgene expression was shown in the livers of mice injected with the mutant promoter construct (n = 8, P = .003). Finally, in studies of BOEC mRNA, the index case showed a 4.6-fold reduction of expression of the VWF transcript associated with the deletion mutation. These studies show that the 13-bp deletion mutation alters the binding of Ets (and possibly GATA) proteins to the VWF promoter and significantly reduces VWF expression, thus playing a central pathogenic role in the type 1 von Willebrand disease phenotype in the index case.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1528-0020
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
116
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3645-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-GATA Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Hep G2 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Sequence Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Transcriptional Activation, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-Transgenes, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-von Willebrand Disease, Type 1, pubmed-meshheading:20696945-von Willebrand Factor
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Functional characterization of a 13-bp deletion (c.-1522_-1510del13) in the promoter of the von Willebrand factor gene in type 1 von Willebrand disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural