First Author | Laue L | Year | 1995 |
Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | Volume | 92 |
Issue | 6 | Pages | 1906-10 |
PubMed ID | 7892197 | Mgi Jnum | J:46874 |
Mgi Id | MGI:1202184 | Doi | 10.1073/pnas.92.6.1906 |
Citation | Laue L, et al. (1995) Genetic heterogeneity of constitutively activating mutations of the human luteinizing hormone receptor in familial male-limited precocious puberty. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 92(6):1906-10 |
abstractText | Genomic DNA from 32 unrelated families with male-limited precocious puberty was examined for the previously described Asp-578-->Gly, Met-571-->Ile, and Thr-577-->Ile mutations in transmembrane helix 6 of the human luteinizing hormone receptor (hLHR). Twenty-eight families had the inherited form of the disorder, and of these, 24 were found to have the Asp-578-->Gly mutation. Four additional mutations were found among the remaining four families with the inherited form and in four sporadic cases of the disorder: an A-->C transversion resulting in substitution of leucine for Ile-542 in the fifth transmembrane helix, an A-->G transition resulting in substitution of glycine for Asp-564 in the third cytoplasmic loop, a G-->T transversion resulting in substitution of tyrosine for Asp-578 in the sixth transmembrane helix, and a T-->C transition resulting in substitution of arginine for Cys-581 in the sixth transmembrane helix. Human embryonic kidney cells transfected with cDNAs for each of the mutant hLHRs, created by PCR-based mutagenesis of the wild-type hLHR cDNA, exhibited increased levels of basal cAMP production in the absence of agonist, indicating constitutive activation of the mutation hLHRs. Three of the additional mutations had specific features: Ile-542-->Leu and Cys-581-->Arg appeared ligand-unresponsive, whereas Asp-578-->Tyr appeared to correlate genotype with phenotype. We conclude that the region spanning nt 1624-1741 of exon 11 is a hotspot for heterogeneous point mutations that constitutively activate the hLHR and cause male-limited precocious puberty. |