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Molecular basis of argininemia. Identification of two discrete frame-shift deletions in the liver-type arginase gene.

Argininemia results from a deficiency of arginase (EC 3.5.3.1), the last enzyme of the urea cycle in the liver. We examined the molecular basis for argininemia by constructing a genomic library followed by cloning and DNA sequencing. Discrete mutations were found on two alleles from the patient, a product of a nonconsanguineous marriage. There was a four-base deletion at protein-coding region 262-265 or 263-266 in exon 3 that would lead to a reading-frame shift after amino acid residue 87 and make a new stop codon at residue 132. The other was a one-base deletion at 77 or 78 in exon 2 that would lead to a reading-frame shift after residue 26 and make a stop codon at residue 31. For confirmation, genomic DNAs from the patient and from her parents were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction method. The patient was shown to be a compound heterozygote, inheriting an allele with the four-base deletion from the father and the other allele with the one-base deletion from the mother. These data seem to be the first evidence of a case of argininemia caused by two different deletion mutations.[1]

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  1. Molecular basis of argininemia. Identification of two discrete frame-shift deletions in the liver-type arginase gene. Haraguchi, Y., Aparicio, J.M., Takiguchi, M., Akaboshi, I., Yoshino, M., Mori, M., Matsuda, I. J. Clin. Invest. (1990) [Pubmed]
 
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