Folate-sensitive fragile site FRA10A is due to an expansion of a CGG repeat in a novel gene, FRA10AC1, encoding a nuclear protein

Sarafidou, Theologia, Kahl, Christina, Martinez Garay, Isabel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6849-7496, Mangelsdorf, Marie, Gesk, Stefan, Baker, Elizabeth, Kokkinaki, Maria, Talley, Polly, Maltby, Edna L., French, Lisa, Harder, Lana, Hinzmann, Bernd, Nobile, Carlo, Richkind, Kathy, Finnis, Merran, Deloukas, Panagiotis, Sutherland, Grant R., Kutsche, Kerstin, Moschonas, Nicholas K., Siebert, Reiner and Gécz, Jozef 2004. Folate-sensitive fragile site FRA10A is due to an expansion of a CGG repeat in a novel gene, FRA10AC1, encoding a nuclear protein. Genomics 84 (1) , pp. 69-81. 10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.12.017

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Abstract

Fragile sites appear visually as nonstaining gaps on chromosomes that are inducible by specific cell culture conditions. Expansion of CGG/CCG repeats has been shown to be the molecular basis of all five folate-sensitive fragile sites characterized molecularly so far, i.e., FRAXA, FRAXE, FRAXF, FRA11B, and FRA16A. In the present study we have refined the localization of the FRA10A folate-sensitive fragile site by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Sequence analysis of a BAC clone spanning FRA10A identified a single, imperfect, but polymorphic CGG repeat that is part of a CpG island in the 5′UTR of a novel gene named FRA10AC1. The number of CGG repeats varied in the population from 8 to 13. Expansions exceeding 200 repeat units were methylated in all FRA10A fragile site carriers tested. The FRA10AC1 gene consists of 19 exons and is transcribed in the centromeric direction from the FRA10A repeat. The major transcript of ∼1450 nt is ubiquitously expressed and codes for a highly conserved protein, FRA10AC1, of unknown function. Several splice variants leading to alternative 3′ ends were identified (particularly in testis). These give rise to FRA10AC1 proteins with altered COOH-termini. Immunofluorescence analysis of full-length, recombinant EGFP-tagged FRA10AC1 protein showed that it was present exclusively in the nucleoplasm. We show that the expression of FRA10A, in parallel to the other cloned folate-sensitive fragile sites, is caused by an expansion and subsequent methylation of an unstable CGG trinucleotide repeat. Taking advantage of three cSNPs within the FRA10AC1 gene we demonstrate that one allele of the gene is not transcribed in a FRA10A carrier. Our data also suggest that in the heterozygous state FRA10A is likely a benign folate-sensitive fragile site.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Folate-sensitive fragile site; Triplet repeat expansion; Novel gene; Nuclear protein
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0888-7543
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 08:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/71778

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