Outcome of donor splice site mutations accounting for congenital afibrinogenemia reflects order of intron removal in the fibrinogen alpha gene (FGA)

Author:

Attanasio Catia1,David Armelle1,Neerman-Arbez Marguerite1

Affiliation:

1. From the Division of Medical Genetics, University Medical School and University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Congenital afibrinogenemia (Mendelian Inheritance in Man #202400) is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the complete absence of circulating fibrinogen. Our recent studies on the molecular basis of the disease showed that the most common genetic defect is a donor splice mutation in fibrinogen alpha gene (FGA)intron 4, IVS4+1G>T. Two other FGA donor splice mutations, in intron 1 (IVS1+3A>G) and intron 3 (IVS3+1_+4delGTAA), were identified in afibrinogenemia patients. Because it was impossible to directly study the effect of these mutations on mRNA splicing in patient hepatocytes, we used a transfected cell approach, which previously allowed us to show that the common IVS4 mutation causes afibrinogenemia due to the activation of multiple cryptic donor splice sites. In this study, analysis of the IVS3delGTAA mutation showed exon 3 skipping in 99% of transcripts and exons 2 and 3 skipping in 1% of transcripts. The different outcomes of these donor splice mutations appear to follow the model proposed in a study of fibrillar collagen genes, where donor splice mutations occurring in a rapidly spliced intron with respect to upstream introns lead in most cases to exon skipping, while mutations in later-spliced introns lead to intron inclusion or cryptic splice-site utilization. Indeed, we found that inFGA intron 3 was preferentially spliced first, followed by intron 2, intron 4, and intron 1.

Publisher

American Society of Hematology

Subject

Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry

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