title: Premature termination mutations in two patients with deficiency of lactate dehydrogenase H(B) subunit.
abstract: Two patients with low lactate dehydrogenase (LD) activity were discovered during healthcare examinations and were found to be homozygous for LD-H (heart) subunit deficiency by electrophoretic isoenzyme analysis of serum and erythrocyte hemolysate. The molecular nature of the genetic mutations was characterized by amplification by the polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing. In one case, a single-base substitution (T-->G transversion) at codon 147 of the LD-H(B) gene resulted in a nonsense mutation; in the other case, a deletion of 2 base pairs had occurred at codon 139, resulting in a frameshift translation and premature termination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine, Daisan Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sudo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanno
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akizuki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Magara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D007527:Isoenzymes; D004247:DNA; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase