Isolation of a putative transcriptional regulator from the region of 22q11 deleted in DiGeorge syndrome, Shprintzen syndrome and familial congenital heart disease.
A wide spectrum of birth defects are caused by deletions of the DiGeorge syndrome critical region (DGCR) at human chromosome 22q11. Over one hundred such deletions have now been examined and a minimally deleted region of 300kb defined. Within these sequences we have identified a gene expressed during human and murine embryogenesis. The gene, named TUPLE1, and its murine homologue, encodes a protein containing repeated motifs similar to the WD40 domains found in the beta-transducin/enhancer of split (TLE) family. The TUPLE1 product has several features typical of transcriptional control proteins and in particular has homology with the yeast Tup1 transcriptional regulator. We propose that haploinsufficiency for TUPLE1 is at least partly responsible for DiGeorge syndrome and related abnormalities.
Halford
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Molecular Medicine Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
Wadey
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Roberts
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Daw
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Whiting
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O'Donnell
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Dunham
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Bentley
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Lindsay
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Baldini
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D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002892:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004062:DiGeorge Syndrome / Q000235:genetics*; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D015698:Genomic Library; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000235:genetics*; D056488:Histone Chaperones; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D015293:Transducin / Q000235:genetics; D014178:Translocation, Genetic
D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; C086057:HIRA protein, human; C484187:Hira protein, mouse; D056488:Histone Chaperones; D014157:Transcription Factors; D015293:Transducin