title: Human biotin-containing subunit of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase gene (MCCA): cDNA sequence, genomic organization, localization to chromosomal band 3q27, and expression.
abstract: 3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCCase; EC 6.4.1.4) is a mitochondrial biotin enzyme and plays an essential role in the catabolism of leucine and isovalerate in animals, bacterial species, and plants. MCCase consists of two subunits, those that are biotin-containing and non-biotin-containing. The genes responsible for these subunits have been isolated in soybean, Arabidopsis thaliana, and tomatoes, but not in mammals. In humans, MCCase deficiency has been thought to be a rare metabolic disease, but the number of patients with MCCase deficiency appears to be increasing with a wide range of clinical presentations, some that result in a lethal condition and others that are asymptomatic. In this report, we have isolated and carried out chromosomal mapping of the gene for the biotin-containing subunit (A subunit) of the human MCCase gene, MCCA. The cDNA predicts an open reading frame coding for a 725-amino-acid protein with mitochondrial signal peptide, biotin carboxylase, and biotin-carrier domains. The gene is composed of at least 19 exons and covers more than 70 kb of sequence on band q27 of chromosome 3. MCCA was abundantly expressed in mitochondria-rich organs, such as the heart, skeletal muscles, kidney, and liver. In exon 13, we observed a His/Pro polymorphism at codon 464 (an A to C transition at nucleotide position 1391 in the cDNA sequence). Then, we determined the DNA sequences of the 5' untranslated region and entire coding regions in two patients with MCCase deficiency, but no sequence substitution was detected, suggesting that the gene mutations might be in the non-biotin-containing subunit (B subunit) gene, MCCB, in these patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygiene, Ehime University School of Medicine, Onsen-gun, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Obata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morishita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asakawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshino
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ihara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murayama
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shigemoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001710:Biotin; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D019735:Carbon-Carbon Ligases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002893:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D005091:Exons; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010375:Pedigree; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D001710:Biotin; D019735:Carbon-Carbon Ligases; C021573:methylcrotonoyl-CoA carboxylase