title: Capn10, a candidate gene responsible for type 2 diabetes mellitus in the OLETF rat.
abstract: The rat strain Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) is an animal model for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nidd8/of has been identified as one of 14 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) involved in the diabetes by a whole genome search in 160 F2 progenies obtained by mating the OLETF and F344 rats. Comparative mapping between human and rat indicated that the Nidd8/of genomic region, near D9rat21 on rat chromosome 9, contains the calpain10 (Capn10) gene, which is putative type 2 diabetes-susceptibility gene in humans. In this study, we found no difference in Capn10 mRNA expression in the heart, liver, skeletal muscle and pancreas between OLETF and F344 rats at 5 and 10 weeks of age. However, we found a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (A/A genotype in OLETF and G/G genotype in F344 and LETO rats) at the base 583 downstream from the translation start site in the rat Capn10 cDNA sequence. This SNP was deduced to substitute serine (OLETF) for glycine (F344 and LETO) at the 195 amino acid residue within the protease domain of rat Capn10. Because serine is generally not interchangeable with glycine in respect of the protein structure and function, it was deduced that the A/A genotype in OLETF is not a 'safe' mutation. This non-conservative amino acid substitution might be associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in OLETF rats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Sciences, Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University Junior College, Ikeda, Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8005, Japan.
authors.forename: Youji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kose
authors.forename: Kozo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sasaki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002154:Calpain / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D009154:Mutation; D009928:Organ Specificity; D051381:Rats; D020334:Rats, Inbred OLETF
chemical_list: D002154:Calpain; C415197:calpain 10