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ArticleHaematologica2009

Beta-spectrinBari: a truncated beta-chain responsible for dominant hereditary spherocytosis.

Silverio Perrotta, Fulvio Della Ragione, Francesca Rossi, Rosa Anna Avvisati, Daniela Di Pinto, Giovanna De Mieri, Saverio Scianguetta, Silvia Mancusi, Luigia De Falco, Vito Marano and 1 more

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Article in Haematologica, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Silverio PerrottaDepartment of Pediatrics, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy. silverio.perrotta@unina2.it
Fulvio Della Ragione
Francesca Rossi
Rosa Anna Avvisati
Daniela Di Pinto
Giovanna De Mieri
Saverio Scianguetta
Silvia Mancusi
Luigia De Falco
Vito Marano
Achille Iolascon
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a beta-spectrin variant, named beta-spectrin Bari, characterized by a truncated chain and associated with hereditary spherocytosis. The clinical phenotype consists of a moderately severe hemolytic anemia, splenomegaly, and spherocytes and acanthocytes in the blood smear. The occurrence of the truncated protein, that represents about 8% of the total beta-spectrin occurring on the membrane, results in a marked spectrin deficiency. The altered protein is due to a single point mutation at position -2 (A->G) of the acceptor splice site of intron 16 leading to an aberrant beta-spectrin message skipping exons 16 and 17 indistinguishable from that reported for beta-spectrin Winston-Salem. We provide evidence that the mutated gene is transcribed but its mRNA is less abundant than either its normal counterpart or beta-spectrin Winston-Salem mRNA. Our findings are an example of how mutations in different splice sites, although causing the same truncating effect, result in clearly different clinical pictures.

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Point MutationAcanthocytesAdultAnemia, HemolyticBase SequenceBlotting, WesternDNA Mutational AnalysisFamily HealthFemaleHumansMaleReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA Splice SitesSpectrinSpherocytesSpherocytosis, HereditaryRNA Splice SitesSpectrin

Identifiers

PMID19608679
PMCPMC2791944
OpenAlexW2168510967

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