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  • Title: Abnormal processing of the glycoprotein IIb transcript due to a nonsense mutation in exon 17 associated with Glanzmann's thrombasthenia.
    Author: Tomiyama Y, Kashiwagi H, Kosugi S, Shiraga M, Kanayama Y, Kurata Y, Matsuzawa Y.
    Journal: Thromb Haemost; 1995 May; 73(5):756-62. PubMed ID: 7482399.
    Abstract:
    We analyzed the molecular genetic defect responsible for type I Glanzmann's thrombasthenia in a Japanese patient. In an immunoblot assay using polyclonal anti-GpIIb-IIIa antibodies, some GPIIIa (15% of normal amount) could be detected in the patient's platelets, whereas GPIIb could not (< 2% of normal amount). Nucleotide sequence analysis of platelet GPIIb mRNA-derived polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products revealed that patient's GPIIb cDNA had a 75-bp deletion in the 3' boundary of exon 17 resulting in an in-frame deletion of 25 amino acids. DNA analysis and family study revealed that the patient was a compound heterozygote of two GPIIb gene defects. One allele derived from her father was not expressed in platelets, and the other allele derived from her mother had a 9644C--> T mutation which was located at the position -3 of the splice donor junction of exon 17 and resulted in a termination codon (TGA). Moreover, quantitative analysis demonstrated that the amount of the abnormal GPIIb transcript in the patient's platelets was markedly reduced. Thus, the C --> T mutation resulting in the abnormal splicing of GPIIb transcript and the reduction in its amount is responsible for Glanzmann's thrombasthenia.
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