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NEWSLETTER #16, May 4, 1990

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1. M. Dean, M.B. White, B. Gerrard and C. Stewart report the sequence of 2 more mutations (1154insTC and 1214delT) in exon 7; both are frameshift mutations found in single families. Since the quality of the original fax is poor (I told Mike but he has not sent another one), the 2 mutations are briefly summarized below. I have also taken the liberty of changing the name of the 2 to conform with the proposed nomenclature scheme. These mutations were detected by SSCP gel electrophoresis of the PCR products generated by using the previously reported primers CF34 and CF35. The 1154insTC mutation is an insertion of 2 bp (TC) after nucleotide position 1154 and it may be detected by heteroduplexes on polyacrylamide gel following digestion with Msp I or Dde I; 1214delT is a deletion of 1 bp (T) at 1214 and it destroys an Nla III site. The 2 mutations were not found on 225 other non-[[Delta]]F CF chromosomes. There is no haplotype information. Mike is willing to provide PCR primers and ASOs; the original letter is attached.

2. Kerem, Zielenski, Bozon and Tsui report the identification of 3 additional mutations:

(a) 3659delC- a frameshift mutation in exon 19 in a single CF chromosome (Toronto family #2); deletion of C at nucleotide position 3659 or 3960; haplotype IIa; not present in 57 non-[[Delta]]F508 CF chromosomes (7 from IIa) and 50 N chromosomes (43 from IIa); the deletion may be detected by PCR with a common oligonucleotide primer 19i-5 (see below) and 2 ASO primers, HSC8 (5'-GTA TGG TTT GGT TGA CTT GG-3') for the normal and HSC9 (5'-GTA TGG TTT GGT TGA CTT GT-3') for the mutant allele; the PCR condition is as usual except the annealing temperature is at 60[[ring]]C to improve specificity;

(b) 556delA- a frameshift mutation in exon 4 in a single CF chromosome (Toronto family #17, GM1076); deletion of A at nucleotide position 556; haplotype IIIb; not found in 31 other CF chromosomes (9 from IIIb) and 30 N chromosomes (16 from IIIb); the mutation creates a Bgl I site; PCR primers are 4i-5 and 4i-3 (see below); the enzyme cuts the mutant PCR product (437 bp) into 2 fragments of 287 and 150 bp in size;

(c) 621+1G->T- a single bp change affecting the splice site (GT->TT) at the 3' end of exon 4; this mutation is detected in 5 French-Canadian CF chromosomes (one each in Toronto families #22, 23, 26, 36 and 53) but not in 33 other CF chromosomes (18 from the same group, group I) and 29 N chromosomes (13 from group I); the mutation creates a Mse I site; genomic DNA may be amplified by the 2 intron primers, 4i-5 and 4i-3, and cut with MseI to distinquish the N and mutant alleles; the normal would give 4 fragments of 33, 35, 71 and 298 bp in size; the 298 bp fragment in the mutant is cleaved by the enzyme to give a 54 and a 244 bp fragments.

3. The exon/intron boundary sequences for exon 4, 7, 19 and 22, provided by Julian Zielenski (Tsui), are attached. The revised sequences for exons 10, 11, 14a, 15, 20 and 21 are also attached (we apologize for the errors). The rest will come soon.

4. The new FAX number for Cassiman is (32) 16-21.59.97.

Best regards,