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Publications [#281814] of Thomas B. Kepler

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  1. Gangi-Peterson, L; Sorscher, DH; Reynolds, JW; Kepler, TB; Mitchell, BS, Nucleotide pool imbalance and adenosine deaminase deficiency induce alterations of N-region insertions during V(D)J recombination., Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 103 no. 6 (March, 1999), pp. 833-841, ISSN 0021-9738 [10079104], [doi]
    (last updated on 2018/07/04)

    Abstract:
    Template-independent nucleotide additions (N regions) generated at sites of V(D)J recombination by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) increase the diversity of antigen receptors. Two inborn errors of purine metabolism, deficiencies of adenosine deaminase (ADA) and purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP), result in defective lymphoid development and aberrant pools of 2'-deoxynucleotides that are substrates for TdT in lymphoid precursors. We have asked whether selective increases in dATP or dGTP pools result in altered N regions in an extrachromosomal substrate transfected into T-cell or pre-B-cell lines. Exposure of the transfected cells to 2'-deoxyadenosine and an ADA inhibitor increased the dATP pool and resulted in a marked increase in A-T insertions at recombination junctions, with an overall decreased frequency of V(D)J recombination. Sequence analysis of VH-DH-JH junctions from the IgM locus in B-cell lines from ADA-deficient patients demonstrated an increase in A-T insertions equivalent to that found in the transfected cells. In contrast, elevation of dGTP pools, as would occur in PNP deficiency, did not alter the already rich G-C content of N regions. We conclude that the frequency of V(D)J recombination and the composition of N-insertions are influenced by increases in dATP levels, potentially leading to alterations in antigen receptors and aberrant lymphoid development. Alterations in N-region insertions may contribute to the B-cell dysfunction associated with ADA deficiency.

    Keywords:
    Adenosine Deaminase • Adenosine Deaminase Inhibitors • Adenosine Triphosphate • Cells, Cultured • DNA Nucleotidylexotransferase • Deoxyadenosines • Deoxyguanine Nucleotides • Deoxyribonucleotides • Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte • Humans • Immunoglobulin M • Purine-Pyrimidine Metabolism, Inborn Errors • Recombination, Genetic* • Sequence Analysis, DNA • deficiency* • enzymology* • genetics • metabolism • metabolism* • pharmacology


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