Journal article
Cloning and Mapping of the cDNA for Human Sarcosine Dehydrogenase, a Flavoenzyme Defective in Patients with Sarcosinemia
Genomics (San Diego, Calif.), v 59(3)
01 Aug 1999
PMID: 10444331
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Abstract
Sarcosine dehydrogenase is a liver mitochondrial matrix flavoenzyme that is defective in patients with sarcosinemia, a rare autosomal metabolic defect characterized by elevated levels of sarcosine in blood and urine. Some patients also exhibit mental retardation and growth failure. A full-length cDNA for human sarcosine dehydrogenase was isolated from an adult liver cDNA library. The first 22 residues in the deduced amino acid sequence exhibit features expected for a mitochondrial targeting sequence. The predicted mass of the mature human liver sarcosine dehydrogenase (99,505 Da) is in good agreement with that observed for rat liver sarcosine dehydrogenase (∼100,000 Da). Human sarcosine dehydrogenase exhibits 89% identity with rat liver sarcosine dehydrogenase and strong homology (∼35% identity) with rat liver dimethylglycine dehydrogenase, a sarcosine dehydrogenase-related protein from Rhodobacter capsulatus, and the regulatory subunit from bovine pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase. The human sarcosine dehydrogenase gene is at least 75.3 kb long and located on chromosome 9q34. The adult human liver clone is assembled from 21 exons (1–6, 7a, 8a, 9–21). Two smaller cDNA clones, isolated from adult liver and infant brain libraries, were assembled from the same sarcosine dehydrogenase gene by the use of alternate polyadenylation and splice sites. This is the first report of the genomic structure of the sarcosine dehydrogenase gene in any species. The observed chromosomal location is consistent with genetic studies with a mouse model for sarcosinemia that map the mouse gene to a region of mouse chromosome 2 syntenic with human 9q33–q34. The availability of the SDH gene sequence will enable characterization of the genotypes of sarcosinemia patients with different phenotypes.
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- Title
- Cloning and Mapping of the cDNA for Human Sarcosine Dehydrogenase, a Flavoenzyme Defective in Patients with Sarcosinemia
- Creators
- Michel EschenbrennerMarilyn Schuman Jorns
- Publication Details
- Genomics (San Diego, Calif.), v 59(3)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000082181800006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0344549254
- Other Identifier
- 991014877676104721
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