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- Proteins A,B,C, and D in the diagram are encoded by different genes and interact with each other. Imagine that a mutation in the gene for protein A changes one of the charged amino acid in the red circle area from positive to negative charge (blue arrow). this mutation results in a mutant phenotype. Assume a mutation in the gene for protein B occurs and the double mutants have a phenotype that is almost wild type. How would you best describe the mutation in gene B? Protein C Proten A Protein B Protein B Wild type Mutation in the gene for protein ALeber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a form of congenital blindness in humans and is known to be caused by homozygosity for recessive mutations in the RPE65 gene. Recently, a rare dominant mutation in RPE65 has been implicated as one cause of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which is characterized by retinal degeneration that can progress to blindness. The dominant RPE65 mutation is a missense mutation causing amino acid 447 in the polypeptide to change from Asp to Glu. Little is known about the nature of the mutant protein. a. Do you think that the dominant allele is more likely a loss-of-function or a gain-of-function mutation? Explain. b. Recently a group of clinicians and scientists reported that gene therapy (gene replacement therapy) for LCA has been at least partially successful. Do you think that the same kind of gene therapy can be used for patients with retinitis pigmentosa caused by the dominant mutant allele of RPE65? Explain.Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) causes progressive vision loss due to defects in the gene that encodes RPE65 isomerase. Affected individuals are homozygous recessive for mutant alleles of the RPE65 gene. You are trying to determine the molecular nature of the mutations in three individuals with LCA. For ease of analysis, you may assume that each individual is homozygous for the same mutant allele (though the three individuals have different mutations than each other). You use the polymerase chain reaction to amplify DNA from each patient and you determine the sequence of the DNA and compare it to unaffected individuals. You identify the following differences. Note that the non-template strand of DNA is given and the changes are highlighted using red boldface. You can assume that the sequences are in the first reading frame (eg. the first three nucleotides of each sequence is a codon). The coding region of the gene is 1602 bp and the position of the sequences shown below is…
- Researchers have identified a gene in humans that (when mutated) causes tremors and unstable walking due to neurological problems. This disorder is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner, and the mutant allele isknown to result from a loss-of-function mutation. The same gene hasbeen found in mice, although a mutant mouse version has not beendiscovered. To develop an effective drug therapy to treat this disorderin humans, it would be experimentally useful to have a mouse model.In other words, it would be desirable to develop a strain of mice thatcarry the mutant allele in the homozygous condition. How would youdevelop such a strain?Our understanding of maternal effect genes has been greatly aided by their identification in experimental organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans. In experimental organisms with a short generation time, geneticists have successfully searched for mutant alleles that prevent the normal process of embryonic development. In many cases, the offspring die at early embryonic or larval stages. These are called maternal effect lethal alleles. How would a researcher identify a mutation that produced a recessive maternal effect lethal allele?Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in the gene that encodes dystrophin, a large protein that plays an important role in the development of normal muscle fibers. The Dystrophin gene is immense, spanning 2.5 million base pairs, and includes 79 exons and 78 introns. Many of the mutations that cause DMD produce premature stop codons, which bring protein synthesis to a halt, resulting in a greatly shortened and nonfunctional form of dystrophin. Some geneticists have proposed treating DMD patients by introducing small RNA molecules that cause the spliceosome to skip the exon containing the stop codon (A. Goyenvalle et al., 2004. Science 306:1796–1799). The introduction of the small RNAs will produce a protein that is somewhat shortened because an exon is skipped and some amino acids are missing, but it may still result in a protein that has some function. The small RNAs, antisense RNAs, used for exon skipping are complementary to…
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in the gene that encodes dystrophin, a large protein that plays an important role in the development of normal muscle fibers. The dystrophin gene is immense, spanning 2.5 million base pairs, and includes 79 exons and 78 introns. Many of the mutations that cause DMD produce premature stop codons, which bring protein synthesis to a halt, resulting in a greatly shortened and nonfunctionalform of dystrophin. Some geneticists have proposed treating DMD patients by causing the spliceosome to skip the exon containing the stop codon. Exon skipping would produce a protein that is somewhat shortened (because an exon is skipped and some amino acids are missing), but might still result in a protein that had some function (A. Goyenvalle et al. 2004. Science 306:1796–1799). Propose a possible mechanism to bring about exon skipping for the treatment of DMD.In McCune-Albright syndrome, fibrous connective tissue replaces bone, tan patches (café-au-lait spots) dot the skin, and hormone abnormalities cause early puberty and malfunction of the thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands. The phenotype is highly variable, and all patients are somatic mosaics for the mutation, which is in the gene GNAS1. Why is the condition seen only in mosaics?Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a disorder that primarily affects the function of skeletal muscles used for movement and cardiac muscles used for heart beating. Dystrophin is a protein encoded by a single gene, DMD, that is expressed in skeletal and cardiac muscle. Some forms of muscular dystrophy may be caused by different mutations in the DNA sequence of the DMD gene. Because the DMD locus is on the X chromosome, males are affected at higher rates. Two brothers, one of whom has DMD and one of whom does not, worked with their genetic counselor (Links to an external site.) to have their DMD gene sequenced to identify genetic variation that may explain why one brother was affected and the other not. Because DMD is a very long gene, a fictionalized, simplified model of the results is presented here (Figure 1). The actual DMD mRNA is about 16,000 base-pairs!------Consider single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) #1 (Figure 1). Is this mutation likely to cause Duchenne muscular…
- One of the two genes known to be mutated in cases of Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (which is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern but known to affect males more often than females) is the calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1 S (CACNA1S). What is known about the gene is recorded here: https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000081248;r=1:201039512-201112451 Please navigate to the link above and use the information and link-outs from the page to answer the following question. GIVE YOUR ANSWER AS A NUMBER ONLY, NO UNITS: What is the size in amino acid residues of the CACNA1S transcript named CACNA1S-202? Answer: The size of the CACNA1S transcript named CACNA1S-202 is how many amino acid residues.One of the two genes known to be mutated in cases of Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (which is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern but known to affect males more often than females) is the calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1 S (CACNA1S). What is known about the gene is recorded here: https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000081248;r=1:201039512-201112451 Please navigate to the link above and ensure that you click to reveal the transcript table. Then use the information in the table to answer the following question. PLEASE GIVE YOUR ANSWER AS A NUMBER ONLY, NO UNITS What is the size in base pairs of the CACNA1S transcript named CACNA1S-202? Answer: The size of the CACNA1S transcript named CACNA1S-202 isOne of the two genes known to be mutated in cases of Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (which is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern but known to affect males more often than females) is the calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1 S (CACNA1S). What is known about the gene is recorded here: https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000081248;r=1:201039512-201112451 Please navigate to the link above and use the information and link-outs from the page to answer the following questions ANSWER ONLY IN UPPERCASE LETTERS, NO UNITS: Using the left-hand menu to view the sequence for CACNA1S, what are the last three nucleic acid bases of exon 1?