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Familial essential thrombocythemia associated with a dominant-positive activating mutation of the c-MPL gene, which encodes for the receptor for thrombopoietin.

Abstract
One Japanese pedigree of familial essential thrombocythemia (FET) inherited in an autosomal-dominant manner is presented. A unique point mutation, serine 505 to asparagine 505 (Ser505Asn), was identified in the transmembrane domain of the c-MPL gene in all of the 8 members with thrombocythemia, but in none of the other 8 unaffected members in this FET family. The Ba/F3 cells expressing the mutant Asn505 acquired interleukin 3 (IL-3)-independent survival capacity, whereas those expressing wild-type Ser505 did not. The autonomous phosphorylation of Mek1/2 and Stat5b was observed in the mutant Ba/F3 cells in the absence of IL-3. The former was also found in platelets derived from the affected individual in the absence of thrombopoietin. These results show that the Asn505 is an activating mutation with respect to the intracellular signaling and survival of the cells. This is the first report of FET deriving from a dominant-positive activating mutation of the c-MPL gene.
AuthorsJianmin Ding, Hirokazu Komatsu, Atsushi Wakita, Miyuki Kato-Uranishi, Masato Ito, Atsushi Satoh, Kazuya Tsuboi, Masakazu Nitta, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Shinsuke Iida, Ryuzo Ueda
JournalBlood (Blood) Vol. 103 Issue 11 Pg. 4198-200 (Jun 01 2004) ISSN: 0006-4971 [Print] United States
PMID14764528 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins
  • Receptors, Cytokine
  • Receptors, Thrombopoietin
  • MPL protein, human
  • Thrombopoietin
Topics
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Female
  • Genes, Dominant
  • Humans
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Proteins (genetics, metabolism)
  • Pedigree
  • Phosphorylation
  • Point Mutation
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins (genetics, metabolism)
  • Receptors, Cytokine (genetics, metabolism)
  • Receptors, Thrombopoietin
  • Signal Transduction (physiology)
  • Thrombocythemia, Essential (genetics)
  • Thrombopoietin (metabolism)
  • Transfection

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