ABSTRACT: Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital disorder that results predominantly from mutations in various ribosomal protein genes. In order to determine how these mutations affect the translation of specific mRNAs, we performed microarray analysis of polysomal transcripts isolated from lymphoblast cells derived from DBA patients carrying different haploinsufficient mutations in either RPS19 or RPL11. One of the few overlapping transcripts that we found significantly decreased on the polysomes codes for branched-chain aminotransferase-1 (BCAT-1). We go on to determine that translation of BCAT-1 is especially impaired in cells carrying mutations in the small ribosomal protein genes, and provide evidence that this effect is due to its unusually long 5M-bM-^@M-^YUTR. The BCAT-1 enzyme is cri
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Marian Groot Koerkamp
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-43117 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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