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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on August 24, 2007.

Genetics, Vol. 177, 707-721, October 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.071084

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Functional Characterization of Pathogenic Human MSH2 Missense Mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Alison E. Gammie1, Naz Erdeniz2, Julia Beaver3, Barbara Devlin, Afshan Nanji4 and Mark D. Rose

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1014

1 Corresponding author: Department of Molecular Biology, Lewis Thomas Laboratory 353, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544-1014.
E-mail: agammie{at}princeton.edu

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is associated with defects in DNA mismatch repair. Mutations in either hMSH2 or hMLH1 underlie the majority of HNPCC cases. Approximately 25% of annotated hMSH2 disease alleles are missense mutations, resulting in a single change out of 934 amino acids. We engineered 54 missense mutations in the cognate positions in yeast MSH2 and tested for function. Of the human alleles, 55% conferred strong defects, 8% displayed intermediate defects, and 38% showed no defects in mismatch repair assays. Fifty percent of the defective alleles resulted in decreased steady-state levels of the variant Msh2 protein, and 49% of the Msh2 variants lost crucial protein–protein interactions. Finally, nine positions are predicted to influence the mismatch recognition complex ATPase activity. In summary, the missense mutations leading to loss of mismatch repair defined important structure–function relationships and the molecular analysis revealed the nature of the deficiency for Msh2 variants expressed in the tumors. Of medical relevance are 15 human alleles annotated as pathogenic in public databases that conferred no obvious defects in mismatch repair assays. This analysis underscores the importance of functional characterization of missense alleles to ensure that they are the causative factor for disease.




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