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- Title
The gene mutated in bare patches and striated mice encodes a novel 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.
- Authors
Liu, Xiao Yu; Dangel, Andrew W.; Kelley, Richard I.; Zhao, Wei; Denny, Paul; Botcherby, Marc; Cattanach, Bruce; Peters, Jo; Hunsicker, Patricia R.; Mallon, Ann-Marie; Strivens, Mark A.; Bate, Rachael; Miller, Webb; Rhodes, Michael; Brown, Stephen D.M.; Herman, Gail E.
- Abstract
X-linked dominant disorders that are exclusively lethal prenatally in hemizygous males have been described in human and mouse. None of the genes responsible has been isolated in either species. The bare patches (Bpa) and striated (Str) mouse mutations were originally identified in female offspring of X-irradiated males. Subsequently, additional independent alleles were described. We have previously mapped these X-linked dominant, male-lethal mutations to an overlapping region of 600 kb that is homologous to human Xq28 (ref. 4) and identified several candidate genes in this interval. Here we report mutations in one of these genes, Nsdhl, encoding an NAD(P)H steroid dehydrogenase-like protein, in two independent Bpa and three independent Str alleles. Quantitative analysis of sterols from tissues of affected Bpa mice support a role for Nsdhl in cholesterol biosynthesis. Our results demonstrate that Bpa and Str are allelic mutations and identify the first mammalian locus associated with an X-linked dominant, male-lethal phenotype. They also expand the spectrum of phenotypes associated with abnormalities of cholesterol metabolism.
- Subjects
X chromosome abnormalities; GENETIC mutation
- Publication
Nature Genetics, 1999, Vol 22, Issue 2, p182
- ISSN
1061-4036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/9700