Abstract
Cystinuria (MIM 220100) is a common recessive disorder of renal reabsorption of cystine and dibasic amino acids. Mutations in SLC3A1, encoding rBAT, cause cystinuria type I (ref. 1), but not other types of cystinuria (ref, 2). A gene whose mutation causes non-type I cystinuria has been mapped by linkage analysis to 19q12-13.1 (refs 3,4). We have identified a new transcript, encoding a protein (b(o,+)AT, for b(o,+) amino acid transporter) belonging to a family of light subunits of amino acid transporters, expressed in kidney, liver, small intestine and placenta, and localized its gene (SLC7A9) to the non-type I cystinuria 19q locus. Co- transfection of b(o,+)AT and rBAT brings the latter to the plasma membrane, and results in the uptake of L-arginine in COS cells. We have found SLC7A9 mutations in Libyan-Jews, North American, Italian and Spanish non-type I cystinuria patients. The Libyan Jewish patients are homozygous for a founder missense mutation (V170M) that abolishes b(o,+)AT amino-acid uptake activity when co-transfected with rBAT in COS cells. We identified four missense mutations (G105R, A182T, G195R and G295R) and two frameshift (520insT and 596delTG) mutations in other patients. Our data establish that mutations in SLC7A9 cause non-type I cystinuria, and suggest that b(o,+)AT is the light subunit of rBAT.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 52-57 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Nature Genetics |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1999 |
Funding
We thank the families for contributing; A. Ros for cell culture; J. García for technical assistance; the YAC Screening Center at San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park and the Serveis Científico-Tècnics de la Universitat de Barcelona for some of the sequences; and R. Rycroft for editorial help. This research was supported in part by Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica research grant PM96/0060 from Spain to M.P.; BIOMED2 CT98-BMH4-3514 EC grant to V.N., M.P. and P.G. and CT97-BMH4-2284 (EURO-IMAGE) EC grant to X.E. and A.B.; Fundació La Marató-TV3 research grant 981930 to V.N. and M.P.; Generalitat de Catalunya Grants 1997 SGR 121 and 1997 SGR 00085, Italian Telethon Foundation grants (E556) to L.Z.; the Merck Genome Research Institute (MGRI grant 37); and Ministero Italiano della Sanità grant to P.G.. E.F. and D.T. are recipients of fellowships from the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Spain); M.P., L.F., J.P., M.F., N.R. and R.E. are recipients of fellowships from the Comissió Interdepartamental de Recerca i Innovació Tecnològica (Catalonia, Spain); and J.K.E. was supported by a research fellowship from The National Kidney Foundation.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Genetics