Thromb Haemost 2000; 84(02): 307-311
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614012
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A Novel Point Mutation of the Splicing Donor Site in the Intron 2 of the Plasmin Inhibitor Gene

Haruhiko Yoshinaga
1   From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
,
Shinsaku Hirosawa
1   From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
,
Dong Hui Chung
1   From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
,
Nobuyuki Miyasaka
1   From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
,
Nobuo Aoki
1   From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
,
Remi Favier
2   Laboratory of Hematology and Hemostasis, Hospital Armand Trousseau, Paris, France
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This study was supported in part by a research grant to R. F. from the French Society of Pediatric Pathology and grants to S. H. for intractable diseases from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan.
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Received 07 December 1999

Accepted after revision 16 March 2000

Publication Date:
14 December 2017 (online)

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Summary

Plasmin inhibitor (PI) is a major physiological inhibitor of plasminmediated fibrinolysis; hence, its deficiency results in a severe haemorrhagic diathesis. We analyzed the PI gene of a French boy apparently homozygous for PI deficiency and his heterozygous parents. Both alleles of the homozygous patient had a novel G to A transition at the consensus splicing donor site in the intron 2 of the PI gene. In an expression assay using the heterologous cells transfected with the mutant PI expression vector, 3 types of aberrant transcripts using a cryptic splicing donor site within the intron 2 were detected. All of these mRNAs had a stop codon upstream of the cryptic splicing site and encode only 25 amino acids, comprising the first 21 amino acids of the signal peptide (27 amino acids) plus 4 new amino acids. This mutant was designated as PI-Paris-Trousseau.