Abstract
Mutations in the insulin receptor gene cause several genetic syndromes associated with extreme insulin resistance. We have studied three insulin resistant siblings with acanthosis nigricans, dental abnormalities, and acral hypertrophy. The female patient also had primary amenorrhea due to hyperandrogenism. All three patients were compound heterozygotes with two mutant alleles of the insulin receptor gene. One allele had a 10-bp deletion in the region of exon 1 encoding the hydrophobic signal peptide; this leads to a frameshift and premature chain termination at codon 61. The deletion occurs at the site of a direct repeat of a hexanucleotide sequence interrupted by a tetranucleotide sequence; the deletion may have resulted from recombination between the upstream and downstream hexanucleotide repeats. In the other mutant allele, there is a missense mutation substituting serine for Asn462 — a mutation identified previously in one allele of the insulin receptor gene in a patient with type-A insulin resistance. The Ser462 mutation impaired the ability of acidic pH to dissociate insulin from the receptor. Thus, like the previously described Glu460 mutation, the Ser462 mutation may retard dissociation of insulin from the receptor in the acidic compartment of the endosome and may, as a result, accelerate the rate of receptor degradation.
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Cama, A., de la Luz Sierra, M., Kadowaki, T. et al. Two mutant alleles of the insulin receptor gene in a family with a genetic form of insulin resistance: a 10 base pair deletion in exon 1 and a mutation substituting serine for asparagine-462. Hum Genet 95, 174–182 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209397
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