RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Molecular genetic basis of rapid and slow acetylation in mice.
JF Molecular Pharmacology
JO Mol Pharmacol
FD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
SP 218
OP 227
VO 40
IS 2
A1 K J Martell
A1 K P Vatsis
A1 W W Weber
YR 1991
UL http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/40/2/218.abstract
AB The molecular genetic basis of N-acetylation polymorphism has been investigated in inbred mouse models of the human acetylation polymorphism. Two genomic clones, Nat1 and Nat2, were isolated from a C57BL/6J (B6) mouse (rapid acetylator) genomic library. The Nat1 and Nat2 genes both have intronless coding regions of 870 nucleotides and display greater than 47% deduced amino acid similarity with human, rabbit, and chicken N-acetyltransferases. Amplification of Nat1 and Nat2 from A/J (A) mouse (slow acetylator) genomic DNA by the polymerase chain reaction and subsequent sequencing revealed that Nat1 was identical in B6 and A mice, whereas Nat2 contained a single nucleotide change from adenine in B6 to thymine in A mice. This nucleotide substitution changes the deduced amino acid at position 99 from asparagine in B6 to isoleucine in A mice. Hydropathy analysis revealed that this amino acid change alters the hydropathy of the flanking peptide segment in NAT2 from hydrophilic in the B6 mouse to hydrophobic in the A mouse. The amino acid change occurs in a region of the gene where no polymorphism has yet been reported in human or rabbit NAT2 and may represent an important structural domain for N-acetyltransferase activity. Nat1 and Nat2 have the same 5' to 3' orientation in the B6 mouse; the two genes are separated by approximately 9 kilobases, with Nat1 located 5' of Nat2.