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Current Zoology(formerly Acta Zoologica Sinica),    2009, 55(6): 430 - 434
Title: Homozygous lethality and heterozygous spotting due to a novel missense mutation in the mouse Kit gene
Authors: Baojin WU, Lijing YIN, Xiaoshu YIN, Weiwei YANG, Bing CHEN, Zhengfeng XUE, Peilin WU
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Abstract:

N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis in mice can be used to study gene function in vivo and to establish genetic mouse models of human disease. In this study, a white spotted mouse (named KitW-1Bao) was obtained by ENU-induced mutagenesis. Inheritance testing showed a single-gene dominant mutation and lethality in the KitW-1Bao homozygous mice. The mutation was mapped to Chromosome 5 between markers D5Mit356 and D5Mit308. The region contains the Kit gene, whose mutations are known to lead to pigmentation defects in mice. Sequence analysis of the Kit cDNA from KitW-1Bao heterozygotes revealed an A to T missense mutation resulting in an amino acid substitution of Asp (D) by Val (V) at amino acid position 849 within a highly conserved tyrosine kinase domain. The combined phenotype displayed by the KitW-1Bao heterozygous and homozygous mutant mice demonstrates the critical function of the highly conserved aspartic acid residue at position 849 in the Kit gene product [Current Zoology 55 (6): 430–434, 2009].


Keywords: White spotting, Death, Mapping, Identification, Kit

*Correspondence should be addressed to Baojin WU (E-mail:baojinwu@163.com).

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