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A polymerase II. The binding between mutated parafibromin with these complexes and/or their cofactors, such as Leo1 and CTR9 has been investigated in other cases. However, the CDC73 protein binding domain interacting with the PAFI complex is located at residues 226-413, far from the mutation sites reported here and it is unlikely that any variant at the positions 77-84 could interfere with a protein domain located more than 150 residues downstream. Thus in our cases we presumed that this binding domain was not influenced by the NoLS mutation. However as reported above, our NoLS mutated proteins were almost totally degraded and if not degraded, they mislocalized in 2 cases out of 3 while the PAFI and their co-factors are nuclear, thus with no supposed interaction. In the third case the protein localized partially into the nucleus and we can not exclude that a correct interaction with the above 7 Three Novel NoLS 1022150-57-7 supplier Mutations in CDC73 Gene doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082292.g005 mentioned complexes could occur . Nevertheless 19320832 we believe that the main effect of these mutations resides in the high instability and, consequently, in the strong reduced expression of the mutated proteins. The different sensitization at the proteasome degradation pathway of missense mutations has been reported for other tumor suppressor genes. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that proteolytic degradation is a relatively common mechanism for loss of function of tumor suppressor genes, at the same time giving rise to the possibility of new therapeutic interventions as proposed for other diseases. In conclusion our work shed light on the outcome of novel mutations of the NoLS 76-92 of CDC73 gene. We found that the mutated proteins were highly instable and subjected to a critical transcriptional and translational degradation processes. Particularly the possibility that a pre-translational degradation may be responsible of loss of function of these mutated 20573509 proteins will require further investigation. Moreover protein misfolding of the NoLS sequence might cause a dramatic displacement of the primary NLS 125-139, thus leading to a cytoplasmic mislocalisation of residual mutated protein product. 8 Three Novel NoLS Mutations in CDC73 Gene Three Novel NoLS Mutations in CDC73 GeneThree Novel NoLS Mutations in CDC73 GeneThree Novel NoLS Mutations in CDC73 Gene Acknowledgements The Authors gratefully acknowledge the patients and the families participating in this study. They also acknowledge Antonella Marucci, Lucia Fischetti, Filomena Cappucci and Anna Panza for their helpful technical support. data: VP AlT M. Chetta LAM LC LDA M. Carella. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Chetta M. Copetti FP. Wrote the manuscript: VP AS VG. Acquisition of clinical data: CB DK KK DAA KP ES LZ AS. Revising the article critically for important intellectual content: DECC GNH AS VG. APP, a single transmembrane protein with a long N-terminal extracellular domain and a short cytoplasmic domain, can be processed by two distinct pathways to generate multiple cleaved products. In the primary pathway, a-secretase catalyzes the cleavage of APP to generate a soluble peptide, sAPPa, which includes Ab sequence, thereby preventing Ab generation. In the alternative pathway, b-secretase cleaves APP to generate an alternate soluble peptide, sAPPb, followed by c-secretase to generate Ab. The start of APP expression occurs when neurons initiate differentiation at embryonic day 9.5 i