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Molecular Analysis of the Third Component of Canine Complement (C3) and Identification of the Mutation Responsible for Hereditary Canine C3 Deficiency¹

Rohan Ameratunga^*, Jerry A. Winkelstein^2,*, Lawrence Brody^§, Matthew Binns^||, Linda C. Cork^¶, Paul Colombani and David Valle^*,

Departments of ^* Pediatrics and Surgery, and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287; ^§ Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892; ^¶ Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, CA 94305; and ^|| Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Genetically determined deficiency of the third component of complement (C3) in the dog is characterized by a predisposition to recurrent bacterial infections and to type 1 membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. The current studies were undertaken to characterize the cDNA for wild-type canine C3 and identify the molecular basis for hereditary canine C3 deficiency. Amplification, cloning, and sequence analysis indicated that canine C3 is highly conserved in comparison with human, mouse, and guinea pig C3. Southern blot analysis failed to show any gross deletions or rearrangements of DNA from C3-deficient animals. Northern blot analysis indicated that the livers of these animals contain markedly reduced quantities of a normal length C3 mRNA. The full-length 5.1-kb canine C3 cDNA was amplified in overlapping PCR fragments. Sequence analysis of these fragments has shown a deletion of a cytosine at position 2136 (codon 712), leading to a frameshift that generates a stop codon 11 amino acids downstream. The deletion has been confirmed in genomic DNA, and its inheritance has been demonstrated by allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization.

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