Studies on mutant human insulin genes: identification and sequence analysis of a gene encoding [SerB24]insulin.
Haneda M., Chan S.J., Kwok S.C.M., Rubenstein A.H., Steiner D.F.
Both alleles of the insulin gene of a patient with mild diabetes [maturity-onset-diabetes-of-the-young (MODY)-type syndrome] associated with hyperinsulinemia have been cloned, and the sequences have been determined. One allele contained a mutation (single nucleotide transition) in the coding sequence for the B chain at position 24 (TTC leads to TCC), resulting in the loss of a restriction enzyme (Mbo II) cleavage site in the gene. This mutation results in the substitution of serine for phenylalanine in a critically important region of the insulin molecule that is intimately involved in receptor binding. Both insulin alleles were of the alpha type and, aside from a single nucleotide deletion in the 5' region of the normal allele, their sequences were identical to those previously determined.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80:6366-6370(1983) [PubMed] [Europe PMC]