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It has been previously reported that minoxidil inhibits the activity of lysyl hydroxylase (LH), an enzyme which catalyzes the formation of hydroxylysine, which is necessary for proper maturation of collagen at the transcriptional and enzymatic levels. Using the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, we confirmed that this inhibition occurred at least at the transcriptional level. Furthermore, we took advantage of this sensitive and rapid method to perform a quantitative structure activity relation study using several compounds structurally related to minoxidil. We found that when the C6 of the pyrimidinyl moiety was substituted, it had to be by a tertiary nitrogen, i.e. an N-piperidin ring for the inhibition of LH mRNA synthesis to be observed. Surprisingly, however, we found that 2,4-diamino-pyrimidin-3-oxide, a new compound lacking an organic moiety para to the nitroxide oxygen, also retained a high inhibitory effect on LH mRNA expression, comparable to that of minoxidil. We thus conclude that the presence of a substituent para to the nitroxide oxygen is dispensable for inhibition of LH mRNA to be observed in vitro. This brings new insights into the design of therapeutic agents useful in any condition where an overproduction of mature collagen is unwanted, i.e. accelerated wound healing, keloids and localized scleroderma.
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PMID:A minoxidil-related compound lacking a C6 substitution still exhibits strong anti-lysyl hydroxylase activity in vitro. 873 14

We have characterized a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI as a compound heterozygote for the lysyl hydroxylase (LH) gene, with a pathogenetic mutation in each allele contributing to the very low levels of mRNA and LH activity in his fibroblasts. Amplification of full-length LH cDNAs resulted in normal-sized (2.9-kb) and shortened (2.8-kb) transcripts indicative of two populations of alleles. One allele contained a paternally inherited C1557 to G transition that coded for a premature stop codon (Y511X) and introduced an Nhe I restriction site in exon 14 of the LH gene. The mutation in the other allele was an exon 5 deletion that produced the shortened polymerase chain reaction transcript and generated a premature stop codon at the beginning of exon 7. Sequencing of genomic DNAs spanning exon 5 showed a mutation in the consensus donor splice site at the beginning of intron 5 (gt-->at) in both the proband and his mother. Via reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, the parents' fibroblasts showed a disproportionately lower level of each mutant allele compared to their normal alleles. This study suggests that the decreased transcription of the LH gene, which may be attributed to the presence of the nonsense mutations, accounts for the LH deficiency, and consequently, this patient's clinical phenotype of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI.
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PMID:Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI results from a nonsense mutation and a splice site-mediated exon-skipping mutation in the lysyl hydroxylase gene. 922 May 36