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Query: UNIPROT:P01185 (vasopressin)
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Hereditary diabetes insipidus can occur in two forms: the first, referred to as central diabetes insipidus, is responsive to vasopressin whereas the second, termed nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, is resistant to treatment. Recent advances in molecular genetics have contributed to elucidate the pathogenesis of these affections. Familial central diabetes insipidus depicts two unsimilar illnesses. The first, characterized by an autosomal dominant transmission, is of delayed onset and worsens progressively all through life. It is related to a heterozygous mutation of the vasopressin precursor gene mainly involving either the sequence encoding for the signal peptide or the one encoding for neurophysin II, the hormone carrier protein. Mutations described to date are responsible for impairment of vasopressin precursor transportation and processing. Therefore mutant protein accumulates in the posterior pituitary which is involved in the persistant bright spot seen on magnetic resonance imaging. The second illness or Wolfram syndrome, autosomal recessive, associates obligatory features: insulin-dependant diabetes, bilateral optic atrophy and more inconstantly: diabetes insipidus, deafness, genito-urinary and neuropsychiatric disturbances. The cause of this syndrome, still unknown, may involve mitochondrial ADN mutations. Familial nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, of neonatal onset, are mainly X-linked and associated to mutations in the V2 receptor gene. About 60 mutations have been described until now. Some rare cases, transmission of which is autosomal recessive, result from homozygous mutations of aquaporin 2 gene, a water channel involved in the water reabsorption in the renal collecting duct. Other mutations will be probably discovered in future. In conclusion, familial diabetes insipidus constitutes an interesting pathogenic model because it may be explained by impairment of vasopressin gene precursor as well as by abnormalities of renal receptor or post receptor mechanisms of the hormone.
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PMID:[Congenital diabetes insipidus. Recent advances in molecular genetics]. 868 70

Familial central diabetes insipidus is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait with almost complete penetrance. Twenty-three different mutations of the arginine vasopressin-neurophysin II gene have been reported to date, located within the signal peptide-, the arginine vasopressin-, or the neurophysin II-coding region. In the present study two kindreds with familial central diabetes insipidus were examined. The entire coding region of the arginine vasopressin-neurophysin II gene of one affected subject of each family was amplified by PCR and subcloned into a pUC 18 plasmid, and six positive clones were sequenced. After identification of the mutation, direct sequencing was performed on the respective sequence of family members and 28 healthy control subjects. In family A, a missense mutation (C-->T) at nucleotide position 280 was detected, predicting the substitution of alanine by valine at position -1 of the signal peptide. All affected subjects were heterozygote for the mutation, whereas none of the unaffected family members or control subjects displayed the mutant sequence. In family B, a missense mutation within the neurophysin II-coding sequence was identified (nucleotide 1757, G-->C), predicting the substitution of glycine by arginine at position 23. Again, affected family members were found to be heterozygote for the mutation, which was not observed in unaffected family members or in control subjects. Although the mutation of family A was recently described in 3 other kindreds as well, the mutation within the neurophysin II-coding region represents a novel mutation of the AVP-NP II gene.
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PMID:Identification of mutations of the arginine vasopressin-neurophysin II gene in two kindreds with familial central diabetes insipidus. 946 95