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Steroid 21-hydroxylase (21-OH) is a key haem containing steroidogenic enzyme and a major adrenal specific autoantigen. Cys 428 in 21-OH is thought to have an important role in haem binding and we now describe the effects of mutations at Cys 428 (to Ser, Arg and Phe) on 21-OH autoantibody binding. Expression of wild type and mutated 21-OH was carried out using an in vitro transcription/translation (TnT) system and reactivity of 21-OH autoantibodies with mutated 21-OH analysed by western blotting (in the case of unlabelled proteins) or immunoprecipitation assay (IPA) (in the case of 35S-labelled proteins). All 3 substitutions at Cys 428 had similar effects on 21-OH autoantibody binding and each one caused a reduction in autoantibody binding to about 50% of wild type in the case of IPA and to about 70% of wild type in the case of western blotting analysis. In addition to mutations at Cys 428, we studied 2 naturally occurring mutations at Pro 30 to Leu and Ile 172 to Asn which are associated with diminished 21-OH enzyme activity. The Pro 30 mutation had no effect, but the Ile 172 mutation caused a reduction in 21-OH autoantibody binding in the IPA to about 80% of wild type. Overall, our studies emphasise the close relationship between the 21-OH aminoacid sequences important for 21-OH enzyme activity and 21-OH autoantibody binding.
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