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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on August 22, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-04-1169.
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Blood, 15 December 2002, Vol. 100, No. 13, pp. 4655-4659
RED CELLS
The zebrafish mutant gene chardonnay (cdy)
encodes divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1)
Adriana Donovan,
Alison Brownlie,
Michael O. Dorschner,
Yi Zhou,
Stephen J. Pratt,
Barry H. Paw,
Ruth B. Phillips,
Christine Thisse,
Bernard Thisse, and
Leonard I. Zon
From the Department of Hematology/Oncology, and Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital, Boston MA; Institut de
Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire,
CNRS/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche
Médicale (INSERM)/ULP, BP 163, CU de Strasbourg 1, BP163, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France; Department of
Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle; School of Biological
Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver; Department of
Medicine, Washington University, St Louis MO; and Xenon Genetics,
Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Iron is an essential nutrient required for the function of all
cells, most notably for the production of hemoglobin in red blood
cells. Defects in the mechanisms of iron absorption, storage, or
utilization can lead to disorders of iron-limited erythropoiesis or
iron overload. In an effort to further understand these processes, we
have used the zebrafish as a genetic system to study vertebrate iron metabolism. Here we characterized the phenotype of
chardonnay (cdy), a zebrafish mutant
with hypochromic, microcytic anemia, and positioned the mutant gene on
linkage group 11. The cdy gene was isolated by a functional
genomics approach in which we used a combination of expression studies,
sequence analyses, and radiation hybrid panel mapping. We identified
erythroid-specific genes using a whole embryo mRNA in situ
hybridization screen and placed these genes on the zebrafish genomic
map. One of these genes encoded the iron transporter divalent metal
transporter 1 (DMT1) and colocalized with the cdy gene. We
identified a nonsense mutation in the cdy allele and
demonstrated that, whereas wild-type zebrafish DMT1 protein can
transport iron, the truncated protein expressed in cdy
mutants is not functional. Our studies further demonstrate the
conservation of iron metabolism in vertebrates and suggest the
existence of an alternative pathway of intestinal and red blood cell
iron uptake.

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