Assessment of OPRMl and HRH2 gene variants in Vietnamese using RFLP-PCR

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VNU Journal of Science, N a tu ral Sciences a n d Technology 25 (2009) 228-233

Assessment o f O P R M l and H R H 2 gene variants in

Vietnamese using RFLP-PCR

Dinh Doan Long*, Nguyen Thi Hong Van, Nguyen Anh Luong,

Tran Thi Thuy Anh

Faculty' o f Biology' C o lle g e o f Scien ce, VNU, Ĩ 3 4 N gu yen Trai, H an oi, lleĩnci}}!

Received 17 December 2009

Abstract The uene encodinu the mu-opioid r c c c p t o r (O P R M Ỉ) has been reported 10 associate w it h

a ra n ge o f s u b s t a n c e d e p e n d e n c e a n d ỈỈR ỊỈ2 is the ge n e c o d i n g h i s t a m i n e ỈỈ2 r e c c p t o r the site o f

a c t io n f o r v a r i o u s c o m p o u n d s , e.g a m i t r i p t ih n e a n d m ia n s e r in , u s e d in the t r e a im e n t o f p s y c h i a t r i c

d is o r d e rs B o t h O PRM Ỉĩxná ỈỈ R ỈỈ2 ge n e s c o n t a i n s o m e s i n g le n u c l e o t i d e p o l y m o r p h i s m s ( S N P s ) ,

including +118A/G in O P R M Ị and +398T/C in HRH2, which were reported to change in protein

s e q u e n c e s a n d r e s u lt in a f f e c t i n g the t h e r a p e u t ic re sp o n se S o m e p r e v i o u s s t u d ie s r e v e a le d l in k a g e

b e t w e e n these ra re a l le l e s a n d p r o p e n s i t y t o w a r d s d r u g d c p c n d e n c e T h i s p a p e r r e p o rts the data o f

an i n v e s t ig a t i o n o n f r e q u c n c i c s o f s e v e ra l S N P s at O P R M Ỉ a n d H R ỈỈ2 l o c i in a V i e t n a m e s e

population by using RFLP-PCR technique For O P R M l, the I V S 2 + 6 9 IG allele appeared wilh a

f r e q u e n c y o f 2 5 % T h e S N P ^ 5 4 3 G / A w e r e f o u n d at the H R ỈỈ2 lo c u s w i t h f r e q u e n c y o f 5 % 1 ’hese

frequencies seemed to concur with those found in previous studies in some other Asian populations, such as Japanese, Indian or Chinese but notably the frequencies o f these alleles found

in Vietnamese appeared to dii'fer significantly from those found in European and African-

A i i i c i i c a i i p u p u ì a ũ o n ^ dò i c v c a l c đ \t y p i c v i o u s i i i v c b l i i ; a U o n s

K eyw ords: mu-opioid receptor, histamine H2 rcccptor, sinule nucleotide p o l y m o r p h i s m (SNP), PCR-RFLP.

1 In tro d u ctio n distinct m echanism s, k n o w le d g e o f specific

gcnctic prcdictors o f response could make it Phaưnacogenetic ap proach es provide a possible for Ircatmcnl to be m atched lo patients method for id entifyin g m ech a n ism s un d erlyin g so as to optim ize thcrapcutic response and interindividual response variation and, in m in im ize ad v erse effccts

particular, identifying patients w h o have a C o m p o u n d s used to treat m an y d iseases

higher probability o f benefiting from a work by activating a rcccplor or inhibiting the

particular m edication [ 1 ] B e c a u s e m edications action i f it is natural ligand Variation in

appear to exert their th erapeutic c f f e c t s through rcccp tors a m o n g s t the p o p u la lio n IS k n o w n to

be caused b y allelic variation and this variation

'T’ 1 Í TOCC1-7ÍO can alter the response o f a disease to a drue

E-mail: longd d_ksh @ vnu.cd u.vn amongst patients.

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Ihe mu-opioid rcccptor is implicated in the

rew ard , tolerance and w ith d raw al e ffe cts o f

alco h o l and other drugs o f abuse T h u s, the

genetic loci that c o d e for these opioid receptors,

O P R M l , O P R D l , and O P R K l , r e s p c c liv e ly ,

arc potential targets for pharm acogen etic

studies o f naltrexone ( N T X ) treatment effects,

'['he m u-opjoid reccp lo r p la y s a ccntra! role in

m cd iatin c the c ffe c ts o f morphine and related

opioid agonists D cleciio n o f uenetic variation

affecting O PR M l expression or mu-opioid

rcccptor function w o u ld be an important step

to w ard s understanding the origins o f intcr-

individual variation in resp o n se to m u-opioid

receptor liuands and in d is e a se s o f substance

d ependence T h e O PR M I c cn e cn c o d es the mu-

o pioid receptor, O PR M Ỉ m ap s lo chrom o som e

6q24Hi25 [2].

Fo u r nuclcotide varian ts ( + 1 7 C / T ,

M 1 8 A / G + 4 4 0 C / G (relative to the A T G ) and

Ị V S 2 + 6 9 1 C / G ) w ere o b se rv ed [3] One o b vio u s

candidate variant for such an c ffec t is the

A 1 1 8 C Ì single nucleotid e p o ly m o rp h is m ( S N P )

m exo n 1 o f O P R M l T h is polym on'ihism

c n co d cs an A s n 4 0 A s p a m m o acid substiluiion

and IS reported to be iu n ctio n a lly important, but

w h ile there are several reports s h o w in g that this

variant ts functional, they are not e a s ily placcd

in a consistent fram e w o rk regard in g the nature

o f the functional e ffects [4] A d d itio n ally, the

C 1 7 T w hich e n co d cs a variant receptor with a

V al at position 40 instead o f A la , have been

found with varied frequen cies across

populations T h e s e fin d in g s d cm onslratcd that

the opioid system is in v o lv e d in the reinforcing

properties o f alcohol and that allclic variation at

O P R M l is associated with differential response

to m edications activc at the mu-rcceptor

rh crclb re, genctic variation at loci cod in g for

opiate system proteins, including O P R M 1

might be exp ected to affe c t risk for drug

d epen d ence and alco h o lism , and p o ss ib ly other addictive b eh av io rs as well

Histamine is natural constituent o f many

o rgan s and tissues including the gastrointestinal tract, the im m une syste m and the brain [5] It is

a central n eu rotransm itter in the brain and is

fo m ie d in the posterior hypothalam us from

cxogcneous histidine by histidine decarboxylasc (HDC) There are three known

histam ine rcccptors: H I , H2 and 1 1 3 , the latter functioning as an autoreceptor 'I'hc IỈ2 receptor

is a site o f action o f v ariou s com poun d s used m

the treatment o f psychiatric disorder, e.g

amitriptiline and mianserin Health et al (2002)

have reported the su cccssfu l response o f patients with chronic, predom inantly negative t>pe schizophrenia, to the h igh ly specific H2 reccptor antagonist fam otidine [6] ỈỈR II2 IS

g e n e e n c o d i n g the hum an h ista m in e H2

receptor The A649G SNP in this gene, leading

to am ino acid substitution o f an A sn at position

2 1 7 b y A s p w a s found to be associated with schizophrenia in B ritish C a u c a s ia n s [6]

In the present study, we applied PCR-RFLP

in investiíỉatiníỉ the frcqu cn cv o f such S N P s in

V ic ln a m e se subjects as our prelim inary

assessment [7] For O P R M I Ihc 118G allele

appeared w ith a r e la tiv e ly h ig h freq uency o f

38% Neither the 171' nor 649G allele 0ĨH R H 2

w ere found in the study, suggesting that these

variants, i f p resent, IS u n c o m m o n in the

V ietn am e se population In this publication, \vc extended our assessm en t by an alyzin g the

frcqucncics o f IVS2 +C691G locus in intron 2

o f O PR M I gene and G543A SNP in ỈỈRỈỈ2

gene in Vietnamese, using PCR-RFLP method

T h e s e results suíỉgest that natural variations that

m ight affect function and/or be associated with psychiatric phen otyp es related to therapeutic response in m edication

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2 M aterials a n d m eth od s

2.1 Malerials

The Vietnamese population sample is

composed o f 100 Vietnamese individuals and

were collected randomly from patients in the

Hanoi Huu Nghi Hospital and National Institute

o f Hematology and Blood Transfusion,

Vietnam Venous blood samples were collected

in vials containing EDTA and stored in -20‘’c

for a week to a month.

2 / M e íỉìo d s

extracted from blood samples by using standard

precipitation described by Sambrook eỉ a i

(2001) [8] with some minor modifications The

exưacted DNA products were analyzed on a

0.8% agarose gel and m easured at OD280 and

OD260- OD260/OD280 w a s calculated to id en tify

the extraction efficacy and intactness o f the

genomic DNA.

fragment 235bp was amplified by using the

primers designed incorporating mismatched

base (capitalized below) lo produce artificial

restriction sites (bold) in order to analyze SNP

IVS2+691C/G: forward primer: 5'-g e t ctg gtc

aag get aaG a a t- 3 ’ (where a G was substituted

for an A at position -4 to create a H injl site);

reverse primer: 5 ’ - g a t cat c a g tcc ata g c a cac

g g - 3 ’) PCR cycling parameters consist o f a

5min hold at 95^c, followed by 30 cycles o f

95"C (Imin), 6 r c (Im in) and 72"c (Im in)

Reaction mixture consists o f 0.4|iM each

primer (Bioneer), 0.2mM dNTP, lu Taq

polymerase/25|iL o f reaction and 4mM MgCK

Following amplification, the reaction mixture

was digested with Hinfl restriction

endonuclease (Fennentas) which

correspondingly cuts the 691C allele resulting

in 20bp and 215bp fragments Fragments were

resolv ed b y 3% a g a ro s e gel elecừ op horesis

For HRH2, the pnm crs included: forward

5 ’ -cca atg gca c a g cct c t t - 3 ’ and reversed 5 ' -

g c a g ca gaa g a g ctg l t g - 3 ’ w a s u s e d to a m p lify

a 909 bp fragment, optim ized conditions for this PCR reaction arc 0.4ụM o f each primers, 0.4mM dNTP, 1 u Taq polymerase/25 |iL reaction and 3mM MgCb- PCR cycling parameters consist o f a 5-min hold at

followed by 30 cycles o f 9 6 T (Imin), 5 7 T

(Im in) and IT 'C (Im in 20s) PCR products

w e r e s u b s e q u e n tly a d d e d to X m il restriction

endonuclease (Fermentas) which yield

fragments o f 536bp and 373bp upon X m il

digestion o f the variant PCR product containing allele (rare) 543A The common allele 543G

has no X m il restriction site Reaction products

were analyzed by electrophorcsis on the 1.5% agarose gel.

The y j test was applied for verifying the

allele frequency distribution o f the SNPs.

3 R esults a n d discussion

extracted from blood samples anticoagulatcd

w ilii e ith e r E D T A b y u^iiig th e m c l h o d a

described by Sambrook et al (2001) [8],

Fig 1 Elecưophoresis on 1% agarose gel o f genomic

D N A extracted from blood samples M: Marker X

///rtdlll; E l - E8: Genomic D N A products.

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In our study, the results sh o w ed that

gen o m ic D N A w a s extracted s u c c e s sfu lly with

this m ethod ( F i g l ) W hole gen o m ic D N A

appears as a sharp, bright band in a g aro se gel o f

electrophorcsis O ptical density a s s a y show ed

relativ e ly purified products o f O D260'280 values

ranging irom 1.6 to 2 and the concentration o f

D N A w e re 3 0 - 4 0 0 |ig /m L T h e D N A sam ples

subsequently w ere diluted to concentration o f

50 |.ig/mL for further P C R experim ents

optimizalion o f primer an nealing w a s

perform ed on purified D N A sam ples The

anncalinu temperature w a s identified as 61°c

for the best result, l-'or a m p lificaiio n o f 2 3 5 b p

fraumcnt to an alyze I V S 2 + 6 9 1 C / G S N P in

O PRM Ỉ uene, PC'Rs w e re operated and w e have

obtained specific D N A bands at the size o f

2 3 5 b p as exp ected accord ing to Its theoretical

calculation (p'lg 2)

235bp

Fig 2 Hlcclrophoresis o f PCR products O PR M Ỉ

gene on agarose 1.5%, 60V DC; neuative control;

lane 1-'^; PCR products; M: D N A marker Ikb.

F o r gcnot\piniĩ o f ỈỈRH 2, the am p lifv in g

also obtained the 909b p fragm ent (nucleotide

^^8 to nucleotide + 9 1 6 ) , w h ich appeared as one

sharp and specific band in the electrophoresis

These results w ere illustrated in F ig u re 3

9 0 9 b p

Fig 3 Electrophoresis o f PCR products HRH2 iiene

on agarose 1.5%, 60V DC; negative control; lane 1- 7: PCR products; M: D N A marker Ikb.

Genotyping an d data analysis The P C R

products frorri both o f O PR M I and IIR IỈ2 genes

w e re used for digestion reaction with H inf[ and A>/h7 respectively U p on I liỉìĩl digestion, in 100

sam ples m this study, frequen cy o f individuals with h o m o z y g o lic gen o typ e I V S 2 + 6 9 1 C / C w as

0 56 , heterozygotic gen o typ e + 6 9 1 C /G w as

0 3 7 and + 6 9 1 G / G w a s 0.07 T h e figure 4

b e lo w is illustration o f this result

235bp 215bp 20bp

Fiíị4 Digestion o f PCR product W S l-O P R M ! gene with Ỉiiỉiữ for analysis o f IVS2 ^691C/G SNP M;

marker Ikb; Lane 1, 6 and 7: homozygote CC; lane

3 and 4: GG; lane 2 and 5: heterozygote C/G.

From that, w e calculatcd allele frequencies

o f ^ 6 9 1 C and ^ 6 9 I G as 0 7 5 and 0.25

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respectively T h ese results con firm ed b y x~

(x'( 2 ) “ 0.098 lo w er than the X' value o f

statistical significant at p = 0 0 5 w hich is 5.99),

sh o w in g that the frequen cies o f these a lle le s

reached to balanced state and there w e re no

deviations from H a rd y -W e in b c rg exp ectatio n s

in the population T h e c o m p ariso n s o f + 6 9 I G

allele frequencies betw een V ietn am e se and

other population indicated that, ihc frequen cy o f

this rare allele V ietn am e se is o f av e rage to other

A sia n populations and re la tiv e ly lo w c om pared

to other populations w o rld -w id e

G en otyp in g o f H RH 2 gene for a n aly sis o f

allele frequencies o f + 5 4 3 G / A S N P w a s

perform ed b y digestion reaction o f Xmi\

B e c a u se o f the com m on allele + 5 4 3 G without

restnction site and the rare (mutated) alle le

+ 5 4 3 A with one restriction site o f this en z y m e

and result in two bands 5 3 6 and 3 7 3 bp, w e can

identify the gen otype o f ind ividu als in study

xh'

9 ũ y b ị j

-

536bp3 7 536bp3 b p

-tcst ( x ‘ (2) = 0 2 7 7 , lo w e r than the X ' value o f statistical sig n ific an t at p = 0 0 5 w h ic h IS 5.99)

T h is result also indicated that there were no

d eviation s from H a r d y -W c in b e rg expectations for distribution o f alleles + 5 4 3 G / A in this

V ietn am ese population

4 C onclusion

T h e a sse ssm e n t o f the frequen cies o f single nucleotide p o ly m o r p h ism s in O PR M Ì gene

( 1 V S 2 + 6 9 1 C / G ) and gen e c o d in g histamine Ỉ12 receptor ỈỈR H 2 ( + 5 4 3 G / A ) with 10 0

V ietn am ese in d iv id u als sh o w ed that, both o f these S N P S w e r e found in our subjects with identified frequ en cies T h e + 6 9 I G variant in the

O PR M I gene w a s at the fre q u en cy o f 0 2 5 and

+ 5 4 3 A variant o f H R ỈỈ2 w a s 0 0 5 In the

an alyzed loci, the frequen cies o f genot>T^cs are

fo llo w ed H ard y - W e in b e r g exp e clatio n T h is

m eans that, the genetic c o m p o sitio n s o f these alleles are quite balanced , at least m our 10 0 individuals o f this study

T h e c o m p a ris o n s o f the frequencies o f

c om m on S N P s in O PRA ÍỈ and ỈỈR II2 gen es in

V ic ln a in c s c a p p e a r e d lu b e s iM iiia i lo litu s c

p re v io u s ly found in A sia n s, e.g Ja p an ese, Indian, C h in e s e etc but sig n ific a n tly differed from those o f E u ro p ea n s and A frican -

A m e ric a n s, like our ju dgưient in previous publication [7]

Fig 5 Digestion o f PCR product HRH2 gene with

Aw/1 for analysis o f +543G /A SNP M: D N A marker

Ikb; Lane land 3: heterozygote G/A; lane 2, 4 - 8:

homozygote GG.

A m o n g st o f 1 0 0 sam ples, 9 0 % are G G

ho m o zygo us, 1 0 % are G A h eterozygous and

there is no A A h o m o z y g o te in our study T h e

frequencies o f these allele s are 0.95 (G ) and

0.05 (A ) T h ese frequencies w e re tested u s i n g x “

A ckn ow ledg em ents

The authors w ould like to express sincere thanks to the Vietnam National University-Hanoi for funding the project (Research Grant No QG.08.09) We are also grateful to A sso c Prof Trinli Dinh Dat from Faculty o f B io lo g y , Hanoi University o f Science, for his continuing expertise support and proof-reading the manuscript

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Đánh giá đa hình đơn nucleotit trong gen O P R M l và H R H 2 ở

người Việt Nam sử dụng RFLP-PCR

Đinh Đoàn Long, Nguyễn Thi Hồng Vân, Nguyễn Anh Lương, Trần Thị Thùy Anh

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Gen mã hóa thụ thể mu-opioid {O PR M I) được cho là có liên quan tới sự phụ thuộc thuốc và các chất gây nghiện HRH2 là gen mã hóa thụ thể histamine H2, vị trí hoạt động cùa nhiều hợp chất được

sử dụng trong điều trị các bệnh liên quan đến tâm thần (amitriptiline và mianserin) Cả hai gen này đều

chứa những vị trí đa hình đơn nucleotit - SNP (chẳng hạn, + 1 18A/G ở gen O P R M l, +398T/C ở gen

Ỉ-ĨRỈĨ2 ) dẫn đến những thay đồi về trinh tự axit amin của protein và từ đỏ làm ành hường tới đáp

ứiig thuốc trong điều trị Nhiều nghiên cứu trước đây đã đưa ra mối liên kết giữa các alen hiếm này và

xu hướng phụ thuộc thuốc Trong nghiên cứu này, chúng tôi khảo sát các SNP IVS2+691C/G và

+543G/A ờ hai gen O P R M I và H RH 2 trong nhóm 100 cá thể người Việt Nam được thu thập ngẫu

nhiên từ Bệnh viện Hữu Nghị, Hà Nội và Viện Huyết học và Truyền máu Trung ương, Việt Nam,

bằng kỹ thuật RFLP-PCR Kết quà cho thấy, với gen O P R M Ỉ, alen IVS2+691G xuất hiện với tần số

25% Alen +543A ờ HRH2 được tìm thấy với tần số 5% Các tần số này khá gần với tần số các alen tương ứng trong các quần thể người ở Châu Á, như N hật Bàn, Ấn Độ, Trung Q uốc nhưng khác biệt

so với tần số của các alen này ở người Châu Âu và người Mỹ gốc Phi.