Abstract
Hemophilia B is a classical monogenic, X-chromosomal, recessively transmitted bleeding disorder caused by genetic variants within the coagulation factor IX gene (F9). Although hemophilia B has been described in dogs, it has not yet been reported in the Hovawart breed. Here we describe the identification of a Hovawart family transmitting typical signs of an X-linked bleeding disorder. Five males were reported to suffer from recurrent hemorrhagic episodes. A blood sample from one of these males with only 2% of the normal concentration of plasma factor IX together with samples from seven relatives were provided. Next-generation sequencing of the mother and grandmother revealed a single nucleotide deletion in the F9 promoter. Genotyping of the deletion in 1,298 dog specimens including 720 Hovawarts revealed that the mutant allele was only present in the aforementioned Hovawart family. The deletion is located 73 bp upstream of the F9 start codon in the conserved overlapping DNA binding sites of hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (HNF-4α) and androgen receptor (AR). The deletion only abolished binding of HNF-4α, while AR binding was unaffected as demonstrated by electrophoretic mobility shift assay using human HNF-4α and AR with double-stranded DNA probes encompassing the mutant promoter region. Luciferase reporter assays using wildtype and mutated promoter fragment constructs transfected into Hep G2 cells showed a significant reduction in expression from the mutant promoter. The data provide evidence that the deletion in the Hovawart family caused a rare type of hemophilia B resembling human hemophilia B Leyden.Introduction
Hemophilia B (Christmas disease) is a recessive, X-linked bleeding disorder caused by genetic variants within the clotting factor IX gene (F9) resulting in the absence or insufficient levels of factor IX (FIX) in the blood.1 In humans hemophilia B is also known as the “royal disease” as it was transmitted into several European royal dynasties by Queen Victoria.32 As of present, 1,113 unique F9 variants have been described in humans.4 The majority of the pathogenic variants are located within exons (n=923) and intronic regions (n=137) of F9. Only 33 variants (2.96%) have been described in the 5′-UTR (n=28) and 3′-UTR (n=5) accounting for 2.52% and 0.45% of human pathogenic hemophilia B variants, respectively.4
Although the first reports about canine hemophilia B date back to the early 1960s and this was the first disorder in dogs characterized on the DNA level, data on hemophilia B cases in dogs remain rather scarce compared to data from humans.85 For instance, in the Cairn Terrier colony of the Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) a G>A transition (NC_006621.3:g.109,532,018G>A) in exon 8 causing an amino acid exchange (NP_001003323.1:p.Gly418Glu) that resulted in a complete lack of circulating FIX was detected in affected dogs.9 Due to a complete deletion of F9 in a Labrador Retriever, FIX inhibitors were produced after transfusion of canine blood products.10 In a study of Pit Bull Terrier mixed breed dogs and Airedale Terrier dogs a large deletion of the entire 5′ region of F9 extending to exon 6 was found in the former and a 5 kb insertion disrupting exon 8 was described in the latter.11 As in the Labrador Retriever with hemophilia B, FIX inhibitors were produced in both breeds. A mild form of hemophilia B in German Wirehaired Pointers was caused by a 1.5 kb Line-1 insertion in intron 5 of F9 at position NC_006621.3:g.109,521,130.12 Until today, hemophilia B has been described in four mixed-breed dogs and nine dog breeds, i.e. German Shepherd, Lhasa Apso, Labrador Retriever, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Airedale Terrier, Cairn Terrier, Maltese, Mongrel and German Wirehaired Pointer.179
In the canine cases analyzed so far on the DNA level, mutations have been observed only in exons and introns of F9, whereas alterations of the F9 promoter have not yet been reported. In humans promoter variants have been detected and result in the so-called hemophilia B Leyden characterized by low levels of FIX until puberty, whereas after puberty FIX concentrations rise to almost normal levels.2018 Since its first description, the genetic background of human hemophilia B Leyden was elucidated by various studies identifying variants in different transcription factor binding sites in the F9 promoter including the androgen-responsive element (ARE), hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (HNF4α), one cut homeobox (ONECUT1/2) and CCAAT/enhancing-binding protein α (C/EBPα) binding sites.2221 HNF4α is a liver-enriched member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors and has been associated with several disorders, including diabetes, atherosclerosis, hepatitis, cancer, and hemophilia.23 Promoter analyses have identified at least 140 genes with HNF4α binding sites. A recent, more detailed analysis using protein binding microarrays identified an additional 1,400 potential binding sites.2524 Hence, HNF4α plays an important role in the regulation of numerous genes especially in the maintenance of many liver-specific functions. Liver-specific HNF4α-null mice have been used to study the involvement of hepatic HNF4α in blood coagulation. In the murine model it was shown that expression of factors V, XI, XII, and XIIIB depends directly on hepatic HNF4α and FIX expression was decreased with significantly prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT).26 Ten of the so far identified 28 5′-UTR variants (35.7%) are located within the overlapping binding sites of the androgen receptor (AR) and HNF4α in the human F9 promoter.214 Four variants at positions −21, −20 and −19 only affect HNF4α binding and all of them have been shown to cause hemophilia B Leyden.302719 The remaining six variants at positions −26, −24 and −23, located in the overlapping region, cause the so-called hemophilia B Brandenburg.3231 Unlike the classical hemophilia B Leyden, FIX levels in patients with these variants cannot be restored by testosterone-driven AR activity and remain low after puberty with no clinical recovery.3221
Methods
Animals and genomic DNA isolation
Canine blood and/or hair samples were collected by local veterinarians. The collection of samples was approved by the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (33.19-42502-05-15A506) according to §8a Abs. 1 Nr. 2 of the German Animal Protection Law (TierSchG). Blood collected into EDTA and/or hair samples were provided by different Hovawart and dog breeders with written consent from the dogs’ owners. DNA was extracted from 30-50 hair roots using the QIAamp DNA Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer‘s instructions.33 A salting out procedure was used to obtain DNA from the EDTA blood samples.34 Additional DNA samples deposited with the Institute of Veterinary Medicine were used as controls. All samples were pseudonymized using internal identities.
Next-generation sequencing and genotyping
DNA from animals #4 and #6 was used for next-generation sequencing on an Illumina HiSeq2500. The quality of the fastq-files was analyzed using FastQC 0.11.7.35 Total reads of 1,029,601,630 (#4; sequencing depth 51x) and 1,000,503,256 (#6; sequencing depth 50x) were obtained and mapped to the reference canine F9 gene (NC_006621.3, region 109,501,341 to 109,533,798; CanFam3.1) using DNASTAR Lasergene Genomics Suite SeqMan NGen 15.2.0 (130).4036
Targeted genotyping of the promoter deletion was done by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification with primers cfa_F9_Ex1_F (5′-CCACTGAGGGAGATGGACAC-3′) and cfa_F9_Ex1_R (5′-CCCACATGCTGACGACTAGA-3′) resulting in a fragment of 328 bp (wildtype) or 327 bp (deletion) spanning the variant position. The resulting PCR products were either directly sequenced on an ABI 3730 Genetic Analyzer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Basel, Switzerland) or genotypes were determined by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis after cleavage with RsaI. The wildtype allele generated two fragments of 52 bp and 276 bp while the allele with the deletion remained uncut.
Electrophoretic mobility shift assay
For the electrophoretic mobility shift assay, biotin-labeled, double-stranded wildtype (cfa_F9n_wt_Biotin: 5′-CAGAAGTAAAT-ACAGCTCAACTTGTACTTTGGAACAACTGGTCAACC-3′) and mutated (cfa_F9n_mut_Biotin: 5′-CCAGAAGTAAAT-ACAGCTCAACTTGTATTTGGAACAACTGGTCAACC-3′) oligonucleotides were synthesized (Integrated DNA Technologies IDT, Leuven, Belgium) harboring the overlapping HNF4α and AR binding sites (underlined). The position of the deleted C-nucleotide is indicated in bold and italics. Recombinant human HNF4α and human AR overexpression lysate were purchased from Origene Technologies Inc. (Rockville, MD, USA).
DNA was detected using the Chemiluminescent Nucleic Acid Detection Module Kit (Thermo Scientific, USA) with minor modifications, i.e. membranes were incubated for 1 min in the substrate working solution.
Luciferase assay
pGL3 Luciferase Reporter Vectors (pGL3-Basic, pGL3-Control) were used for the luciferase assay (Promega, Mannheim, Germany). The wildtype F9 promoter fragment (971 bp wildtype) was generated by PCR using primers cfa9_HindIII_F_neu (5′-CGTAGACTTAGCACTGTTCAAAGCTTCACACA-CACAGTTCTTAAAT-3′) and cfa9_HindIII_R_neu (5′-ATGGC-TAGCAACCGTCTAAGAAGCTTAATTGTGCAAGGAG-CAAGG-3′). The mutated F9 promoter fragment (970 bp) was generated by PCR using primers cfa9_HindIII_F (5′-ATCGT-CAAGCTTCACACACACAGTTCTTAAAT-3′) and cfa9_HindIII_R (5′-CGTACGAAGCTTAATTGTGCAAGGAG-CAAGG-3′). For cloning into the HindIII restriction site of pGL3, primers were designed with an unspecific random 5′-tag (italics) followed by a HindIII restriction site (underlined) (Online Supplementary Figure S1). DNA from female carrier #6 served as a template for amplification. Low expression levels of C/EBP in Hep G2 cells were complemented by co-transfection of a C/EBPα expression vector.22 Data are presented as relative response ratios.41 A Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine statistical significance. Values were considered statistically significant when P<0.05 (weakly significant), P<0.01 (medium-strength significance) and P<0.001 (strongly significant).
Other methods
Further details of the study methods are given in the Online Supplementary Appendix.
Results
Hemophilias are rare diseases in dogs and hence it was rather coincidental that a case in a Hovawart (#3, Figure 1) was reported to us. With the reconstruction of the pedigree using the online dog breed database and pedigree data of individual dogs provided by the owners it was possible to trace the disease back to the female carrier #39 (Figure 1, Online Supplementary Figure S2).42 In the studied family the hemophilia was transmitted to animals #19, #4 and #6. Bitch #19 had one litter with three hemophilic males (#48, #51, #53). Bitches #4 and #6 had litters with one affected male each, #60 and #3, respectively. Although DNA samples from animals #48, #51, #53 and #60 were not available, blood parameters and medical reports about recurrent hemorrhagic episodes were provided (Online Supplementary Table S1). These males had increased aPTT ratios of 2.93 (#53) to 4.76 (#51) indicative of defects in the intrinsic coagulation pathway and also reduced FIX concentrations in the blood as is normally the case in hemophilia B. The affected dog #3 presented only 2% of the standard FIX concentration. The female carriers #4 and #6 showed aPTT ratios within the reference range. FIX concentrations, however, were slightly below the reference range (#6). This was not surprising as it has been shown that minute reductions in FIX concentrations might not always be reflected in an aPTT increase because of the sensitivity of commercial reagents.43 The clinical signs together with the blood coagulation parameters and X-linked transmission supported the diagnosis of hemophilia B. The definite clinical diagnosis prompted us to search for the molecular cause initially on the DNA level. The canine F9 gene is located on chromosome X (CFAX) between positions 109,501,341 (transcription start site) and 109,533,798 and has a length of 32,458 bp (NC_006621.3, CanFam3.1). The canine F9 gene, similarly to that of other mammals, has eight exons with an open reading frame of 1,356 bp coding for 452 amino acids.44 DNA of female carriers #4 and #6 was subjected to whole genome sequencing and aligned to the canine reference F9 gene sequence. Surprisingly, only six sequence variants outside the coding regions of F9 were identified (Table 1). Five variants were located in introns and were excluded as the cause of the hemophilia B in the Hovawarts because these variants were also detected in unaffected controls. The remaining variant (deletion) was located in the promoter of F9 73 bp upstream of the start codon (Online Supplementary Figures S1 and S3). As this deletion was located within a putative transcription factor binding site of HNF4α and AR, which had been shown in humans to be important for F9 expression and mutated in hemophilia B Leyden and Brandenburg,3231 this position was analyzed in more detail.
Figure 1 shows the segregation of the nucleotide deletion in the affected Hovawart family. The female carriers #4 and #6 were heterozygous, as evidenced by the overlapping peaks with similar heights 5′ of the deletion position. The affected male #3 was hemizygous for the deleted allele whereas his sister #5 and cousin #7 were homozygous wildtype. Genotyping of 1,298 dogs (including 83 different breeds, 720 unrelated Hovawarts, and 12 Hovawart family members) demonstrated the occurrence of the deletion only among members of the affected Hovawart family (Table 2, Online Supplementary Table S2). To provide proof that the deletion represented the causative genetic variant and resulted in the low expression of F9, functional analyses using electrophoretic mobility shift and luciferase reporter assays were performed.
As shown in Figure 2, no binding of recombinant HNF4α to the mutated promoter region was detected. On the other hand, the AR lysate clearly showed binding to both fragments and hence the deletion seems not to influence AR binding to the androgen-responsive element in the canine F9 promoter. To analyze the effect of the promoter variant on F9 expression, wildtype and mutated promoter fragment luciferase constructs were transfected into Hep G2 cells. As shown in Figure 3 the mutated promoter fragment resulted in a statistically highly significant (P=2.2×10) reduction of the relative response ratio to approximately 34.6% of the wildtype promoter in the presence of C/EBP (+ C/EBP). C/EBP is clearly also an important transcription factor in the regulation of the canine F9 promoter as shown when C/EBP was not co-transfected (− C/EBP). In the absence of C/EBP the relative response ratio of the wildtype promoter was 29.8%. On the other hand there were no significant differences between the mutated promoter fragment (+/− C/EBP) and the wildtype promoter fragment (− C/EBP). As for variants of the HNF4α site, disruption of the C/EBP binding site has also been shown to be causative for hemophilia B in humans.4645
Discussion
As in humans, hemophilia A and B are also rare diseases in dogs caused by sequence variants in the coagulation factor VIII (F8) and IX (F9) gene, respectively.47 Since the 1960s cases of canine hemophilia B have been reported and in 1989 the first description of the molecular cause in a Cairn Terrier population at the Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory was published.44985
Since then only six further types of variants, all of them affecting the coding region of the F9 gene, i.e. deletions, insertions, missense variants, have been described as causative for canine hemophilia B.16151210 The identification of a causative promoter variant in the Hovawart dogs described here is therefore unique in two respects: it is the first regulatory variant described in dogs and secondly this variant resembles a specific subtype of hemophilia B, known as hemophilia B Leyden, in humans.21 Hitherto, 21 distinct variants in the human F9 promoter have been determined in families affected by hemophilia B Leyden.48 These variants cluster in the so-called Leyden-specific region (LSR) and interfere with the binding of different transcription factors, e.g. AR, HNF4α, ONECUT, and C/EBPα.49 The deletion identified in the Hovawart dogs was located 73 bp upstream of the start codon of the canine F9 gene corresponding to position −23 in the third human promoter cluster harboring the overlapping binding sites of AR and HNF4α.48 Similar to analyses in humans, it was possible to show by electrophoretic mobility shift assay that the deletion in the canine promoter abolished HNF4α binding because it affects the highly conserved core sequence of the HNF4α binding motif.24 On the other hand, binding of AR was not affected. This might be due to the fact that AR DNA-binding sites display an exceptional amount of sequence variation.50 Although the C-deletion is located in the consensus TGTNCT-motif of class I AR-binding sites several alternative motives, e.g. TGTTTC in the stomatin-like protein 3 gene or TGTATC in the prostate-specific antigen gene enhancer III region, have been reported.5250 Therefore, it can be assumed that the affected males would have recovered from hemophilia during puberty. To what extent a sex- or possibly also age-dependent amelioration of the hemophilia B Leyden, as described in humans and also a mouse model, might be present in the affected Hovawarts remains to be determined.5349 In this respect the Hovawart family could also be of interest as a model in the comparative analysis of age-dependent normalization of F9 expression in symptomatic carriers of hemophilia B Leyden in humans.
To analyze whether the deletion not only affected HNF4α binding but also resulted in a downregulation of F9 expression, we performed luciferase assays. Although relative response ratios do not directly reflect F9 mRNA or FIX levels in vivo, silencing of the promoter activity due to the deletion was obvious from these experiments. Similar findings have been made using HNF4α-null mice.26 In the murine model it was shown that expression of factors V, XI, XII, and XIIIB directly depends on hepatic HNF4α. Northern blot analysis also demonstrated that F9 expression was decreased with a significantly prolonged aPTT in the HNF4α-null mice.26 The finding that F9 expression was not completely dependent on HNF4α is in agreement with the observation that control of F9 transcription in mice and humans is complex and depends on a plethora of factors.26 For instance, in earlier studies it was shown, using DNaseI footprinting, that there are further binding sites of HNF4α and other factors, e.g. ARP1, COUP/Ear3, in the human F9 promoter influencing F9 expression.54 However, the classical HNF4α binding site at position −26 to −19 only binds HNF4α. When analyzing the canine F9 promoter using transcription factor binding site prediction algorithms, further potential binding motifs for HNF4α and other transcription factors were predicted (data not shown).5755 As ectopic expression of F9 in vivo can be excluded or at least ignored according to recent RNA-sequencing analyses,58 a remaining reduced hepatic activity of the mutated promoter is in agreement with the clinical findings of residual FIX activity in the affected males (Online Supplementary Table S1) and the results of the electrophoretic mobility shift assay showing binding of AR in androgen-dependent promoter activation.
In summary, we have identified and elucidated the causative genetic variant for hemophilia B Leyden in Hovawarts. This is the first report on a single nucleotide deletion within the binding sites of HNF4α and AR in the F9 promoter causing hemophilia B Leyden in dogs. As the deletion only abolishes the binding of HNF4α, it can be assumed that male dogs will most likely recover during puberty, as reported in humans.605930 However, to prevent any risk of a further propagation of the disorder, genotyping of females is recommended in further breeding.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to S. Pach for expert technical assistance and L. Binder for support. The owners of Hovawarts who have provided blood samples are thanked for their generous help. A. Leutz and E. Kowenz-Leutz are thanked for providing the C/EBPα expression vector. S. Shan and F. Xu are supported by a fellowship from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).
Footnotes
- ↵* BB and LS contributed equally to this work.
- Check the online version for the most updated information on this article, online supplements, and information on authorship & disclosures: www.haematologica.org/content/104/11/2307
- Received December 26, 2018.
- Accepted March 6, 2019.
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