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Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 2000, p. 878-882, Vol. 20, No. 3
0270-7306/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Targeted Deletion of the tub Mouse Obesity Gene Reveals that tubby Is a Loss-of-Function Mutation

Hilde Stubdal, Catherine A. Lynch, Ann Moriarty, Qing Fang, Troy Chickering, James D. Deeds, Victoria Fairchild-Huntress, Olga Charlat, Judy H. Dunmore, Patrick Kleyn, Dennis Huszar, and Rosana Kapeller*

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 1 November 1999/Accepted 4 November 1999

The mouse tubby phenotype is characterized by maturity-onset obesity accompanied by retinal and cochlear degeneration. A positional cloning effort to find the gene responsible for this phenotype led to the identification of tub, a member of a novel gene family of unknown function. A splice defect mutation in the 3' end of the tub gene, predicted to disrupt the C terminus of the Tub protein, has been implicated in the genesis of the tubby phenotype. It is not clear, however, whether the Tub mutant protein retains any biological activity, or perhaps has some dominant function, nor is it established that the tubby mutation is itself responsible for all of the observed tubby phenotypes. To address these questions, we generated tub-deficient mice and compared their phenotype to that of tubby mice. Our results demonstrate that tubby is a loss-of-function mutation of the tub gene and that loss of the tub gene is sufficient to give rise to the full spectrum of tubby phenotypes. We also demonstrate that loss of photoreceptors in the retina of tubby and tub-deficient mice occurs by apoptosis. In addition, we show that Tub protein expression is not significantly altered in the ob, db, or melanocortin 4 receptor-deficient mouse model of obesity.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 75 Sidney St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Phone: (617) 679-7176. Fax: (617) 374-9379. E-mail: kapeller{at}mpi.com.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 2000, p. 878-882, Vol. 20, No. 3
0270-7306/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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