ClinVar

Description

The c.898G>T (p.A300S) alteration is located in coding exon 8 of the PAH gene. This alteration results from a G to T substitution at nucleotide position 898, causing the alanine (A) at amino acid position 300 to be replaced by a serine (S). Based on data from gnomAD, the T allele has an overall frequency of 0.05% (152/282410) total alleles studied. The highest observed frequency was 0.69% (71/10350) of Ashkenazi Jewish alleles. This alteration has been reported in individuals both homozygous and compound heterozygous with a second disease-causing allele and is typically associated with mild PKU or hyperphenylalaninemia (Bercovich, 2008; Dobrowolski, 2011; Couce, 2013; Réblová, 2013; Trunzo, 2013; Danecka, 2015; Jeannesson-Thivisol, 2015). Multiple studies have found that patients with this alteration are BH4-responsive (Zurflüh, 2008; Jeannesson-Thivisol, 2015; Shen, 2016). This amino acid position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. The p.A300 amino acid is located in the catalytic domain of the protein. The serine substitution is too large for the side chain and destabilization is due to the change of polarity of the catalytic domain's core (reviewed in Blau, 2004). Functional analysis demonstrated the p.A300S alteration reduces protein activity to approximately 30% of wild type activity (Zurflüh, 2008; Shen, 2016). When co-expressed with other disease-causing alleles, residual activity has been reported from 5.2-18% of normal (Danecka, 2015; Shen, 2016). It has been determined that this alteration actually leads to conformational destabilization of the protein and increased degradation while the enzyme function remains intact (Gersting, 2008). This alteration is predicted to be deleterious by in silico analysis. Based on the available evidence, this alteration is classified as pathogenic.