Incidental Mutation 'R2483:Dffb'
ID 250639
Institutional Source Beutler Lab
Gene Symbol Dffb
Ensembl Gene ENSMUSG00000029027
Gene Name DNA fragmentation factor, beta subunit
Synonyms Didff, caspase-activated DNase, CAD, 5730477D02Rik, CPAN, 40kDa, DFF40
MMRRC Submission 040407-MU
Accession Numbers
Essential gene? Non essential (E-score: 0.000) question?
Stock # R2483 (G1)
Quality Score 225
Status Not validated
Chromosome 4
Chromosomal Location 154048904-154059578 bp(-) (GRCm39)
Type of Mutation missense
DNA Base Change (assembly) T to C at 154049976 bp (GRCm39)
Zygosity Heterozygous
Amino Acid Change Threonine to Alanine at position 296 (T296A)
Ref Sequence ENSEMBL: ENSMUSP00000030893 (fasta)
Gene Model predicted gene model for transcript(s): [ENSMUST00000030893] [ENSMUST00000058393] [ENSMUST00000105645] [ENSMUST00000133607] [ENSMUST00000141493] [ENSMUST00000147826]
AlphaFold O54788
PDB Structure NMR STRUCTURE OF THE CAD DOMAIN OF CASPASE-ACTIVATED DNASE [SOLUTION NMR]
NMR STRUCTURE OF THE HETERODIMERIC COMPLEX BETWEEN CAD DOMAINS OF CAD AND ICAD [SOLUTION NMR]
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF CASPASE-ACTIVATED DNASE (CAD) [X-RAY DIFFRACTION]
Predicted Effect probably damaging
Transcript: ENSMUST00000030893
AA Change: T296A

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.999 (Sensitivity: 0.14; Specificity: 0.99)
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000030893
Gene: ENSMUSG00000029027
AA Change: T296A

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
CAD 9 81 2.48e-41 SMART
Pfam:DFF40 103 324 9.4e-97 PFAM
low complexity region 330 344 N/A INTRINSIC
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000058393
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000054638
Gene: ENSMUSG00000047613

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
Pfam:UPF0688 6 228 9.9e-99 PFAM
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000105645
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000128457
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000133524
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000133607
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000141493
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000147826
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000219093
Meta Mutation Damage Score 0.7634 question?
Coding Region Coverage
  • 1x: 99.2%
  • 3x: 98.6%
  • 10x: 97.5%
  • 20x: 95.6%
Validation Efficiency
MGI Phenotype FUNCTION: [Summary is not available for the mouse gene. This summary is for the human ortholog.] Apoptosis is a cell death process that removes toxic and/or useless cells during mammalian development. The apoptotic process is accompanied by shrinkage and fragmentation of the cells and nuclei and degradation of the chromosomal DNA into nucleosomal units. DNA fragmentation factor (DFF) is a heterodimeric protein of 40-kD (DFFB) and 45-kD (DFFA) subunits. DFFA is the substrate for caspase-3 and triggers DNA fragmentation during apoptosis. DFF becomes activated when DFFA is cleaved by caspase-3. The cleaved fragments of DFFA dissociate from DFFB, the active component of DFF. DFFB has been found to trigger both DNA fragmentation and chromatin condensation during apoptosis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene but the biological validity of some of these variants has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2013]
PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a knock-out allele are viable, fertile and developmentally normal; however, mutant thymocytes and other cell types fail to undergo apoptotic DNA fragmentation in response to dexamethasone or other apoptotic stimuli. [provided by MGI curators]
Allele List at MGI
Other mutations in this stock
Total: 81 list
GeneRefVarChr/LocMutationPredicted EffectZygosity
Adcy1 A G 11: 7,080,348 (GRCm39) T364A probably benign Het
Adpgk G A 9: 59,221,036 (GRCm39) V281I probably benign Het
Akap9 C A 5: 4,026,235 (GRCm39) Q1297K possibly damaging Het
Ankrd13d T C 19: 4,331,968 (GRCm39) E110G probably damaging Het
Ankrd53 A G 6: 83,740,244 (GRCm39) E104G possibly damaging Het
Ano6 A T 15: 95,863,855 (GRCm39) T792S probably benign Het
Atm A T 9: 53,421,566 (GRCm39) V715D probably damaging Het
Avl9 A G 6: 56,713,828 (GRCm39) D362G probably benign Het
Bin1 T A 18: 32,547,280 (GRCm39) S152R probably damaging Het
Bscl2 T A 19: 8,818,514 (GRCm39) C40S probably benign Het
Btaf1 A G 19: 36,958,486 (GRCm39) T668A probably benign Het
Btrc A G 19: 45,504,497 (GRCm39) D397G probably damaging Het
Cables2 A T 2: 179,902,222 (GRCm39) V379E probably damaging Het
Cacna2d2 T C 9: 107,389,221 (GRCm39) L228P probably damaging Het
Cd109 A T 9: 78,574,639 (GRCm39) D541V probably damaging Het
Cdh26 A T 2: 178,108,382 (GRCm39) S327C probably damaging Het
Cep78 T C 19: 15,938,344 (GRCm39) K535E probably damaging Het
Ces1a A G 8: 93,753,969 (GRCm39) Y345H probably damaging Het
Col6a5 C A 9: 105,741,347 (GRCm39) R2524I probably damaging Het
Cracd A T 5: 77,004,256 (GRCm39) I206F probably damaging Het
Dctn1 G A 6: 83,171,169 (GRCm39) R661H probably damaging Het
Ddias T C 7: 92,508,800 (GRCm39) T372A probably benign Het
Dock8 A G 19: 25,057,241 (GRCm39) Q216R probably benign Het
Emx1 T C 6: 85,165,237 (GRCm39) S105P probably benign Het
Ep400 T C 5: 110,867,102 (GRCm39) Y1014C unknown Het
Fam193a A T 5: 34,623,102 (GRCm39) K1230M possibly damaging Het
Fgf9 A G 14: 58,347,028 (GRCm39) Q207R probably benign Het
Gm5460 G A 14: 33,767,775 (GRCm39) C461Y possibly damaging Het
Gpc1 T C 1: 92,783,660 (GRCm39) I249T probably benign Het
Htr1d T C 4: 136,170,815 (GRCm39) I348T probably damaging Het
Hyal4 A T 6: 24,765,737 (GRCm39) S364C probably damaging Het
Igfn1 T C 1: 135,897,275 (GRCm39) E1097G probably benign Het
Igkv1-133 A T 6: 67,701,944 (GRCm39) Q16L probably benign Het
Kcnh5 A T 12: 75,161,245 (GRCm39) I221N probably damaging Het
Kmt2a A G 9: 44,760,263 (GRCm39) Y529H probably damaging Het
Kyat1 T C 2: 30,076,710 (GRCm39) H218R possibly damaging Het
Lamb2 T G 9: 108,357,758 (GRCm39) C94G probably damaging Het
Met A T 6: 17,549,085 (GRCm39) D979V probably damaging Het
Midn A G 10: 79,986,144 (GRCm39) D78G probably benign Het
Myh1 A T 11: 67,102,052 (GRCm39) M811L probably benign Het
Myh7 T C 14: 55,210,838 (GRCm39) E1693G probably damaging Het
Myo15b A G 11: 115,755,565 (GRCm39) T979A probably benign Het
Myo18b A T 5: 113,006,274 (GRCm39) C879S probably damaging Het
Myom1 A G 17: 71,384,807 (GRCm39) T733A probably damaging Het
Ndufa9 A T 6: 126,821,362 (GRCm39) M76K possibly damaging Het
Nectin3 A G 16: 46,215,542 (GRCm39) C74R possibly damaging Het
Obscn A G 11: 58,970,972 (GRCm39) F2514L probably damaging Het
Or4a69 G A 2: 89,313,471 (GRCm39) Q3* probably null Het
Or52d3 T C 7: 104,229,149 (GRCm39) S99P probably damaging Het
Or5p81 CAAATA CA 7: 108,266,869 (GRCm39) probably null Het
P2ry2 A T 7: 100,647,706 (GRCm39) S200T probably benign Het
Pcdha5 G T 18: 37,094,542 (GRCm39) M350I probably benign Het
Pcdha5 G A 18: 37,094,834 (GRCm39) V448M probably damaging Het
Pex12 C T 11: 83,188,455 (GRCm39) R180H possibly damaging Het
Pip4p1 C G 14: 51,167,749 (GRCm39) V59L probably damaging Het
Pkd1l1 A T 11: 8,912,701 (GRCm39) V168E probably damaging Het
Prokr2 T A 2: 132,223,095 (GRCm39) D149V probably damaging Het
Rnf123 A G 9: 107,940,720 (GRCm39) V707A probably benign Het
Ryr2 T C 13: 11,774,589 (GRCm39) E1189G probably damaging Het
Scarf1 T C 11: 75,406,117 (GRCm39) F134L probably damaging Het
Sfxn5 A G 6: 85,309,260 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Shfl A T 9: 20,784,473 (GRCm39) I186F possibly damaging Het
Skic3 A G 13: 76,330,986 (GRCm39) E1472G probably damaging Het
Slc17a5 A T 9: 78,445,556 (GRCm39) V433D probably damaging Het
Snapc1 A G 12: 74,011,417 (GRCm39) T28A probably benign Het
Soat1 T C 1: 156,258,669 (GRCm39) Y528C probably damaging Het
Spem1 G A 11: 69,712,344 (GRCm39) R107C possibly damaging Het
Srcap T C 7: 127,141,319 (GRCm39) S1639P probably damaging Het
Sycp2 A T 2: 178,016,388 (GRCm39) N691K probably damaging Het
Syne2 A T 12: 76,142,311 (GRCm39) I6183F probably damaging Het
Tas2r110 A T 6: 132,845,433 (GRCm39) M155L probably benign Het
Tenm3 G A 8: 48,693,305 (GRCm39) T1859I probably damaging Het
Thsd7b T A 1: 130,030,809 (GRCm39) V1048D probably damaging Het
Vav3 T C 3: 109,248,482 (GRCm39) L43P probably damaging Het
Vmn1r30 A T 6: 58,412,437 (GRCm39) F132I probably benign Het
Vmn2r24 A G 6: 123,792,997 (GRCm39) R775G probably damaging Het
Vps13c T A 9: 67,883,189 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Vps37c T A 19: 10,683,569 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Wwp2 A G 8: 108,275,167 (GRCm39) D388G probably damaging Het
Xirp2 A T 2: 67,355,336 (GRCm39) T3366S probably benign Het
Zbtb49 A C 5: 38,360,701 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Other mutations in Dffb
AlleleSourceChrCoordTypePredicted EffectPPH Score
IGL02502:Dffb APN 4 154,050,073 (GRCm39) unclassified probably benign
R0243:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,835 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R0244:Dffb UTSW 4 154,059,072 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.33
R3622:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,976 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R3623:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,976 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R3624:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,976 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4562:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,913 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4912:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,864 (GRCm39) unclassified probably benign
R5015:Dffb UTSW 4 154,057,416 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.84
R5986:Dffb UTSW 4 154,050,050 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R6950:Dffb UTSW 4 154,054,549 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R7395:Dffb UTSW 4 154,053,570 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R7986:Dffb UTSW 4 154,054,504 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.99
R8731:Dffb UTSW 4 154,059,101 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.93
R8910:Dffb UTSW 4 154,057,416 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.84
R9709:Dffb UTSW 4 154,059,121 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
Z1176:Dffb UTSW 4 154,057,300 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
Predicted Primers PCR Primer
(F):5'- TGCCACAGGAACACGATGAG -3'
(R):5'- GGTAGACACTGCATCCACAGAC -3'

Sequencing Primer
(F):5'- ATGAGCACCGGCACTGAC -3'
(R):5'- TGCATCCACAGACAGCGAGTG -3'
Posted On 2014-12-04