Incidental Mutation 'R6950:Dffb'
ID 541204
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 045062-MU
Accession Numbers
Essential gene? Non essential (E-score: 0.000) question?
Stock # R6950 (G1)
Quality Score 225.009
Status Validated
Chromosome 4
Chromosomal Location 154048904-154059578 bp(-) (GRCm39)
Type of Mutation missense
DNA Base Change (assembly) A to T at 154054549 bp (GRCm39)
Zygosity Heterozygous
Amino Acid Change Methionine to Lysine at position 180 (M180K)
Ref Sequence ENSEMBL: ENSMUSP00000030893 (fasta)
Gene Model predicted gene model for transcript(s): [ENSMUST00000030893] [ENSMUST00000133607]
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 benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000030893
AA Change: M180K

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.000 (Sensitivity: 1.00; Specificity: 0.00)
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000030893
Gene: ENSMUSG00000029027
AA Change: M180K

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: ENSMUST00000133607
Coding Region Coverage
  • 1x: 100.0%
  • 3x: 99.9%
  • 10x: 99.4%
  • 20x: 98.4%
Validation Efficiency 98% (59/60)
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: 59 list
GeneRefVarChr/LocMutationPredicted EffectZygosity
Abcc1 T A 16: 14,229,480 (GRCm39) V404D probably damaging Het
Adcy2 A G 13: 69,036,184 (GRCm39) M159T possibly damaging Het
Agtpbp1 T C 13: 59,598,080 (GRCm39) K674R probably benign Het
Atxn7 C A 14: 14,095,511 (GRCm38) P403H probably damaging Het
Cav3 C T 6: 112,449,171 (GRCm39) T63I probably damaging Het
Ccr6 T C 17: 8,475,898 (GRCm39) *368Q probably null Het
Cdh8 A T 8: 99,757,395 (GRCm39) N734K probably benign Het
Ces5a G T 8: 94,257,402 (GRCm39) N134K probably benign Het
Cisd3 T G 11: 97,576,986 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Cyp4f39 T G 17: 32,711,280 (GRCm39) C476G probably damaging Het
Dock4 A G 12: 40,783,313 (GRCm39) E749G possibly damaging Het
Eogt A G 6: 97,111,343 (GRCm39) F173L possibly damaging Het
Ephb1 T A 9: 102,072,108 (GRCm39) T224S probably benign Het
Fam114a1 A T 5: 65,137,322 (GRCm39) E88D possibly damaging Het
Fbn2 A C 18: 58,168,993 (GRCm39) M2262R probably null Het
Fsip2 A G 2: 82,816,332 (GRCm39) I4022V probably benign Het
Gapvd1 A G 2: 34,574,257 (GRCm39) V1301A probably benign Het
Gch1 A T 14: 47,426,723 (GRCm39) M1K probably null Het
Hes1 T C 16: 29,886,089 (GRCm39) F231S probably damaging Het
Hoxb2 A G 11: 96,242,727 (GRCm39) T31A probably benign Het
Ifngr1 T A 10: 19,483,041 (GRCm39) V265D probably damaging Het
Ifnl3 A T 7: 28,222,432 (GRCm39) I58F probably benign Het
Igf2r T C 17: 12,937,605 (GRCm39) T561A probably benign Het
Igfbpl1 T A 4: 45,815,494 (GRCm39) H214L probably damaging Het
Irf8 A G 8: 121,481,864 (GRCm39) T318A probably benign Het
Kmt2d T C 15: 98,737,901 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Lratd2 T C 15: 60,695,563 (GRCm39) D61G probably benign Het
Lrrc36 G T 8: 106,152,021 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Msl2 C T 9: 100,979,174 (GRCm39) P516L possibly damaging Het
Naaladl1 A T 19: 6,156,011 (GRCm39) I62F probably damaging Het
Neto2 G T 8: 86,397,072 (GRCm39) P60Q probably damaging Het
Nipsnap3b A T 4: 53,015,136 (GRCm39) H61L possibly damaging Het
Npb T C 11: 120,499,473 (GRCm39) F47L probably benign Het
Nutm1 T A 2: 112,078,904 (GRCm39) T1004S probably benign Het
Or4a78 T A 2: 89,497,895 (GRCm39) I112F probably benign Het
Or4z4 A G 19: 12,076,754 (GRCm39) V83A probably benign Het
Or8c17 A T 9: 38,179,842 (GRCm39) N3I probably damaging Het
Oxr1 C A 15: 41,683,951 (GRCm39) A439E probably benign Het
Phf14 A T 6: 12,006,854 (GRCm39) K835N probably damaging Het
Prkdc T A 16: 15,633,850 (GRCm39) V3518E probably damaging Het
Ptpru T A 4: 131,503,663 (GRCm39) E1132D probably damaging Het
Rapgef6 T A 11: 54,567,206 (GRCm39) M1129K probably benign Het
Rgmb T C 17: 16,028,048 (GRCm39) K224E probably damaging Het
Ryr3 T C 2: 112,517,170 (GRCm39) I3318V possibly damaging Het
Slc9a4 A G 1: 40,642,045 (GRCm39) Y338C probably damaging Het
Smg5 T C 3: 88,256,576 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Tenm3 A T 8: 48,693,514 (GRCm39) Y1789* probably null Het
Tgm7 T C 2: 120,924,128 (GRCm39) E598G probably damaging Het
Tiam1 C T 16: 89,657,092 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Tmem175 A G 5: 108,790,948 (GRCm39) N166S probably benign Het
Trp73 G T 4: 154,146,510 (GRCm39) N368K probably benign Het
Trpc3 C T 3: 36,692,739 (GRCm39) R751H probably damaging Het
Trpm4 C A 7: 44,968,704 (GRCm39) A410S probably damaging Het
Ube2t T G 1: 134,899,095 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Vmn2r114 C T 17: 23,529,137 (GRCm39) A322T probably benign Het
Xylt2 C T 11: 94,558,455 (GRCm39) R567H probably benign Het
Zfp119b T C 17: 56,246,137 (GRCm39) K318E probably damaging Het
Zfp626 T G 7: 27,518,339 (GRCm39) L440R probably damaging Het
Zfp850 A G 7: 27,689,939 (GRCm39) S90P possibly damaging 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
R2483:Dffb UTSW 4 154,049,976 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
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
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'- AGTACTCTTAGTGGCCCCAG -3'
(R):5'- ATCTCGTGAGGCCAGAATGC -3'

Sequencing Primer
(F):5'- TCTTAGTGGCCCCAGAACAAAAGG -3'
(R):5'- CAGAATGCTTTTCCTAGGCAGTGAC -3'
Posted On 2018-11-28