Incidental Mutation 'R8910:Dffb'
ID 678541
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 068701-MU
Accession Numbers
Essential gene? Non essential (E-score: 0.000) question?
Stock # R8910 (G1)
Quality Score 225.009
Status Validated
Chromosome 4
Chromosomal Location 154048904-154059578 bp(-) (GRCm39)
Type of Mutation missense
DNA Base Change (assembly) T to C at 154057416 bp (GRCm39)
Zygosity Heterozygous
Amino Acid Change Aspartic acid to Glycine at position 87 (D87G)
Ref Sequence ENSEMBL: ENSMUSP00000151699 (fasta)
Gene Model predicted gene model for transcript(s): [ENSMUST00000030893] [ENSMUST00000047497] [ENSMUST00000133607]
AlphaFold O54788
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000030893
AA Change: D87G

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.012 (Sensitivity: 0.96; Specificity: 0.78)
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000030893
Gene: ENSMUSG00000029027
AA Change: D87G

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: ENSMUST00000047497
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000040762
Gene: ENSMUSG00000039523

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
coiled coil region 222 249 N/A INTRINSIC
low complexity region 288 301 N/A INTRINSIC
low complexity region 307 320 N/A INTRINSIC
SCOP:d1gw5b_ 523 646 3e-5 SMART
coiled coil region 688 730 N/A INTRINSIC
low complexity region 889 903 N/A INTRINSIC
Predicted Effect possibly damaging
Transcript: ENSMUST00000133607
AA Change: D87G

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.840 (Sensitivity: 0.84; Specificity: 0.93)
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000142671
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000154458
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000219093
Coding Region Coverage
  • 1x: 100.0%
  • 3x: 99.9%
  • 10x: 99.7%
  • 20x: 98.9%
Validation Efficiency 100% (62/62)
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: 62 list
GeneRefVarChr/LocMutationPredicted EffectZygosity
2210408I21Rik A G 13: 77,471,768 (GRCm39) I1058V probably benign Het
Abca5 T C 11: 110,189,030 (GRCm39) E809G probably damaging Het
Akap12 A T 10: 4,263,822 (GRCm39) Q77L probably benign Het
Aldh5a1 A G 13: 25,102,599 (GRCm39) V288A probably damaging Het
Alox5 C A 6: 116,389,510 (GRCm39) E586* probably null Het
Anxa2r1 T A 13: 120,508,356 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Arid5b A G 10: 67,934,108 (GRCm39) F598S Het
Btc A C 5: 91,508,671 (GRCm39) M157R probably benign Het
Cadps2 T C 6: 23,344,223 (GRCm39) N908S probably benign Het
Cd244a C A 1: 171,386,941 (GRCm39) H17N probably damaging Het
Cdh15 T C 8: 123,575,240 (GRCm39) L5P probably benign Het
Cep15 A G 14: 12,285,444 (GRCm38) H10R probably benign Het
Cept1 A C 3: 106,446,565 (GRCm39) S94A probably benign Het
Cntn4 T C 6: 106,632,497 (GRCm39) M507T probably benign Het
Cpne4 A G 9: 104,799,706 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Dlgap1 C T 17: 71,093,815 (GRCm39) T712I probably damaging Het
Dnhd1 A C 7: 105,332,904 (GRCm39) H155P possibly damaging Het
Dpyd A G 3: 118,404,167 (GRCm39) K38R probably benign Het
Evx1 C T 6: 52,293,746 (GRCm39) R305C probably damaging Het
Ezr A G 17: 7,023,299 (GRCm39) L47P probably damaging Het
Fabp6 C T 11: 43,492,335 (GRCm39) A2T possibly damaging Het
Fam78a G A 2: 31,959,681 (GRCm39) T143M probably damaging Het
Fam83h C T 15: 75,874,844 (GRCm39) G831D probably benign Het
Fermt2 G A 14: 45,702,389 (GRCm39) A465V probably damaging Het
Fras1 T C 5: 96,715,855 (GRCm39) S358P probably benign Het
Frem1 C A 4: 82,868,694 (GRCm39) G1429V probably benign Het
Fst T A 13: 114,590,245 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Gfpt1 T C 6: 87,030,787 (GRCm39) I57T probably benign Het
Gimap6 A G 6: 48,679,388 (GRCm39) I216T probably damaging Het
Gm10267 T A 18: 44,289,511 (GRCm39) N73I possibly damaging Het
H2-M2 G A 17: 37,792,413 (GRCm39) T286I probably damaging Het
Hgs T C 11: 120,369,202 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Klra6 T C 6: 129,993,647 (GRCm39) E208G probably benign Het
L3mbtl1 A T 2: 162,812,213 (GRCm39) T753S probably benign Het
Larp6 A G 9: 60,620,526 (GRCm39) E13G probably benign Het
Mroh2b A G 15: 4,960,855 (GRCm39) I806V probably benign Het
Myo1g T C 11: 6,468,009 (GRCm39) N142S possibly damaging Het
Myo3a A G 2: 22,464,280 (GRCm39) T1112A probably benign Het
Or4b1b C A 2: 90,126,848 (GRCm39) R119L possibly damaging Het
Pelp1 A T 11: 70,287,461 (GRCm39) M449K probably damaging Het
Ppp4r1 T C 17: 66,144,768 (GRCm39) V795A probably damaging Het
Ppp4r3b G T 11: 29,146,290 (GRCm39) M372I probably null Het
Ptprk T C 10: 28,368,993 (GRCm39) V655A possibly damaging Het
Rad51d T C 11: 82,773,793 (GRCm39) R166G probably damaging Het
Rbm19 T A 5: 120,271,844 (GRCm39) Y650N probably damaging Het
Rreb1 A G 13: 38,132,741 (GRCm39) K204E Het
Ryr1 A G 7: 28,771,340 (GRCm39) L2567P probably damaging Het
Scn3a T A 2: 65,338,883 (GRCm39) S599C probably damaging Het
Slc7a15 T A 12: 8,589,117 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Taf6 T C 5: 138,182,716 (GRCm39) T12A probably benign Het
Tbc1d10b T C 7: 126,806,938 (GRCm39) T200A probably benign Het
Tex21 C T 12: 76,263,533 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Thap4 T C 1: 93,642,666 (GRCm39) H515R probably damaging Het
Tmem94 A G 11: 115,688,252 (GRCm39) Q1237R probably damaging Het
Tppp3 A G 8: 106,194,924 (GRCm39) V69A probably benign Het
Unc5a A G 13: 55,151,401 (GRCm39) E695G possibly damaging Het
Wtip G A 7: 33,832,063 (GRCm39) P141L possibly damaging Het
Wwp1 A T 4: 19,627,741 (GRCm39) M718K possibly damaging Het
Zbtb25 A C 12: 76,395,908 (GRCm39) V438G probably damaging Het
Zfp444 T C 7: 6,187,026 (GRCm39) L46P probably damaging Het
Zfp521 T C 18: 13,977,233 (GRCm39) H1060R probably benign Het
Zkscan14 A G 5: 145,132,190 (GRCm39) F447S probably 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
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
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'- ACATACCTTCAAACCAGGATGGG -3'
(R):5'- AGACCAAGTGTGCTGCTTTTC -3'

Sequencing Primer
(F):5'- GGATGGGTCCTGCTCCC -3'
(R):5'- CCAAGTGTGCTGCTTTTCTAGGATAC -3'
Posted On 2021-08-02