“…The deaminase domain, located in the codon from 886 to 1221 bp, represents approximately 27% of the length of the ADAR1 protein, (XuFeng et al, 2009). To date, over 130 unique ADAR1 gene mutations have been detected, with more than 60% of those located within the ADEAMc domain (Bilen et al, 2012;Kantaputra et al, 2012;Kawaguchi et al, 2012;Lai et al, 2012;Luo et al, 2012;Mizrahi et al, 2012;Mohana et al, 2012;Shi et al, 2012), suggesting that the domain is a hot spot for mutations. The ADEAMc domain catalyzes the deamination of adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNA substrates to subsequently create alterative splicing sites or codon alterations, and thus ultimately leads to functional changes in proteins (Wagner et al, 1989;Rueter et al, 1999).…”