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Mutant frizzled-4 disrupts retinal angiogenesis in familial exudative vitreoretinopathy 总被引:14,自引:0,他引:14
Robitaille J MacDonald ML Kaykas A Sheldahl LC Zeisler J Dubé MP Zhang LH Singaraja RR Guernsey DL Zheng B Siebert LF Hoskin-Mott A Trese MT Pimstone SN Shastry BS Moon RT Hayden MR Goldberg YP Samuels ME 《Nature genetics》2002,32(2):326-330
Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a hereditary ocular disorder characterized by a failure of peripheral retinal vascularization. Loci associated with FEVR map to 11q13-q23 (EVR1; OMIM 133780, ref. 1), Xp11.4 (EVR2; OMIM 305390, ref. 2) and 11p13-12 (EVR3; OMIM 605750, ref. 3). Here we have confirmed linkage to the 11q13-23 locus for autosomal dominant FEVR in one large multigenerational family and refined the disease locus to a genomic region spanning 1.55 Mb. Mutations in FZD4, encoding the putative Wnt receptor frizzled-4, segregated completely with affected individuals in the family and were detected in affected individuals from an additional unrelated family, but not in normal controls. FZD genes encode Wnt receptors, which are implicated in development and carcinogenesis. Injection of wildtype and mutated FZD4 into Xenopus laevis embryos revealed that wildtype, but not mutant, frizzled-4 activated calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CAMKII) and protein kinase C (PKC), components of the Wnt/Ca(2+) signaling pathway. In one of the mutants, altered subcellular trafficking led to defective signaling. These findings support a function for frizzled-4 in retinal angiogenesis and establish the first association between a Wnt receptor and human disease. 相似文献
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Guernsey DL Matsuoka M Jiang H Evans S Macgillivray C Nightingale M Perry S Ferguson M LeBlanc M Paquette J Patry L Rideout AL Thomas A Orr A McMaster CR Michaud JL Deal C Langlois S Superneau DW Parkash S Ludman M Skidmore DL Samuels ME 《Nature genetics》2011,43(4):360-364
Meier-Gorlin syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genetic condition whose primary clinical hallmarks include small stature, small external ears and small or absent patellae. Using marker-assisted mapping in multiple families from a founder population and traditional coding exon sequencing of positional candidate genes, we identified three different mutations in the gene encoding ORC4, a component of the eukaryotic origin recognition complex, in five individuals with Meier-Gorlin syndrome. In two such individuals that were negative for mutations in ORC4, we found potential mutations in ORC1 and CDT1, two other genes involved in origin recognition. ORC4 is well conserved in eukaryotes, and the yeast equivalent of the human ORC4 missense mutation was shown to be pathogenic in functional assays of cell growth. This is the first report, to our knowledge, of a germline mutation in any gene of the origin recognition complex in a vertebrate organism. 相似文献
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