Mutations in ISPD cause Walker-Warburg syndrome and defective glycosylation of a-dystroglycan  

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Roscioli, Tony ; Kamsteeg, Erik-Jan ; Buysse, Karen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Nature Genetics vol. 44 no. 05 (May 2012), page 581–585.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N12.K.2012.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by complex eye and brain abnormalities with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) and aberrant a-dystroglycan glycosylation. Here we report mutations in the ISPD gene (encoding isoprenoid synthase domain containing) as the second most common cause of WWS. Bacterial IspD is a nucleotidyl transferase belonging to a large glycosyltransferase family, but the role of the orthologous protein in chordates is obscure to date, as this phylum does not have the corresponding non-mevalonate isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway. Knockdown of ispd in zebrafish recapitulates the human WWS phenotype with hydrocephalus, reduced eye size, muscle degeneration and hypoglycosylated a-dystroglycan. These results implicate ISPD in a-dystroglycan glycosylation in maintaining sarcolemma integrity in vertebrates.

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