Publication:

Muscular dystrophy and neuronal migration disorder caused by mutations in a glycosyltransferase, POMGnT1 (2001)

Author(s): Straub V; Yoshida A; Kobayashi K; Manya H; Taniguchi K; Kano H; Mizuno M; Inazu T; Mitsuhashi H; Takahashi S; Takeuchi M; Herrmann R; Talim B; Voit T; Topaloglu H; Toda T; Endo T

  • : Muscular dystrophy and neuronal migration disorder caused by mutations in a glycosyltransferase, POMGnT1

Abstract: Muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy, ocular abnormalities, and lissencephaly. Mammalian O-mannosyl glycosylation is a rare type of protein modification that is observed in a limited number of glycoproteins of brain, nerve, and skeletal muscle. Here we isolated a human cDNA for protein O-mannose beta-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (POMGnT1), which participates in O-mannosyl glycan synthesis. We also identified six independent mutations of the POMGnT1 gene in six patients with MEB. Expression of most frequent mutation revealed a great loss of the enzymatic activity. These findings suggest that interference in O-mannosyl glycosylation is a new pathomechanism for muscular dystrophy as well as neuronal migration disorder.

  • Short Title: Muscular dystrophy and neuronal migration disorder caused by mutations in a glycosyltransferase, POMGnT1
  • Date: 01-11-2001
  • Journal: Developmental Cell
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 5
  • Pages: 717-724
  • Publisher: Cell Press
  • Publication type: Article
  • Bibliographic status: Published

Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence Base Sequence Blotting, Western Cell Line Cell Movement Child, Preschool Cloning, Molecular DNA Mutational Analysis Female Gene Expression Glycosyltransferases/chemistry/ genetics/ metabolism Humans Male Molecular Sequence Data Muscular Dystrophies/ enzymology/ genetics/pathology Mutagenesis, Site-Directed N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases/chemistry/ genetics/ metabolism Pedigree Phylogeny Point Mutation/ genetics RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Substrate Specificity

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Professor Volker Straub
Harold Macmillan Professor of Medicine