1. Mutations in the V-ATPase Assembly Factor VMA21 Cause a Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation With Autophagic Liver Disease.
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Cannata Serio M, Graham LA, Ashikov A, Larsen LE, Raymond K, Timal S, Le Meur G, Ryan M, Czarnowska E, Jansen JC, He M, Ficicioglu C, Pichurin P, Hasadsri L, Minassian B, Rugierri A, Kalimo H, Ríos-Ocampo WA, Gilissen C, Rodenburg R, Jonker JW, Holleboom AG, Morava E, Veltman JA, Socha P, Stevens TH, Simons M, and Lefeber DJ
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- Adult, Biopsy, Cells, Cultured, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation blood, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation diagnosis, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation pathology, DNA Mutational Analysis, Fibroblasts, Humans, Liver cytology, Liver pathology, Liver Diseases blood, Liver Diseases diagnosis, Liver Diseases pathology, Male, Mutation, Missense, Pedigree, Primary Cell Culture, Autophagy genetics, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation genetics, Liver Diseases genetics, Vacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPases genetics
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Background and Aims: Vacuolar H+-ATP complex (V-ATPase) is a multisubunit protein complex required for acidification of intracellular compartments. At least five different factors are known to be essential for its assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Genetic defects in four of these V-ATPase assembly factors show overlapping clinical features, including steatotic liver disease and mild hypercholesterolemia. An exception is the assembly factor vacuolar ATPase assembly integral membrane protein (VMA21), whose X-linked mutations lead to autophagic myopathy., Approach and Results: Here, we report pathogenic variants in VMA21 in male patients with abnormal protein glycosylation that result in mild cholestasis, chronic elevation of aminotransferases, elevation of (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol and steatosis in hepatocytes. We also show that the VMA21 variants lead to V-ATPase misassembly and dysfunction. As a consequence, lysosomal acidification and degradation of phagocytosed materials are impaired, causing lipid droplet (LD) accumulation in autolysosomes. Moreover, VMA21 deficiency triggers ER stress and sequestration of unesterified cholesterol in lysosomes, thereby activating the sterol response element-binding protein-mediated cholesterol synthesis pathways., Conclusions: Together, our data suggest that impaired lipophagy, ER stress, and increased cholesterol synthesis lead to LD accumulation and hepatic steatosis. V-ATPase assembly defects are thus a form of hereditary liver disease with implications for the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease., (© 2020 The Authors. Hepatology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.)
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- 2020
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