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Recessive Rare Variants in Deoxyhypusine Synthase, an Enzyme Involved in the Synthesis of Hypusine, Are Associated with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2019.
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Abstract
- Hypusine is formed post-translationally from lysine and is found in a single cellular protein, eukaryotic translation initiation factor-5A (eIF5A), and its homolog eIF5A2. Biosynthesis of hypusine is a two-step reaction involving the enzymes deoxyhypusine synthase (DHPS) and deoxyhypusine hydroxylase (DOHH). eIF5A is highly conserved throughout eukaryotic evolution and plays a role in mRNA translation, cellular proliferation, cellular differentiation, and inflammation. DHPS is also highly conserved and is essential for life, as Dhps-null mice are embryonic lethal. Using exome sequencing, we identified rare biallelic, recurrent, predicted likely pathogenic variants in DHPS segregating with disease in five affected individuals from four unrelated families. These individuals have similar neurodevelopmental features that include global developmental delay and seizures. Two of four affected females have short stature. All five affected individuals share a recurrent missense variant (c.518A>G [p.Asn173Ser]) in trans with a likely gene disrupting variant (c.1014+1G>A, c.912_917delTTACAT [p.Tyr305_Ile306del], or c.1A>G [p.Met1?]). cDNA studies demonstrated that the c.1014+1G>A variant causes aberrant splicing. Recombinant DHPS enzyme harboring either the p.Asn173Ser or p.Tyr305_Ile306del variant showed reduced (20%) or absent in vitro activity, respectively. We co-transfected constructs overexpressing HA-tagged DHPS (wild-type or mutant) and GFP-tagged eIF5A into HEK293T cells to determine the effect of these variants on hypusine biosynthesis and observed that the p.Tyr305_Ile306del and p.Asn173Ser variants resulted in reduced hypusination of eIF5A compared to wild-type DHPS enzyme. Our data suggest that rare biallelic variants in DHPS result in reduced enzyme activity that limits the hypusination of eIF5A and are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Male
Developmental Disabilities
Mutant
DHPS
Genes, Recessive
Article
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Eukaryotic translation
Peptide Initiation Factors
Seizures
parasitic diseases
Genetics
Deoxyhypusine synthase
Humans
Amino Acid Sequence
Child
Gene
Genetics (clinical)
Alleles
Hypusine
Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors
biology
Lysine
RNA-Binding Proteins
Deoxyhypusine Hydroxylase
Pedigree
030104 developmental biology
chemistry
Haplotypes
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Child, Preschool
Mutation
biology.protein
Female
EIF5A
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bbd884b5a92a0de7b675b22d6e13b7c9