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Mutations in INPPSK, Encoding a Phosphoinositide 5-Phosphatase, Cause Congenital Muscular Dystrophy with Cataracts and Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Mutations in INPPSK, Encoding a Phosphoinositide 5-Phosphatase, Cause Congenital Muscular Dystrophy with Cataracts and Mild Cognitive Impairment

Manuela Wiessner, Andreas Roos, Christopher J. Munn, Ranjith Viswanathan, Tamieka Whyte, Dan Cox, Benedikt Schoser, Caroline Sewry, Helen Roper, Rahul Phadke, …
American journal of human genetics, Vol.100(3), pp.523-536
03/02/2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.01.024
PMCID: PMC5339217
PMID: 28190456
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Abstract

Phosphoinositides are small phospholipids that control diverse cellular downstream signaling events. Their spatial and temporal availability is tightly regulated by a set of specific lipid kinases and phosphatases. Congenital muscular dystrophies are hereditary disorders characterized by hypotonia and weakness from birth with variable eye and central nervous system involvement. In individuals exhibiting congenital muscular dystrophy, early-onset cataracts, and mild intellectual disability but normal cranial magnetic resonance imaging, we identified bi-allelic mutations in INPP5K, encoding inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase K. Mutations impaired phosphatase activity toward the phosphoinositide phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate or altered the subcellular localization of INPP5K. Down regulation of INPP5K orthologs in zebrafish embryos disrupted muscle fiber morphology and resulted in abnormal eye development. These data link congenital muscular dystrophies to defective phosphoinositide 5-phosphatase activity that is becoming increasingly recognized for its role in mediating pivotal cellular mechanisms contributing to disease.
Genetics & Heredity Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology

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