PUBLICATION
Disruption of AP1S1, causing a novel neurocutaneous syndrome, perturbs development of the skin and spinal cord
- Authors
- Montpetit, A., Côté, S., Brustein, E., Drouin, C.A., Lapointe, L., Boudreau, M., Meloche, C., Drouin, R., Hudson, T.J., Drapeau, P., and Cossette, P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-081217-12
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- PLoS Genetics 4(12): e1000296 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Brustein, Edna, Drapeau, Pierre
- Keywords
- Larvae, Zebrafish, Mutation, Phenotypes, Spinal cord, Keratinocytes, Membrane proteins, Morpholino
- MeSH Terms
-
- Adaptor Protein Complex 1/genetics*
- Adaptor Protein Complex 1/metabolism
- Adaptor Protein Complex sigma Subunits/genetics*
- Adaptor Protein Complex sigma Subunits/metabolism
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Female
- Gene Knockdown Techniques*
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
- Neurocutaneous Syndromes/genetics*
- Neurocutaneous Syndromes/metabolism
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Skin/growth & development*
- Skin/metabolism
- Spinal Cord/growth & development*
- Spinal Cord/metabolism
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/growth & development
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 19057675 Full text @ PLoS Genet.
Citation
Montpetit, A., Côté, S., Brustein, E., Drouin, C.A., Lapointe, L., Boudreau, M., Meloche, C., Drouin, R., Hudson, T.J., Drapeau, P., and Cossette, P. (2008) Disruption of AP1S1, causing a novel neurocutaneous syndrome, perturbs development of the skin and spinal cord. PLoS Genetics. 4(12):e1000296.
Abstract
Adaptor protein (AP) complexes regulate clathrin-coated vesicle assembly, protein cargo sorting, and vesicular trafficking between organelles in eukaryotic cells. Because disruption of the various subunits of the AP complexes is embryonic lethal in the majority of cases, characterization of their function in vivo is still lacking. Here, we describe the first mutation in the human AP1S1 gene, encoding the small subunit sigma1A of the AP-1 complex. This founder splice mutation, which leads to a premature stop codon, was found in four families with a unique syndrome characterized by mental retardation, enteropathy, deafness, peripheral neuropathy, ichthyosis, and keratodermia (MEDNIK). To validate the pathogenic effect of the mutation, we knocked down Ap1s1 expression in zebrafish using selective antisens morpholino oligonucleotides (AMO). The knockdown phenotype consisted of perturbation in skin formation, reduced pigmentation, and severe motility deficits due to impaired neural network development. Both neural and skin defects were rescued by co-injection of AMO with wild-type (WT) human AP1S1 mRNA, but not by co-injecting the truncated form of AP1S1, consistent with a loss-of-function effect of this mutation. Together, these results confirm AP1S1 as the gene responsible for MEDNIK syndrome and demonstrate a critical role of AP1S1 in development of the skin and spinal cord.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping