PUBLICATION
POMK mutations disrupt muscle development leading to a spectrum of neuromuscular presentations
- Authors
- DiCostanzo, S., Balasubramanian, A., Pond, H.L., Rozkalne, A., Pantaleoni, C., Saredi, S., Gupta, V.A., Sunu, C.M., Yu, T.W., Kang, P.B., Salih, M.A., Mora, M., Gussoni, E., Walsh, C.A., Manzini, M.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140614-5
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Human molecular genetics 23(21): 5781-92 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Gupta, Vandana A
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Brain/metabolism
- Brain/pathology
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Consanguinity
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dystroglycans/metabolism
- Exome
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Gene Silencing
- Genetic Association Studies*
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Glycosylation
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle Development/genetics*
- Mutation*
- Neuromuscular Diseases/diagnosis*
- Neuromuscular Diseases/genetics*
- Pedigree
- Phenotype*
- Protein Kinases/chemistry
- Protein Kinases/genetics*
- Sequence Alignment
- Young Adult
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 24925318 Full text @ Hum. Mol. Genet.
Citation
DiCostanzo, S., Balasubramanian, A., Pond, H.L., Rozkalne, A., Pantaleoni, C., Saredi, S., Gupta, V.A., Sunu, C.M., Yu, T.W., Kang, P.B., Salih, M.A., Mora, M., Gussoni, E., Walsh, C.A., Manzini, M.C. (2014) POMK mutations disrupt muscle development leading to a spectrum of neuromuscular presentations. Human molecular genetics. 23(21):5781-92.
Abstract
Dystroglycan is a transmembrane glycoprotein whose interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM) are necessary for normal muscle and brain development, and disruptions of its function lead to dystroglycanopathies, a group of congenital muscular dystrophies showing extreme genetic and clinical heterogeneity. Specific glycans bound to the extracellular portion dystroglycan, α-dystroglycan, mediate ECM interactions and most known dystroglycanopathy genes encode glycosyltransferases involved in glycan synthesis. POMK, which was found mutated in one severe dystroglycanopathy case, is instead involved in a glycan phosphorylation reaction critical for ECM binding, but little is known about the clinical presentation of POMK mutations or of the function of this protein in the muscle. Here we describe two families carrying different truncating alleles, both removing the kinase domain in POMK, with different clinical manifestations ranging from Walker Warburg Syndrome, the most severe form of dystroglycanopathy, to limb-girdle muscular dystrophy with cognitive defects. We explored POMK expression in fetal and adult human muscle and identified widespread expression primarily during fetal development in myocytes and interstitial cells suggesting a role for this protein during early muscle differentiation. Analysis loss of function in the zebrafish embryo and larva showed that pomk function is necessary for normal muscle development, leading to locomotor dysfuction in the embryo and signs of muscular dystrophy in the larva. In summary, we defined diverse clinical presentations following POMK mutations and showed that this gene is necessary for early muscle development.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping