PUBLICATION
ALK2 mutation in a patient with Down's syndrome and a congenital heart defect
- Authors
- Joziasse, I.C., Smith, K.A., Chocron, S., van Dinther, M., Guryev, V., van de Smagt, J.J., Cuppen, E., Ten Dijke, P., Mulder, B.J., Maslen, C.L., Reshey, B., Doevendans, P.A., and Bakkers, J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-110124-14
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- European journal of human genetics : EJHG 19(4): 389-93 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Bakkers, Jeroen, Chocron, Sonja, Cuppen, Edwin, Guryev, Victor
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Activin Receptors, Type I/chemistry
- Activin Receptors, Type I/genetics*
- Activin Receptors, Type I/metabolism
- Animals
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 1/metabolism
- Cattle
- Down Syndrome/complications
- Down Syndrome/genetics*
- Female
- Heart Defects, Congenital/diagnosis
- Heart Defects, Congenital/etiology*
- Heart Defects, Congenital/genetics*
- Heart Septal Defects, Atrial/genetics
- Heart Septal Defects, Atrial/pathology
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation/genetics*
- Protein Conformation
- Zebrafish/genetics
- PubMed
- 21248739 Full text @ Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
Citation
Joziasse, I.C., Smith, K.A., Chocron, S., van Dinther, M., Guryev, V., van de Smagt, J.J., Cuppen, E., Ten Dijke, P., Mulder, B.J., Maslen, C.L., Reshey, B., Doevendans, P.A., and Bakkers, J. (2011) ALK2 mutation in a patient with Down's syndrome and a congenital heart defect. European journal of human genetics : EJHG. 19(4):389-93.
Abstract
Down's syndrome (DS), resulting from an additional copy of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21), is frequently associated with congenital heart defects (CHDs). Although the increased dosage of chromosome 21 sequences is likely to be part of the etiology of cardiac defects, only a proportion of DS patients exhibit a congenital heart defect (birth prevalence 40-60%). Through a large-candidate gene-sequencing screen in patients with atrioventricular septal defects, substitutions were identified in bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) type I receptor ALK2 and two other genes in a patient with DS and a primum-type atrial septal defect. Structural modeling of the cytoplasmic domain of the ALK2 receptor suggests that H286 is in close proximity to the nucleotide-binding site of the kinase domain. We investigated whether this p.His286Asp substitution altered ALK2 function by using both in vitro as well as in vivo assays. The p.His286Asp variant demonstrated impaired functional activity as measured by BMP-specific transcriptional response assays. Furthermore, mild dominant-interfering activity was observed in vivo compared with wild-type ALK2 as determined by RNA injection into zebrafish embryos. These data indicate that in the context of a DS background, ALK2-mediated reduction of BMP signaling may contribute to CHDs.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping