PUBLICATION
Pathogenesis of CDK8-associated disorder: two patients with novel CDK8 variants and in vitro and in vivo functional analyses of the variants
- Authors
- Uehara, T., Abe, K., Oginuma, M., Ishitani, S., Yoshihashi, H., Okamoto, N., Takenouchi, T., Kosaki, K., Ishitani, T.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201020-48
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Scientific Reports 10: 17575 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Abe, Kota, Ishitani, Shizuka, Oginuma, Masayuki
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Abnormalities, Multiple/genetics
- Animals
- Child
- Craniofacial Abnormalities/genetics
- Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8/antagonists & inhibitors
- Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8/deficiency
- Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8/genetics*
- Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8/physiology
- Cyclin-Dependent Kinases/physiology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/abnormalities
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/enzymology
- Female
- Heart Defects, Congenital/genetics
- Heterozygote
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Humans
- Infant
- Intellectual Disability/genetics
- Loss of Function Mutation
- Male
- Mutation, Missense*
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders/genetics*
- Point Mutation*
- Protein Domains
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- Zebrafish Proteins/physiology
- PubMed
- 33067521 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Citation
Uehara, T., Abe, K., Oginuma, M., Ishitani, S., Yoshihashi, H., Okamoto, N., Takenouchi, T., Kosaki, K., Ishitani, T. (2020) Pathogenesis of CDK8-associated disorder: two patients with novel CDK8 variants and in vitro and in vivo functional analyses of the variants. Scientific Reports. 10:17575.
Abstract
Cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) is a member of the CDK/Cyclin module of the mediator complex. A recent study reported that heterozygous missense CDK8 mutations cause a neurodevelopmental disorder in humans. The mechanistic basis of CDK8-related disorder has yet to be delineated. Here, we report 2 patients with de novo missense mutations within the kinase domain of CDK8 along with the results of in vitro and in vivo functional analyses using a zebrafish model. Patient 1 and Patient 2 had intellectual disabilities and congenital anomalies. Exome analyses showed that patient 1 had a heterozygous de novo missense p.G28A variant in the CDK8 (NM_001260.3) gene and patient 2 had a heterozygous de novo missense p.N156S variant in the CDK8 gene. We assessed the pathogenicity of these two variants using cultured-cells and zebrafish model. An in vitro kinase assay of human CDK8 showed that enzymes with a p.G28A or p.N156S substitution showed decreased kinase activity. An in vivo assays of zebrafish overexpression analyses also showed that the p.G28A and p.N156S alleles were hypomorphic alleles. Importantly, the inhibition of CDK8 kinase activity in zebrafish embryos using a specific chemical inhibitor induced craniofacial and heart defects similar to the patients' phenotype. Taken together, zebrafish studies showed that non-synonymous variants in the kinase domain of CDK8 act as hypomorphic alleles causing human congenital disorder.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping