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Mutations in the gene encoding IFT dynein complex component WDR34 cause Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy.

ABSTRACT: Bidirectional (anterograde and retrograde) motor-based intraflagellar transport (IFT) governs cargo transport and delivery processes that are essential for primary cilia growth and maintenance and for hedgehog signaling functions. The IFT dynein-2 motor complex that regulates ciliary retrograde protein transport contains a heavy chain dynein ATPase/motor subunit, DYNC2H1, along with other less well functionally defined subunits. Deficiency of IFT proteins, including DYNC2H1, underlies a spectrum of skeletal ciliopathies. Here, by using exome sequencing and a targeted next-generation sequencing panel, we identified a total of 11 mutations in WDR34 in 9 families with the clinical diagnosis of Jeune syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy). WDR34 encodes a WD40 repeat-containing protein orthologous to Chlamydomonas FAP133, a dynein intermediate chain associated with the retrograde intraflagellar transport motor. Three-dimensional protein modeling suggests that the identified mutations all affect residues critical for WDR34 protein-protein interactions. We find that WDR34 concentrates around the centrioles and basal bodies in mammalian cells, also showing axonemal staining. WDR34 coimmunoprecipitates with the dynein-1 light chain DYNLL1 in vitro, and mining of proteomics data suggests that WDR34 could represent a previously unrecognized link between the cytoplasmic dynein-1 and IFT dynein-2 motors. Together, these data show that WDR34 is critical for ciliary functions essential to normal development and survival, most probably as a previously unrecognized component of the mammalian dynein-IFT machinery.

SUBMITTER: Schmidts M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3824113 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mutations in the gene encoding IFT dynein complex component WDR34 cause Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy.

Schmidts Miriam M Vodopiutz Julia J Christou-Savina Sonia S Cortés Claudio R CR McInerney-Leo Aideen M AM Emes Richard D RD Arts Heleen H HH Tüysüz Beyhan B D'Silva Jason J Leo Paul J PJ Giles Tom C TC Oud Machteld M MM Harris Jessica A JA Koopmans Marije M Marshall Mhairi M Elçioglu Nursel N Kuechler Alma A Bockenhauer Detlef D Moore Anthony T AT Wilson Louise C LC Janecke Andreas R AR Hurles Matthew E ME Emmet Warren W Gardiner Brooke B Streubel Berthold B Dopita Belinda B Zankl Andreas A Kayserili Hülya H Scambler Peter J PJ Brown Matthew A MA Beales Philip L PL Wicking Carol C Duncan Emma L EL Mitchison Hannah M HM

American journal of human genetics 20131031 5

Bidirectional (anterograde and retrograde) motor-based intraflagellar transport (IFT) governs cargo transport and delivery processes that are essential for primary cilia growth and maintenance and for hedgehog signaling functions. The IFT dynein-2 motor complex that regulates ciliary retrograde protein transport contains a heavy chain dynein ATPase/motor subunit, DYNC2H1, along with other less well functionally defined subunits. Deficiency of IFT proteins, including DYNC2H1, underlies a spectrum ...[more]

PMID: 24183451

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Project description:Jeune syndrome, or asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy (JATD), is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia with heterogeneous genetic and clinical phenotypes, which primarily affects cartilage and bone development. Herein, we report a patient with a lethal form of SRTD3 without polydactyly (JATD), which led to severe restrictive lung disease and fatal respiratory failure. A full-term boy was born to a 30-year-old mother who was known to have hypothyroidism and was on thyroxine. The parents were first-degree cousins and had one healthy older son. Fetal ultrasound showed a cephalic fetus, normal amniotic fluid and a fundal placenta. All long bones and ribs were below the 1% percentile. The femur was bowed with no fractures or signs of significant demineralization at time of imaging. Head and abdominal circumference were within normal range. An echocardiogram on the 2nd day of life showed severe pulmonary hypertension (PHTN). Nitric oxide was started due to the presence of persistent hypoxia and severe PHTN. The patient continued to require high cardiorespiratory support, but the medical condition worsened, and respiratory failure persisted. The patient died of severe respiratory failure at 16 days of life due to respiratory insufficiency secondary to a severely restricted thoracic cage. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) revealed a homozygous mutation in the DYNC2H1 (NM_001377.3) gene, namely, the c.9041G>T NP_001368.2: p.(Arg3014Ile) missense variant, which results in the substitution of the arginine codon at amino acid position 3014 with an isoleucine codon. The phenotyping of the patient's JATD and the detection of a homozygous variant in the DYNC2H1 gene confirmed the diagnosis of short-rib thoracic dysplasia-3 without polydactyly. In summary, the patient had isolated skeletal anomalies without polydactyly or other organ involvement. Additionally, the infant had severe PHTN on top of the respiratory failure, which eventually caused death. Considerably more work will need to be done to determine the clinical spectrum of JATD and understand its genetic heterogeneity.

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Mutations in the gene encoding IFT dynein complex component WDR34 cause Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy.

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Mutations in the gene encoding IFT dynein complex component WDR34 cause Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy.

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