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Dominant mutations in GRHL3 cause Van der Woude Syndrome and disrupt oral periderm development.

ABSTRACT: Mutations in interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) account for ?70% of cases of Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), the most common syndromic form of cleft lip and palate. In 8 of 45 VWS-affected families lacking a mutation in IRF6, we found coding mutations in grainyhead-like 3 (GRHL3). According to a zebrafish-based assay, the disease-associated GRHL3 mutations abrogated periderm development and were consistent with a dominant-negative effect, in contrast to haploinsufficiency seen in most VWS cases caused by IRF6 mutations. In mouse, all embryos lacking Grhl3 exhibited abnormal oral periderm and 17% developed a cleft palate. Analysis of the oral phenotype of double heterozygote (Irf6(+/-);Grhl3(+/-)) murine embryos failed to detect epistasis between the two genes, suggesting that they function in separate but convergent pathways during palatogenesis. Taken together, our data demonstrated that mutations in two genes, IRF6 and GRHL3, can lead to nearly identical phenotypes of orofacial cleft. They supported the hypotheses that both genes are essential for the presence of a functional oral periderm and that failure of this process contributes to VWS.

SUBMITTER: Peyrard-Janvid M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3882735 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Dominant mutations in GRHL3 cause Van der Woude Syndrome and disrupt oral periderm development.

Peyrard-Janvid Myriam M Leslie Elizabeth J EJ Kousa Youssef A YA Smith Tiffany L TL Dunnwald Martine M Magnusson Måns M Lentz Brian A BA Unneberg Per P Fransson Ingegerd I Koillinen Hannele K HK Rautio Jorma J Pegelow Marie M Karsten Agneta A Basel-Vanagaite Lina L Gordon William W Andersen Bogi B Svensson Thomas T Murray Jeffrey C JC Cornell Robert A RA Kere Juha J Schutte Brian C BC

American journal of human genetics 20131219 1

Mutations in interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) account for ∼70% of cases of Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), the most common syndromic form of cleft lip and palate. In 8 of 45 VWS-affected families lacking a mutation in IRF6, we found coding mutations in grainyhead-like 3 (GRHL3). According to a zebrafish-based assay, the disease-associated GRHL3 mutations abrogated periderm development and were consistent with a dominant-negative effect, in contrast to haploinsufficiency seen in most VWS cases ...[more]

PMID: 24360809

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Project description:Background:Loss-of-function mutations in interferon regulatory factor-6 (IRF6) are responsible for about 70% of cases of Van Der Woude Syndrome (VWS), an autosomal dominant developmental disorder characterized by pits and/or sinuses of the lower lip and cleft lip, cleft palate, or both. Methods:We collected a Chinese Han VWS pedigree, performed sequencing and screening for the causal gene mutant. Initially, species conservation analysis and homology protein modeling were used to predict the potential pathogenicity of mutations. To test whether a VWS family-derived mutant variant of IRF6 retained function, we carried out rescue assays in irf6 maternal-null mutant zebrafish embryos. To assess protein stability, we overexpressed reference and family-variants of IRF6 in vitro. Results:We focused on a VWS family that includes a son with bilateral lip pits, uvula fissa and his father with bilateral cleft lip and palate. After sequencing and screening, a frameshift mutation of IRF6 was identified as the potential causal variant (NM.006147.3, c.1088-1091delTCTA; p.Ile363ArgfsTer33). The residues in this position are strongly conserved among species and homology modeling suggests the variant alters the protein structure. In irf6 maternal-null mutant zebrafish embryos the periderm differentiates abnormally and the embryos rupture and die during gastrulation. Injection of mRNA encoding the reference variant of human IRF6, but not of the frame-shift variant, rescued such embryos through gastrulation. Upon overexpression in HEK293FT cells, the IRF6 frame-shift mutant was relatively unstable and was preferentially targeted to the proteasome in comparison to the reference variant. Conclusion:In this VWS pedigree, a novel frameshift of IRF6 was identified as the likely causative gene variant. It is a lost function mutation which could not rescue abnormal periderm phenotype in irf6 maternal-null zebrafish and which causes the protein be unstable through proteasome-dependent degradation.

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Dominant mutations in GRHL3 cause Van der Woude Syndrome and disrupt oral periderm development.

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Dominant mutations in GRHL3 cause Van der Woude Syndrome and disrupt oral periderm development.

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