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Autosomal-Recessive Mutations in MESD Cause Osteogenesis Imperfecta.


ABSTRACT: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) comprises a genetically heterogeneous group of skeletal fragility diseases. Here, we report on five independent families with a progressively deforming type of OI, in whom we identified four homozygous truncation or frameshift mutations in MESD. Affected individuals had recurrent fractures and at least one had oligodontia. MESD encodes an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone protein for the canonical Wingless-related integration site (WNT) signaling receptors LRP5 and LRP6. Because complete absence of MESD causes embryonic lethality in mice, we hypothesized that the OI-associated mutations are hypomorphic alleles since these mutations occur downstream of the chaperone activity domain but upstream of ER-retention domain. This would be consistent with the clinical phenotypes of skeletal fragility and oligodontia in persons deficient for LRP5 and LRP6, respectively. When we expressed wild-type (WT) and mutant MESD in HEK293T cells, we detected WT MESD in cell lysate but not in conditioned medium, whereas the converse was true for mutant MESD. We observed that both WT and mutant MESD retained the ability to chaperone LRP5. Thus, OI-associated MESD mutations produce hypomorphic alleles whose failure to remain within the ER significantly reduces but does not completely eliminate LRP5 and LRP6 trafficking. Since these individuals have no eye abnormalities (which occur in individuals completely lacking LRP5) and have neither limb nor brain patterning defects (both of which occur in mice completely lacking LRP6), we infer that bone mass accrual and dental patterning are more sensitive to reduced canonical WNT signaling than are other developmental processes. Biologic agents that can increase LRP5 and LRP6-mediated WNT signaling could benefit individuals with MESD-associated OI.

SUBMITTER: Moosa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6817720 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Autosomal-Recessive Mutations in MESD Cause Osteogenesis Imperfecta.

Moosa Shahida S   Yamamoto Guilherme L GL   Garbes Lutz L   Keupp Katharina K   Beleza-Meireles Ana A   Moreno Carolina Araujo CA   Valadares Eugenia Ribeiro ER   de Sousa Sérgio B SB   Maia Sofia S   Saraiva Jorge J   Honjo Rachel S RS   Kim Chong Ae CA   Cabral de Menezes Hamilton H   Lausch Ekkehart E   Lorini Pablo Villavicencio PV   Lamounier Arsonval A   Carniero Tulio Canella Bezerra TCB   Giunta Cecilia C   Rohrbach Marianne M   Janner Marco M   Semler Oliver O   Beleggia Filippo F   Li Yun Y   Yigit Gökhan G   Reintjes Nadine N   Altmüller Janine J   Nürnberg Peter P   Cavalcanti Denise P DP   Zabel Bernhard B   Warman Matthew L ML   Bertola Debora R DR   Wollnik Bernd B   Netzer Christian C  

American journal of human genetics 20190926 4


Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) comprises a genetically heterogeneous group of skeletal fragility diseases. Here, we report on five independent families with a progressively deforming type of OI, in whom we identified four homozygous truncation or frameshift mutations in MESD. Affected individuals had recurrent fractures and at least one had oligodontia. MESD encodes an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone protein for the canonical Wingless-related integration site (WNT) signaling receptors LRP5 an  ...[more]

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