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Bi-allelic mutations in uncoordinated mutant number-45 myosin chaperone B are a cause for congenital myopathy.


ABSTRACT: Congenital myopathies (CM) form a genetically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by perinatal muscle weakness. Here, we report an 11-year old male offspring of consanguineous parents of Lebanese origin. He presented with proximal weakness including Gower's sign, and skeletal muscle biopsy revealed myopathic changes with core-like structures. Whole exome sequencing of this index patient lead to the discovery of a novel genetically defined CM subtype based on bi-allelic mutations in the uncoordinated mutant number-45 myosin chaperone B (UNC45B) NM_173167:c.2261G?>?A, p.Arg754Gln. The mutation is conserved in evolution and co-segregates within the pedigree with the phenotype, and located in the myosin binding armadillo repeat domain 3 (ARM3), and has a CADD Score of 35. On a multimeric level, UNC45B aggregates to a chain which serves as an assembly line and functions as a "template" defining the geometry, regularity, and periodicity of myosin arranged into muscle thick filaments. Our discovery is in line with the previously described myopathological phenotypes in C. elegans and in vertebrate mutants and knockdown-models. In conclusion, we here report for the first time a patient with an UNC45B mutation causing a novel genetically defined congenital myopathy disease entity.

SUBMITTER: Dafsari HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6921565 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bi-allelic mutations in uncoordinated mutant number-45 myosin chaperone B are a cause for congenital myopathy.

Dafsari Hormos Salimi HS   Kocaturk Nur Mehpare NM   Daimagüler Hülya-Sevcan HS   Brunn Anna A   Dötsch Jörg J   Weis Joachim J   Deckert Martina M   Cirak Sebahattin S  

Acta neuropathologica communications 20191218 1


Congenital myopathies (CM) form a genetically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by perinatal muscle weakness. Here, we report an 11-year old male offspring of consanguineous parents of Lebanese origin. He presented with proximal weakness including Gower's sign, and skeletal muscle biopsy revealed myopathic changes with core-like structures. Whole exome sequencing of this index patient lead to the discovery of a novel genetically defined CM subtype based on bi-allelic mutations in th  ...[more]

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