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    Novel Missense Mutation A789V in IQSEC2 underlies X-Linked intellectual disability in the MRX78 family

    Kalscheuer, V.M. and James, V.M. and Himelright, M.L. and Long, P. and Oegema, R. and Jensen, C. and Bienek, M. and Hu, H. and Haas, S.A. and Topf, Maya and Hoogeboom, A.J.M. and Harvey, K. and Walikonis, R. and Harvey, R.J. (2016) Novel Missense Mutation A789V in IQSEC2 underlies X-Linked intellectual disability in the MRX78 family. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 8 , ISSN 1662-5099.

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    Abstract

    Disease gene discovery in neurodevelopmental disorders, including X-linked intellectual disability (XLID) has recently been accelerated by next-generation DNA sequencing approaches. To date, more than 100 human X chromosome genes involved in neuronal signaling pathways and networks implicated in cognitive function have been identified. Despite these advances, the mutations underlying disease in a large number of XLID families remained unresolved. We report the resolution of MRX78, a large family with six affected males and seven affected females, showing X-linked inheritance. Although a previous linkage study had mapped the locus to the short arm of chromosome X (Xp11.4-p11.23), this region contained too many candidate genes to be analyzed using conventional approaches. However, our X-chromosome exome resequencing, bioinformatics analysis and inheritance testing revealed a missense mutation (c.C2366T, p.A789V) in IQSEC2, encoding a neuronal GDP-GTP exchange factor for Arf family GTPases (ArfGEF) previously implicated in XLID. Molecular modeling of IQSEC2 revealed that the A789V substitution results in the insertion of a larger side-chain into a hydrophobic pocket in the catalytic Sec7 domain of IQSEC2. The A789V change is predicted to result in numerous clashes with adjacent amino acids and disruption of local folding of the Sec7 domain. Consistent with this finding, functional assays revealed that recombinant IQSEC2A789V was not able to catalyze GDP-GTP exchange on Arf6 as efficiently as wild-type IQSEC2. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that the A789V mutation in IQSEC2 is the underlying cause of XLID in the MRX78 family.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): ArfGEF, BRAG1, IQ-ArfGEF, IQSEC2, MRX78, XLID
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Bioinformatics, Bloomsbury Centre for (Closed), Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of (ISMB)
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2016 14:42
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:22
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14542

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