Mahjoub Ghazale, Faghihi Mohammad Ali, Taghdiri Maryam
Persian BayanGene Research and Training Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Center for Therapeutic Innovation, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA.
Intractable Rare Dis Res. 2020 May;9(2):104-108. doi: 10.5582/irdr.2020.03013.
Dystroglycan (DG) is a major cell membrane glycoprotein, which is encoded by the gene. α-DG is one of DG subunits, belongs to O-mannosylated protein of mammals and was identified in brain, peripheral nerves and muscle. Dystroglycanopathies are a group of heterogeneous congenital muscular dystrophies, which can result from defective α-DG mannosylation. First line of α-DG glycosylation is catalyzed by protein O-mannosyltransferase family (PMT). In this study, the mutation was identified in the gene, which encodes O-mannosyltransferase 2 protein and its mutations can be contributed to dystroglycanopathies. A very rare missense mutation in the gene (NM_013382: exon9: c. 1106G>A) was identified by next generation sequencing (NGS) and was subsequently confirmed using Sanger sequencing in both affected siblings. There was no report of this mutation in the literature, therefore, the significance was uncertain. Our findings confirmed the pathogenicity of mutation and expanded the mutation spectrum of , which will be helpful in further molecular evaluations of muscular diseases.
肌营养不良蛋白聚糖(DG)是一种主要的细胞膜糖蛋白,由该基因编码。α-DG是DG亚基之一,属于哺乳动物的O-甘露糖基化蛋白,在脑、外周神经和肌肉中被发现。肌营养不良蛋白聚糖病是一组异质性先天性肌营养不良症,可由α-DG甘露糖基化缺陷引起。α-DG糖基化的第一步由蛋白质O-甘露糖基转移酶家族(PMT)催化。在本研究中,在编码O-甘露糖基转移酶2蛋白的基因中鉴定出突变,其突变可能导致肌营养不良蛋白聚糖病。通过下一代测序(NGS)在该基因(NM_013382:外显子9:c.1106G>A)中鉴定出一个非常罕见的错义突变,随后在两名患病同胞中使用桑格测序法进行了确认。文献中没有关于该突变的报道,因此其意义尚不确定。我们的研究结果证实了该突变的致病性,并扩大了该基因的突变谱,这将有助于对肌肉疾病进行进一步的分子评估。