1. Expanding the mutational landscape and clinical phenotype of the YIF1B related brain disorder
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Ibrahim H. Kaya, Mehran Beiraghi Toosi, Peter Bauer, Farah Ashrafzadeh, Najmeh Ahangari, Stefan T. Arold, Aida M. Bertoli-Avella, Antonina Wojcik, Mohammad A. Al-Muhaizea, Kelly J. Cardona-Londoño, Meisam Babaei, Amber Begtrup, Nouriya Al-Sannaa, Dilek Colak, Elisa Cali, Ehsan Ghayoor Karimiani, Marian Y. Girgis, Obdulia Sanchez‐Lijarcio, Namik Kaya, Chin-To Fong, Marcelo Vargas, Shima Imannezhad, Tahsin Stefan Barakat, David Murphy, Audrey Schroeder, Paria Najarzadeh Torbati, Henry Houlden, Anita Nikoncuk, Kristina Lanko, Belén Pérez, Salvador Ibáñez-Mico, Reza Maroofian, Mohammad Doosti, Tainá Regina Damaceno Silveira, Ruizhi Deng, Eva Medico Salsench, and Clinical Genetics
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Male ,Mice, Knockout ,AcademicSubjects/SCI01870 ,Vesicular Transport Proteins ,Library science ,Golgi Apparatus ,Scholarship ,Mice ,Human disease ,Neurodevelopmental Disorders ,Political science ,Mutation ,Animals ,Humans ,AcademicSubjects/MED00310 ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Cilia ,Clinical phenotype ,Erasmus+ ,Letter to the Editor ,Disability research ,Cells, Cultured - Abstract
Human post-natal neurodevelopmental delay is often associated with cerebral alterations that can lead, by themselves or associated with peripheral deficits, to premature death. Here, we report the clinical features of 10 patients from six independent families with mutations in the autosomal YIF1B gene encoding a ubiquitous protein involved in anterograde traffic from the endoplasmic reticulum to the cell membrane, and in Golgi apparatus morphology. The patients displayed global developmental delay, motor delay, visual deficits with brain MRI evidence of ventricle enlargement, myelination alterations and cerebellar atrophy. A similar profile was observed in the Yif1b knockout (KO) mouse model developed to identify the cellular alterations involved in the clinical defects. In the CNS, mice lacking Yif1b displayed neuronal reduction, altered myelination of the motor cortex, cerebellar atrophy, enlargement of the ventricles, and subcellular alterations of endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus compartments. Remarkably, although YIF1B was not detected in primary cilia, biallelic YIF1B mutations caused primary cilia abnormalities in skin fibroblasts from both patients and Yif1b-KO mice, and in ciliary architectural components in the Yif1b-KO brain. Consequently, our findings identify YIF1B as an essential gene in early post-natal development in human, and provide a new genetic target that should be tested in patients developing a neurodevelopmental delay during the first year of life. Thus, our work is the first description of a functional deficit linking Golgipathies and ciliopathies, diseases so far associated exclusively to mutations in genes coding for proteins expressed within the primary cilium or related ultrastructures. We therefore propose that these pathologies should be considered as belonging to a larger class of neurodevelopmental diseases depending on proteins involved in the trafficking of proteins towards specific cell membrane compartments.
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- 2021