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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-22
pubmed:abstractText
We describe a consanguineous Iraqi family in which affected siblings had mild mental retardation and congenital ataxia characterized by quadrupedal gait. Genome-wide linkage analysis identified a 5.8 Mb interval on chromosome 8q with shared homozygosity among the affected persons. Sequencing of genes contained in the interval revealed a homozygous mutation, S100P, in carbonic anhydrase related protein 8 (CA8), which is highly expressed in cerebellar Purkinje cells and influences inositol triphosphate (ITP) binding to its receptor ITPR1 on the endoplasmatic reticulum and thereby modulates calcium signaling. We demonstrate that the mutation S100P is associated with proteasome-mediated degradation, and thus presumably represents a null mutation comparable to the Ca8 mutation underlying the previously described waddles mouse, which exhibits ataxia and appendicular dystonia. CA8 thus represents the third locus that has been associated with quadrupedal gait in humans, in addition to the VLDLR locus and a locus at chromosome 17p. Our findings underline the importance of ITP-mediated signaling in cerebellar function and provide suggestive evidence that congenital ataxia paired with cerebral dysfunction may, together with unknown contextual factors during development, predispose to quadrupedal gait in humans.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1553-7404
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
e1000487
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Ataxia, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Cerebellar Ataxia, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Consanguinity, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Enzyme Stability, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Gait Ataxia, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Gait Disorders, Neurologic, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Homozygote, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Intellectual Disability, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Iraq, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Mutation, Missense, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:19461874-Tumor Markers, Biological
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
CA8 mutations cause a novel syndrome characterized by ataxia and mild mental retardation with predisposition to quadrupedal gait.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article