Skeletal dysplasia in a consanguineous clan from the island of Nias/Indonesia is caused by a novel mutation in B3GAT3

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Title:	Skeletal dysplasia in a consanguineous clan from the island of Nias/Indonesia is caused by a novel mutation in B3GAT3
Creators Name:	Budde, B.S., Mizumoto, S., Kogawa, R., Becker, C., Altmüller, J., Thiele, H., Rueschendorf, F., Toliat, M.R., Kaleschke, G., Haemmerle, J.M., Hoehne, W., Sugahara, K., Nuernberg, P. and Kennerknecht, I.
Abstract:	We describe a large family with disproportionate short stature and bone dysplasia from Nias in which we observed differences in severity when comparing the phenotypes of affected individuals from two remote branches. We conducted a linkage scan in the more severely affected family branch and determined a critical interval of 4.7 cM on chromosome 11. Sequencing of the primary candidate gene TBX10 did not reveal a disease-causing variant. When performing whole exome sequencing we noticed a homozygous missense variant in B3GAT3, c.419C>T [p.(Pro140Leu)]. B3GAT3 encodes beta-1,3-glucuronyltransferase-I (GlcAT-I). GlcAT-I catalyzes an initial step of proteoglycan synthesis and the mutation p. (Pro140Leu) lies within the donor substrate-binding subdomain of the catalytic domain. In contrast to the previously published mutation in B3GAT3, c.830G>A [p.(Arg277Gln)], no heart phenotype could be detected in our family. Functional studies revealed a markedly reduced GlcAT-I activity in lymphoblastoid cells from patients when compared to matched controls. Moreover, relative numbers of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) side chains were decreased in patient cells. We found that Pro140Leu-mutant GlcAT-I cannot efficiently transfer GlcA to the linker region trisaccharide. This failure results in a partial deficiency of both chondroitin sulfate and heparan sulfate chains. Since the phenotype of the Nias patients differs from the Larsen-like syndrome described for patients with mutation p. (Arg277Gln), we suggest mutation B3GAT3:p.(Pro140Leu) to cause a different type of GAG linkeropathy showing no involvement of the heart.
Keywords:	Amino Acid Substitution, Developmental Bone Diseases, Glucuronosyltransferase, Inborn Genetic Diseases, Missense Mutation, Pedigree, Tertiary Protein Structure
Source:	Human Genetics
ISSN:	0340-6717
Publisher:	Springer
Volume:	134
Number:	7
Page Range:	691-704
Date:	July 2015
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-015-1549-2
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