By studying molecular mechanisms of human disease-causing missense mutations within <i>a</i> subunit isoforms, we may identify domains critical for V-ATPase targeting, activity and/or regulation. cDNA-encoded FLAG-tagged human wildtype ATP6V0A2 (<i>a</i>2) and ATP6V0A4 (<i>a</i>4) subunits and their mutants, <i>a</i>2<sup>P405L</sup> (causing cutis laxa), and <i>a</i>4<sup>R449H</sup> and <i>a</i>4<sup>G820R</sup> (causing renal tubular acidosis, dRTA), were transiently expressed in HEK 293 cells.
These proteins included several important ECM components, periostin (POSTN), elastin (ELN), and decorin (DCN); genetic mutations in these proteins are associated with different phenotypes of aging, such as cutis laxa and joint and dermal manifestations.
These proteins included several important ECM components, periostin (POSTN), elastin (ELN), and decorin (DCN); genetic mutations in these proteins are associated with different phenotypes of aging, such as cutis laxa and joint and dermal manifestations.
By studying molecular mechanisms of human disease-causing missense mutations within <i>a</i> subunit isoforms, we may identify domains critical for V-ATPase targeting, activity and/or regulation. cDNA-encoded FLAG-tagged human wildtype ATP6V0A2 (<i>a</i>2) and ATP6V0A4 (<i>a</i>4) subunits and their mutants, <i>a</i>2<sup>P405L</sup> (causing cutis laxa), and <i>a</i>4<sup>R449H</sup> and <i>a</i>4<sup>G820R</sup> (causing renal tubular acidosis, dRTA), were transiently expressed in HEK 293 cells.
<b>Conclusion:</b> Our findings indicate that L848P is novel a gain-of-function mutation that leads to PLCγ2 activation and suggest cutis laxa as a possible clinical manifestations of the APLAID syndrome.
Here, we further expand the list of inborn errors of metabolism associated with cutis laxa by describing the clinical presentation of a 17-month-old girl with Leigh-like syndrome due to enoyl coenzyme A hydratase, short chain, 1, mitochondria (ECHS1) deficiency, a mitochondrial matrix enzyme that catalyzes the second step of the beta-oxidation spiral of fatty acids and plays an important role in amino acid catabolism, particularly valine.
Finally, we also describe a distinct novel clinical syndrome of cutis laxa and marked facial features and propose ATP6V1E1 and ATP6V0D2 (two subunits of vacuolar ATPase) as likely candidate genes based on whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing of the two families with this new clinical entity.
Finally, we also describe a distinct novel clinical syndrome of cutis laxa and marked facial features and propose ATP6V1E1 and ATP6V0D2 (two subunits of vacuolar ATPase) as likely candidate genes based on whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing of the two families with this new clinical entity.
Some of these conditions, including PMM2-CDG, frequently present with recognizable skin abnormalities such as abnormal fat distribution, skin wrinkling, or peau d'orange, whereas others, such as COG7-CDG and ATP6V0A2-CDG, have been described in association with cutis laxa: wrinkled, inelastic, and sagging skin.
The results identified structural differences for the disease-causing cutis laxa mutants and for one AMD variant (G412E), suggesting that this may also be pathogenic.
The results identified structural differences for the disease-causing cutis laxa mutants and for one AMD variant (G412E), suggesting that this may also be pathogenic.
In vitro studies using macrophages isolated from either WT/MT1-MMP-/- chimeric mice, MMP-2-null mice, or MMP-9-null mice demonstrate that MT1-MMP alone plays a dominant role in macrophage-mediated elastolysis.
To investigate MMP-12 function in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis, we investigated macrophage migration and elastolysis in relation to fatty streaks in human MMP-12 transgenic (hMMP-12 Tg) rabbits.
We recently observed an Italian boy with typical KMS associated with cutis laxa, which, to our knowledge, is an uncommon finding in KMS, never reported in more than 350 KMS cases previously described in the literature.
We recently observed an Italian boy with typical KMS associated with cutis laxa, which, to our knowledge, is an uncommon finding in KMS, never reported in more than 350 KMS cases previously described in the literature.
We recently observed an Italian boy with typical KMS associated with cutis laxa, which, to our knowledge, is an uncommon finding in KMS, never reported in more than 350 KMS cases previously described in the literature.
Molecular study of the fibulin-5 (FBLN5) gene in a large consanguineous Turkish family with four patients affected by AR cutis laxa type I demonstrated the presence of a homozygous missense mutation (T998C) in the FBLN5 gene resulting in a serine-to-proline (S227P) substitution in the fourth calcium-binding epidermal growth factor-like domain of fibulin-5 protein.
These results suggest that increased gene expression levels of MMP-1, MMP-3 and MMP-9 in CL fibroblasts may contribute to the histopathological abnormality in CL.
These results suggest that increased gene expression levels of MMP-1, MMP-3 and MMP-9 in CL fibroblasts may contribute to the histopathological abnormality in CL.
Experiments of transient transfection of deleted or small substituted collagenase promoter-CAT constructs indicated that collagenase transcription in CL fibroblasts was activated the TPA-responsive element site of the collagenase promoter gene.