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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 17-25Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-018-1141-z
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Late-infantile MLD; ARSA gene; Arylsulfatase A
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- Ministry of the Higher Education and the Scientific Research in Tunisia
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Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive demyelination resulting from impaired degradation and thus the accumulation of cerebroside-3-sulfate (sulfatide). It is caused by the deficiency of arylsulfatase A (ARSA) enzyme which is encoded by the ARSA gene. The present study reports the clinical, molecular, and bioinformatic investigation of three patients belonging to a consanguineous family with late-infantile MLD disorder. The results revealed a novel homozygous missense mutation c.699C>A (p.His231Gln) in exon 4 of ARSA gene in the three patients inherited from their heterozygous parents. Interestingly, this novel mutation is the second mutation identified in the substrate-binding site of ARSA protein and it was classified as damaging and deleterious by several bioinformatics tools. The c.699C>A (p.His231Gln) leads to changes in the pre-mRNA secondary structure and in the ARSA protein 3D structure with a significant root mean square deviation value which could probably affect its stability and function.
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