Journal
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages 1537-1546Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa078
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- National Institutes of Health Office [R24OD022005]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R01GM067858]
- Hunan Provincial Major Science and Technology [2019SK1010]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81801136]
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The actin cytoskeleton is regulated by many proteins including capping proteins that stabilize actin filaments (F-actin) by inhibiting actin polymerization and depolymerization. Here, we report two pediatric probands who carry damaging heterozygous de novo mutations in CAPZA2 (HGNC: 1490) and exhibit neurological symptoms with shared phenotypes including global motor development delay, speech delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia and a history of seizures. CAPZA2 encodes a subunit of an F-actin-capping protein complex (CapZ). CapZ is an obligate heterodimer consisting of alpha and beta heterodimer conserved from yeast to human. Vertebrate genomes contain three a subunits encoded by three different genes and CAPZA2 encodes the alpha 2 subunit. The single orthologue of CAPZA genes in Drosophila is cpa. Loss of cpa leads to lethality in early development and expression of the human reference; CAPZA2 rescues this lethality. However, the two CAPZA2 variants identified in the probands rescue this lethality at lower efficiency than the reference. Moreover, expression of the CAPZA2 variants affects bristle morphogenesis, a process that requires extensive actin polymerization and bundling during development. Taken together, our findings suggest that variants in CAPZA2 lead to a non-syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder in children.
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