Journal
MOLECULAR GENETICS & GENOMIC MEDICINE
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.1451
Keywords
exon skipping; Niemann-Pick type C; NPC1; RNA-seq; silent variant; unfolded protein response
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- NORTE2020 [NORTE-01-0246FEDER-000014 DESVENDAR]
- FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia-MCTES, Portugal) [PTDC/BBB-BMD/6301/2014, UIDB/00211/2020]
- FCT [SFRH/BPD/101965/2014, SFRH/BD/124372/2016]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/124372/2016, PTDC/BBB-BMD/6301/2014, UIDB/00211/2020] Funding Source: FCT
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Background: Niemann-Pick type C (NPC, MIM #257220) is a neuro-visceral disease, caused predominantly by pathogenic variants in theNPC1gene. Here we studied patients with clinical diagnosis of NPC but inconclusive results regarding the molecular analysis. Methods: We used a Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)-panel followed by cDNA analysis. Latter, we used massively parallel single-cell RNA-seq (MARS-Seq) to address gene profiling changes and finally the effect of different variants on the protein and cellular levels. Results: We identified novel variants and cDNA analysis allowed us to establish the functional effect of a silent variant, previously reported as a polymorphism. We demonstrated that this variant induces the skipping of exon 11 leading to a premature stop codon and identified it in NPC patients from two unrelated families. MARS-Seq analysis showed that a number of upregulated genes were related to the unfolded protein response (UPR) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in one specific patient. Also, for all analyzed variants, the NPC1 protein was partially retained in the ER. Conclusion: We showed that theNPC1silent polymorphism (p.V562V) is a disease-causing variant in NPC and that the UPR is upregulated in an NPC patient.
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