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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00398
Keywords
MMP20; mutations; amelogenesis imperfecta; evolution; phenotype
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- French Ministry of Health (National Program for Clinical Research), PHRC [14266]
- EU [A27]
- RMT-TMO Offensive Sciences initiative
- INTERREG V RARENET program [ANR-10-LABX-0030-INRT]
- University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS) as part of a USIAS Fellowship
- INTERREG IV Upper Rhine program
- French State fund under programme Investissements d'Avenir [ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02]
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Amelogenesis imperfecta (Al) designates a group of genetic diseases characterized by a large range of enamel disorders causing important social and health problems. These defects can result from mutations in enamel matrix proteins or protease encoding genes. A range of mutations in the enamel cleavage enzyme matrix metalloproteinase-20 gene (MMP20) produce enamel defects of varying severity. To address how various alterations produce a range of Al phenotypes, we performed a targeted analysis to find MMP20 mutations in French patients diagnosed with non-syndromic Al. Genomic DNA was isolated from saliva and MMP20 exons and exon-intron boundaries sequenced. We identified several homozygous or heterozygous mutations, putatively involved in the Al phenotypes. To validate missense mutations and predict sensitive positions in the MMP20 sequence, we evolutionarily compared 75 sequences extracted from the public databases using the Datamonkey webserver. These sequences were representative of mammalian lineages, covering more than 150 million years of evolution. This analysis allowed us to find 324 sensitive positions (out of the 483 MMP20 residues), pinpoint functionally important domains, and build an evolutionary chart of important conserved MMP20 regions. This is an efficient tool to identify new- and previously-identified mutations. We thus identified six functional MMP20 mutations in unrelated families, finding two novel mutated sites. The genotypes and phenotypes of these six mutations are described and compared. To date, 13 MMP20 mutations causing Al have been reported, making these genotypes and associated hypomature enamel phenotypes the most frequent in Al.
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