Journal
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Volume 24, Issue 10, Pages 2771-2783Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv038
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- Institut National pour la Sante et la Recherche Medicale (Inserm)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Universite Paris 7, DHU PROTECT
- French National Research Agency [ANR-09-GENO-007]
- Roger de Spoelberch Foundation
- Inserm Transfer program
- Inserm
- ANR [ANR-09-GENO-007]
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Dymeclin is a Golgi-associated protein whose deficiency causes Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome (DMC, MIM #223800), a rare recessively inherited spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia consistently associated with postnatal microcephaly and intellectual disability. While the skeletal phenotype of DMC patients has been extensively described, very little is known about their cerebral anomalies, which result in brain growth defects and cognitive dysfunction. We used Dymeclin-deficient mice to determine the cause of microcephaly and to identify defective mechanisms at the cellular level. Brain weight and volume were reduced in all mutant mice from postnatal day 5 onward. Mutant mice displayed a narrowing of the frontal cortex, although cortical layers were normally organized. Interestingly, the corpus callosum was markedly thinner, a characteristic we also identified in DMC patients. Consistent with this, the myelin sheath was thinner, less compact and not properly rolled, while the number of mature oligodendrocytes and their ability to produce myelin basic protein were significantly decreased. Finally, cortical neurons from mutant mice and primary fibroblasts from DMC patients displayed substantially delayed endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi trafficking, which could be fully rescued upon Dymeclin re-expression. These findings indicate that Dymeclin is crucial for proper myelination and anterograde neuronal trafficking, two processes that are highly active during postnatal brain maturation.
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