Journal
HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 118, Issue 1, Pages 99-106Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-005-0024-x
Keywords
eIF2B; leukodystrophy; CACH/VWM syndrome; stress; ATF4; translation
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK47119, DK15658] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [ES08681] Funding Source: Medline
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Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (CACH), also called vanishing white matter (VWM) leukoencephalopathy, is a fatal genetic disease caused by mutations in eukaryotic initiation factor 2B (eIF2B) genes. The five subunits eIF2B factor is critical for translation initiation under normal conditions and regulates protein synthesis in response to cellular stresses. Primary fibroblasts from CACH/VWM patients and normal individuals were used to measure basal eIF2B activity as well as global protein synthesis and ATF4 induction in response to stress in the endoplasmic reticulum. We show that although the cells expressing mutant eIF2B genes respond normally to stress conditions by reduced global translation rates, they exhibit significantly greater increase in ATF4 induction compared to normal controls despite equal levels of stress and activity of the upstream eIF2 alpha kinase. This heightened stress response observed in primary fibroblasts that suffer from minor loss of basal eIF2B activity may be employed as an initial screening tool for CACH/VWM leukodystrophy.
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