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EBIOMEDICINE
卷 42, 期 -, 页码 524-531出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.03.075
关键词
Exon skipping; Female infertility; MEIOB; Meiotic recombination; Primary ovarian insufficiency
资金
- Universite Paris Diderot
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (Labelisation Equipes) [DEQ20150331757]
- Fondation ARC pour la recherche contre le cancer
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
- Institut Universitaire de France
Background: Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI), a major cause of infertility, affects about 1-3% of women under forty years of age. Although there is a growing list of causal genetic alterations, POI remains mostly idiopathic. Methods: We performed exome sequencing (WES) of two sisters affected with POI, one unaffected sister and their mother from a consanguineous family. We assessed the impact of the identified MEIOB variant with a minigene assay and by sequencing illegitimate transcripts from the proband's leukocytes. We studied its functional impact on the interaction between MEIOB with its partner SPATA22 and their localization to DNA double-strand breaks (DSB). Findings: We identified a homozygous variant in the last base -of exon 12 of MEIOB, which encodes a factor essential for meiotic recombination. This variant was predicted to strongly affect MEIOB pre-mRNA splicing. Consistently, a minigene assay showed that the variant induced exon 12 skipping, which was confirmed in vivo in the proband's leukocytes. Aberrant splicing leads to the production of a C-terminally truncated protein that cannot interact with SPATA22, abolishing their recruitment to DSBs. Interpretation: This truncating MEIOB variant is expected to provoke meiotic defects and a depleted follicular stock, as in Meiob(-/-) mice. This is the first molecular defect reported in a meiosis-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) responsible for POI. We hypothesise that alterations in other SSB proteins could explain cases of syndromic or isolated ovarian insufficiency. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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