期刊
HUMAN MUTATION
卷 42, 期 1, 页码 66-76出版社
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1002/humu.24130
关键词
autistic features; CELF2; de novo variant; developmental and epileptic encephalopathy; hypotonia
资金
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [JP20dm0107090, JP20dm0107133, JP20dm0307028, JP20ek0109280, JP20ek0109301, JP20ek0109348, JP20ek0109381, JP20km0405214, JPkk0205012]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP17H01539, JP19H06321, JP19K16921, JP19K17307, JP19K17865, JP20K07907, JP20K08164, JP20K16932, JP20K17428, JP20K17936]
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare [30-6, 30-7]
- Takeda Science Foundation
In this study, heterozygous CELF2 variants were identified in five unrelated individuals, resulting in developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) in four individuals and intellectual disability with autistic features in one individual. The variants were mainly de novo, except for one inherited from a mosaic mother. These variants likely disrupt the nuclear localization of the CELF2 protein, leading to the associated DEE phenotype.
We report heterozygous CELF2 (NM_006561.3) variants in five unrelated individuals: Individuals 1-4 exhibited developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) and Individual 5 had intellectual disability and autistic features. CELF2 encodes a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling RNA-binding protein that has multiple roles in RNA processing and is involved in the embryonic development of the central nervous system and heart. Whole-exome sequencing identified the following CELF2 variants: two missense variants [c.1558C>T:p.(Pro520Ser) in unrelated Individuals 1 and 2, and c.1516C>G:p.(Arg506Gly) in Individual 3], one frameshift variant in Individual 4 that removed the last amino acid of CELF2 c.1562dup:p.(Tyr521Ter), possibly resulting in escape from nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), and one canonical splice site variant, c.272-1G>C in Individual 5, also probably leading to NMD. The identified variants in Individuals 1, 2, 4, and 5 were de novo, while the variant in Individual 3 was inherited from her mosaic mother. Notably, all identified variants, except for c.272-1G>C, were clustered within 20 amino acid residues of the C-terminus, which might be a nuclear localization signal. We demonstrated the extranuclear mislocalization of mutant CELF2 protein in cells transfected with mutant CELF2 complementary DNA plasmids. Our findings indicate that CELF2 variants that disrupt its nuclear localization are associated with DEE.
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