uAUG creating variants in the 5'UTR of ENG causing Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia.


Journal

NPJ genomic medicine
ISSN: 2056-7944
Titre abrégé: NPJ Genom Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101685193

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
17 Oct 2023
Historique:
received: 27 02 2023
accepted: 03 10 2023
medline: 18 10 2023
pubmed: 18 10 2023
entrez: 17 10 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare, autosomal dominant, vascular disorder. About 80% of cases are caused by pathogenic variants in ACVRL1 (also known as ALK1) and ENG, with the remaining cases being unexplained. We identified two variants, c.-79C>T and c.-68G>A, in the 5'UTR of ENG in two unrelated patients. They create upstream AUGs at the origin of upstream overlapping open reading frames (uoORFs) ending at the same stop codon. To assess the pathogenicity of these variants, we performed functional assays based on the expression of wild-type and mutant constructs in human cells and evaluated their effect on ALK1 activity in a BMP-response element assay. This assay is mandatory for molecular diagnosis and has been so far only applied to coding ENG variants. These variants were associated with a decrease of protein levels in HeLa and HUVEC cells and a decreased ability to activate ALK1. We applied the same experiments on three additional uoORF-creating variants (c.-142A>T, c.-127C>T and c.-10C>T) located in the 5'UTR of ENG and previously reported in HHT patients. We found that all the analyzed variants alter protein levels and function. Additional experiments relying on an artificial deletion in our mutated constructs show that identified uAUGs could initiate the translation indicating that the associated effect is translation-dependent. Overall, we have identified two 5'UTR ENG variations in HHT patients and shed new light on the role of upstream ORFs on ENG regulation. Our findings contribute to the amelioration of molecular diagnosis in HHT.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37848456
doi: 10.1038/s41525-023-00378-5
pii: 10.1038/s41525-023-00378-5
pmc: PMC10582052
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

32

Subventions

Organisme : Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency)
ID : ANR-10-LABX-0013

Informations de copyright

© 2023. Springer Nature Limited and Centre of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University.

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Auteurs

Omar Soukarieh (O)

Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219, F-33000, Bordeaux, France. omar.soukarieh@inserm.fr.
Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, BMC, U1034, F-33600, Pessac, France. omar.soukarieh@inserm.fr.

Emmanuelle Tillet (E)

INSERM UMR U1292, Laboratoire BIOSANTE, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CEA, Grenoble, France.

Carole Proust (C)

Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219, F-33000, Bordeaux, France.

Charlène Dupont (C)

Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219, F-33000, Bordeaux, France.

Béatrice Jaspard-Vinassa (B)

Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, BMC, U1034, F-33600, Pessac, France.

Florent Soubrier (F)

Département de Génétique, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
Sorbonne Université, INSERM, UMR_S 1166, Institute of Cardiometabolism And Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France.

Aurélie Goyenvalle (A)

Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Inserm, END-ICAP, Versailles, France.

Mélanie Eyries (M)

Département de Génétique, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
Sorbonne Université, INSERM, UMR_S 1166, Institute of Cardiometabolism And Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France.

David-Alexandre Trégouët (DA)

Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219, F-33000, Bordeaux, France.

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