Defective DNA Polymerase α-Primase Leads to X-Linked Intellectual Disability Associated with Severe Growth Retardation, Microcephaly, and Hypogonadism.
Defective DNA Polymerase α-Primase Leads to X-Linked Intellectual Disability Associated with Severe Growth Retardation, Microcephaly, and Hypogonadism.
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有缺陷的 DNA 聚合酶 α-引物酶会导致与严重生长迟缓、小头畸形和性腺功能减退症相关的 X 连锁智力障碍。
DOI:
10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.03.006
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Jaeken,Jacqu
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作者:
VanEsch,Hilde;Colnaghi,Rita;Freson,Kathleen;Starokadomskyy,Petro;Zankl,Andreas;Backx,Liesbeth;Abramowicz,Iga;Outwin,Emily;Rohena,Luis;Faulkner,Claire;Leong,GaryM;Newbury-Ecob,RuthA;Challis,RachelC;Õunap,Katrin;Jaeken,Jacqu
Replicating the human genome efficiently and accurately is a daunting challenge involving the duplication of upward of three billion base pairs. At the core of the complex machinery that achieves this task are three members of the B family of DNA polymerases: DNA polymerases α, δ, and ε. Collectively these multimeric polymerases ensure DNA replication proceeds at optimal rates approaching 2 × 103nucleotides/min with an error rate of less than one per million nucleotides polymerized. The majority of DNA replication of undamaged DNA is conducted by DNA polymerases δ and ε. The DNA polymerase α-primase complex performs limited synthesis to initiate the replication process, along with Okazaki-fragment synthesis on the discontinuous lagging strand. An increasing number of human disorders caused by defects in different components of the DNA-replication apparatus have been described to date. These are clinically diverse and involve a wide range of features, including variable combinations of growth delay, immunodeficiency, endocrine insufficiencies, lipodystrophy, and cancer predisposition. Here, by using various complementary approaches, including classical linkage analysis, targeted next-generation sequencing, and whole-exome sequencing, we describe distinct missense and splice-impacting mutations inPOLA1in five unrelated families presenting with an X-linked syndrome involving intellectual disability, proportionate short stature, microcephaly, and hypogonadism.POLA1encodes the p180 catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase α-primase. A range of replicative impairments could be demonstrated in lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from affected individuals. Our findings describe the presentation of pathogenic mutations in a catalytic component of a B family DNA polymerase member, DNA polymerase α.