Mutations in SLC12A5 in epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures.
Mutations in SLC12A5 in epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures.
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DOI:
10.1038/ncomms9038
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发表时间:
2015-09-03
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Kurian MA
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作者:
Stödberg T;McTague A;Ruiz AJ;Hirata H;Zhen J;Long P;Farabella I;Meyer E;Kawahara A;Vassallo G;Stivaros SM;Bjursell MK;Stranneheim H;Tigerschiöld S;Persson B;Bangash I;Das K;Hughes D;Lesko N;Lundeberg J;Scott RC;Poduri A;Scheffer IE;Smith H;Gissen P;Schorge S;Reith ME;Topf M;Kullmann DM;Harvey RJ;Wedell A;Kurian MA
The potassium-chloride co-transporter KCC2, encoded by SLC12A5, plays a fundamental role in fast synaptic inhibition by maintaining a hyperpolarizing gradient for chloride ions. KCC2 dysfunction has been implicated in human epilepsy, but to date, no monogenic KCC2-related epilepsy disorders have been described. Here we show recessive loss-of-function SLC12A5 mutations in patients with a severe infantile-onset pharmacoresistant epilepsy syndrome, epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures (EIMFS). Decreased KCC2 surface expression, reduced protein glycosylation and impaired chloride extrusion contribute to loss of KCC2 activity, thereby impairing normal synaptic inhibition and promoting neuronal excitability in this early-onset epileptic encephalopathy. The potassium-chloride co-transporter, KCC2 is an essential component in maintaining a gradient for chloride ions in neurons. Here Stodberg and colleagues identify loss-of-function mutations in the encoding gene SLC12A5, which impair normal synaptic function associated with early-onset epilepsy.