• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Recessive mutations in muscle-specific isoforms of FXR1 cause congenital multi-minicore myopathy
  • Beteiligte: Estañ, María Cristina; Fernández-Núñez, Elisa; Zaki, Maha S.; Esteban, María Isabel; Donkervoort, Sandra; Hawkins, Cynthia; Caparros-Martin, José A.; Saade, Dimah; Hu, Ying; Bolduc, Véronique; Chao, Katherine Ru-Yui; Nevado, Julián; Lamuedra, Ana; Largo, Raquel; Herrero-Beaumont, Gabriel; Regadera, Javier; Hernandez-Chico, Concepción; Tizzano, Eduardo F.; Martinez-Glez, Victor; Carvajal, Jaime J.; Zong, Ruiting; Nelson, David L.; Otaify, Ghada A.; Temtamy, Samia; [...]
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019
  • Erschienen in: Nature Communications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08548-9
  • ISSN: 2041-1723
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>FXR1</jats:italic> is an alternatively spliced gene that encodes RNA binding proteins (FXR1P) involved in muscle development. In contrast to other tissues, cardiac and skeletal muscle express two FXR1P isoforms that incorporate an additional exon-15. We report that recessive mutations in this particular exon of <jats:italic>FXR1</jats:italic> cause congenital multi-minicore myopathy in humans and mice. Additionally, we show that while <jats:italic>Myf5</jats:italic>-dependent depletion of all FXR1P isoforms is neonatal lethal, mice carrying mutations in exon-15 display non-lethal myopathies which vary in severity depending on the specific effect of each mutation on the protein.</jats:p>
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