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  1. Article ; Online: Phosphomevalonate kinase deficiency expands the genetic spectrum of systemic autoinflammatory diseases.

    Berner, Jakob / van de Wetering, Cheryl / Jimenez Heredia, Raul / Rashkova, Christina / Ferdinandusse, Sacha / Koster, Janet / Weiss, Johannes G / Frohne, Alexandra / Giuliani, Sarah / Waterham, Hans R / Castanon, Irinka / Brunner, Jürgen / Boztug, Kaan

    The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology

    2023  Volume 152, Issue 4, Page(s) 1025–1031.e2

    Abstract: Background: In the isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway, mevalonate is phosphorylated in 2 subsequent enzyme steps by MVK and PMVK to generate mevalonate pyrophosphate that is further metabolized to produce sterol and nonsterol isoprenoids. Biallelic ... ...

    Abstract Background: In the isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway, mevalonate is phosphorylated in 2 subsequent enzyme steps by MVK and PMVK to generate mevalonate pyrophosphate that is further metabolized to produce sterol and nonsterol isoprenoids. Biallelic pathogenic variants in MVK result in the autoinflammatory metabolic disorder MVK deficiency. So far, however, no patients with proven PMVK deficiency due to biallelic pathogenic variants in PMVK have been reported.
    Objectives: This study reports the first patient with functionally confirmed PMVK deficiency, including the clinical, biochemical, and immunological consequences of a homozygous missense variant in PMVK.
    Methods: The investigators performed whole-exome sequencing and functional studies in cells from a patient who, on clinical and immunological evaluation, was suspected of an autoinflammatory disease.
    Results: The investigators identified a homozygous PMVK p.Val131Ala (NM_006556.4: c.392T>C) missense variant in the index patient. Pathogenicity was supported by genetic algorithms and modeling analysis and confirmed in patient cells that revealed markedly reduced PMVK enzyme activity due to a virtually complete absence of PMVK protein. Clinically, the patient showed various similarities as well as distinct features compared to patients with MVK deficiency and responded well to therapeutic IL-1 inhibition.
    Conclusions: This study reported the first patient with proven PMVK deficiency due to a homozygous missense variant in PMVK, leading to an autoinflammatory disease. PMVK deficiency expands the genetic spectrum of systemic autoinflammatory diseases, characterized by recurrent fevers, arthritis, and cytopenia and thus should be included in the differential diagnosis and genetic testing for systemic autoinflammatory diseases.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 121011-7
    ISSN 1097-6825 ; 1085-8725 ; 0091-6749
    ISSN (online) 1097-6825 ; 1085-8725
    ISSN 0091-6749
    DOI 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.06.013
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  2. Article ; Online: A small cassette enables conditional gene inactivation by CRISPR/Cas9.

    Guzzardo, Paloma M / Rashkova, Christina / Dos Santos, Rodrigo L / Tehrani, Raha / Collin, Philippe / Bürckstümmer, Tilmann

    Scientific reports

    2017  Volume 7, Issue 1, Page(s) 16770

    Abstract: The availability of CRISPR/Cas9 technology has enabled the rapid establishment of gene knockouts in many cell types and even whole organisms. However, conditional inactivation of essential genes remains a challenge. We devised an approach named DECAI ( ... ...

    Abstract The availability of CRISPR/Cas9 technology has enabled the rapid establishment of gene knockouts in many cell types and even whole organisms. However, conditional inactivation of essential genes remains a challenge. We devised an approach named DECAI (DEgradation based on Cre-regulated- Artificial Intron). It utilizes a small cassette of just 201 nucleotides that is inserted into the coding exon of a target gene using CRISPR/Cas9 technology and homology-directed repair. As its sequence is derived from an artificial intron, the cassette is removed by the splicing machinery and thus leaves no trace in the "off-state". Upon activation with Cre recombinase ("on-state"), the intron is crippled and the target gene is disrupted by a series of stop codons. We exemplify the utility of this approach on several non-essential and essential human genes. Clones bearing the conditional knockout cassette are recovered at frequencies above 5% and cassette function can be traced at the genomic DNA and the mRNA level. Importantly, cassette activation leads to loss of gene expression as judged by flow cytometry, Western blot or immunofluorescence. Altogether, this highlights the broad utility of the approach for conditional gene inactivation and suggests that this tool could be used to study the loss-of-function phenotypes of essential genes.
    MeSH term(s) CRISPR-Associated Protein 9/metabolism ; CRISPR-Cas Systems ; Cell Line ; Codon, Terminator ; Exons ; Gene Editing/methods ; Gene Expression ; Gene Knockout Techniques ; Genes, Essential ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Integrases/metabolism ; Transduction, Genetic
    Chemical Substances Codon, Terminator ; Cre recombinase (EC 2.7.7.-) ; Integrases (EC 2.7.7.-) ; CRISPR-Associated Protein 9 (EC 3.1.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-12-01
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-16931-z
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  3. Article ; Online: Systemic Inflammation and Normocytic Anemia in DOCK11 Deficiency.

    Block, Jana / Rashkova, Christina / Castanon, Irinka / Zoghi, Samaneh / Platon, Jessica / Ardy, Rico C / Fujiwara, Mitsuhiro / Chaves, Beatriz / Schoppmeyer, Rouven / van der Made, Caspar I / Jimenez Heredia, Raul / Harms, Frederike L / Alavi, Samin / Alsina, Laia / Sanchez Moreno, Paula / Ávila Polo, Rainiero / Cabrera-Pérez, Rocío / Kostel Bal, Sevgi / Pfajfer, Laurène /
    Ransmayr, Bernhard / Mautner, Anna-Katharina / Kondo, Ryohei / Tinnacher, Anna / Caldera, Michael / Schuster, Michael / Domínguez Conde, Cecilia / Platzer, René / Salzer, Elisabeth / Boyer, Thomas / Brunner, Han G / Nooitgedagt-Frons, Judith E / Iglesias, Estíbaliz / Deyà-Martinez, Angela / Camacho-Lovillo, Marisol / Menche, Jörg / Bock, Christoph / Huppa, Johannes B / Pickl, Winfried F / Distel, Martin / Yoder, Jeffrey A / Traver, David / Engelhardt, Karin R / Linden, Tobias / Kager, Leo / Hannich, J Thomas / Hoischen, Alexander / Hambleton, Sophie / Illsinger, Sabine / Da Costa, Lydie / Kutsche, Kerstin / Chavoshzadeh, Zahra / van Buul, Jaap D / Antón, Jordi / Calzada-Hernández, Joan / Neth, Olaf / Viaud, Julien / Nishikimi, Akihiko / Dupré, Loïc / Boztug, Kaan

    The New England journal of medicine

    2023  Volume 389, Issue 6, Page(s) 527–539

    Abstract: Background: Increasing evidence links genetic defects affecting actin-regulatory proteins to diseases with severe autoimmunity and autoinflammation, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Dedicator of cytokinesis 11 (DOCK11) ... ...

    Abstract Background: Increasing evidence links genetic defects affecting actin-regulatory proteins to diseases with severe autoimmunity and autoinflammation, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Dedicator of cytokinesis 11 (DOCK11) activates the small Rho guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) cell division cycle 42 (CDC42), a central regulator of actin cytoskeleton dynamics. The role of DOCK11 in human immune-cell function and disease remains unknown.
    Methods: We conducted genetic, immunologic, and molecular assays in four patients from four unrelated families who presented with infections, early-onset severe immune dysregulation, normocytic anemia of variable severity associated with anisopoikilocytosis, and developmental delay. Functional assays were performed in patient-derived cells, as well as in mouse and zebrafish models.
    Results: We identified rare, X-linked germline mutations in
    Conclusions: Germline hemizygous loss-of-function mutations affecting the actin regulator DOCK11 were shown to cause a previously unknown inborn error of hematopoiesis and immunity characterized by severe immune dysregulation and systemic inflammation, recurrent infections, and anemia. (Funded by the European Research Council and others.).
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Humans ; Mice ; Actins/genetics ; Actins/metabolism ; Anemia/etiology ; Anemia/genetics ; Disease Models, Animal ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/deficiency ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/genetics ; Hematopoiesis ; Inflammation/etiology ; Inflammation/genetics ; Zebrafish/genetics ; Zebrafish/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Actins ; CDC42 protein, human (EC 3.6.5.2) ; Cdc42 protein, mouse ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 207154-x
    ISSN 1533-4406 ; 0028-4793
    ISSN (online) 1533-4406
    ISSN 0028-4793
    DOI 10.1056/NEJMoa2210054
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  4. Article ; Online: The cytoskeletal regulator HEM1 governs B cell development and prevents autoimmunity.

    Salzer, Elisabeth / Zoghi, Samaneh / Kiss, Máté G / Kage, Frieda / Rashkova, Christina / Stahnke, Stephanie / Haimel, Matthias / Platzer, René / Caldera, Michael / Ardy, Rico Chandra / Hoeger, Birgit / Block, Jana / Medgyesi, David / Sin, Celine / Shahkarami, Sepideh / Kain, Renate / Ziaee, Vahid / Hammerl, Peter / Bock, Christoph /
    Menche, Jörg / Dupré, Loïc / Huppa, Johannes B / Sixt, Michael / Lomakin, Alexis / Rottner, Klemens / Binder, Christoph J / Stradal, Theresia E B / Rezaei, Nima / Boztug, Kaan

    Science immunology

    2020  Volume 5, Issue 49

    Abstract: The WAVE regulatory complex (WRC) is crucial for assembly of the peripheral branched actin network constituting one of the main drivers of eukaryotic cell migration. Here, we uncover an essential role of the hematopoietic-specific WRC component HEM1 for ... ...

    Abstract The WAVE regulatory complex (WRC) is crucial for assembly of the peripheral branched actin network constituting one of the main drivers of eukaryotic cell migration. Here, we uncover an essential role of the hematopoietic-specific WRC component HEM1 for immune cell development. Germline-encoded HEM1 deficiency underlies an inborn error of immunity with systemic autoimmunity, at cellular level marked by WRC destabilization, reduced filamentous actin, and failure to assemble lamellipodia. Hem1
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Autoimmune Diseases/genetics ; Autoimmune Diseases/immunology ; Autoimmunity/immunology ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Bone Marrow Transplantation ; Cell Line ; Child ; Cytoskeleton ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Membrane Proteins/genetics ; Membrane Proteins/immunology ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Knockout ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology
    Chemical Substances Membrane Proteins ; NCKAP1L protein, human (144351-15-5)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2470-9468
    ISSN (online) 2470-9468
    DOI 10.1126/sciimmunol.abc3979
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