Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis (autosomal + recessive_congenital_ichthyosi)

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Transglutaminase-1 gene mutations in autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis: Summary of mutations (including 23 novel) and modeling of TGase-1,

HUMAN MUTATION, Issue 4 2009
Matthew L. Herman
Abstract Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) is a heterogeneous group of rare cornification diseases. Germline mutations in TGM1 are the most common cause of ARCI in the United States. TGM1 encodes for the TGase-1 enzyme that functions in the formation of the cornified cell envelope. Structurally defective or attenuated cornified cell envelop have been shown in epidermal scales and appendages of ARCI patients with TGM1 mutations. We review the clinical manifestations as well as the molecular genetics of ARCI. In addition, we characterized 115 TGM1 mutations reported in 234 patients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (Caucasion Americans, Norwegians, Swedish, Finnish, German, Swiss, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Hispanics, Iranian, Tunisian, Moroccan, Egyptian, Afghani, Hungarian, African Americans, Korean, Japanese and South African). We report 23 novel mutations: 71 (62%) missense; 20 (17%) nonsense; 9 (8%) deletion; 8 (7%) splice-site, and 7 (6%) insertion. The c.877-2A>G was the most commonly reported TGM1 mutation accounting for 34% (147 of 435) of all TGM1 mutant alleles reported to date. It had been shown that this mutation is common among North American and Norwegian patients due to a founder effect. Thirty-one percent (36 of 115) of all mutations and 41% (29 of 71) of missense mutations occurred in arginine residues in TGase-1. Forty-nine percent (35 of 71) of missense mutations were within CpG dinucleotides, and 74% (26/35) of these mutations were C>T or G>A transitions. We constructed a model of human TGase-1 and showed that all mutated arginines that reside in the two beta-barrel domains and two (R142 and R143) in the beta-sandwich are located at domain interfaces. In conclusion, this study expands the TGM1 mutation spectrum and summarizes the current knowledge of TGM1 mutations. The high frequency of mutated arginine codons in TGM1 may be due to the deamination of 5, methylated CpG dinucleotides. Hum Mutat 0, 1,12, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Ultrastructural features resembling those of harlequin ichthyosis in patients with severe congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma

BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 3 2001
E. Virolainen
Congenital ichthyoses are a group of heterogeneous disorders of cornification. Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) can be clinically subdivided into congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma and lamellar ichthyosis. Ultrastructurally, ARCI is classified into four groups: ichthyosis congenita (IC) types I,IV. The genetic background of the ARCI disorders is heterogeneous, but only one disease gene, transglutaminase 1, has been detected so far. We describe six patients with severe congenital ichthyosis from six different Scandinavian families. They could not be classified ultrastructurally into the four IC groups because of atypical findings of electron microscopy. These included abnormal lamellar bodies, alterations in keratohyalin, remnant organelles and lipid inclusions in the upper epidermal cells, which resembled the ultrastructural findings of harlequin ichthyosis (HI), although the HI phenotype was not present at birth. Some clinical features, such as thick scales, erythroderma, alopecia and ectropion were common to all patients. Ichthyosis was usually accentuated in the scalp and four patients had clumped fingers and toes. None of the patients carried the transglutaminase 1 mutation. We conclude that ultrastructural findings resembling those detected in previous HI cases (type 1 and 2) can also be found in patients who do not have classic clinical features of that rare ichthyosis. This may be due to lack of specificity of ultrastructural markers for HI or to its clinical heterogeneity. [source]


Transglutaminase-1 gene mutations in autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis: Summary of mutations (including 23 novel) and modeling of TGase-1,

HUMAN MUTATION, Issue 4 2009
Matthew L. Herman
Abstract Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) is a heterogeneous group of rare cornification diseases. Germline mutations in TGM1 are the most common cause of ARCI in the United States. TGM1 encodes for the TGase-1 enzyme that functions in the formation of the cornified cell envelope. Structurally defective or attenuated cornified cell envelop have been shown in epidermal scales and appendages of ARCI patients with TGM1 mutations. We review the clinical manifestations as well as the molecular genetics of ARCI. In addition, we characterized 115 TGM1 mutations reported in 234 patients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (Caucasion Americans, Norwegians, Swedish, Finnish, German, Swiss, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Hispanics, Iranian, Tunisian, Moroccan, Egyptian, Afghani, Hungarian, African Americans, Korean, Japanese and South African). We report 23 novel mutations: 71 (62%) missense; 20 (17%) nonsense; 9 (8%) deletion; 8 (7%) splice-site, and 7 (6%) insertion. The c.877-2A>G was the most commonly reported TGM1 mutation accounting for 34% (147 of 435) of all TGM1 mutant alleles reported to date. It had been shown that this mutation is common among North American and Norwegian patients due to a founder effect. Thirty-one percent (36 of 115) of all mutations and 41% (29 of 71) of missense mutations occurred in arginine residues in TGase-1. Forty-nine percent (35 of 71) of missense mutations were within CpG dinucleotides, and 74% (26/35) of these mutations were C>T or G>A transitions. We constructed a model of human TGase-1 and showed that all mutated arginines that reside in the two beta-barrel domains and two (R142 and R143) in the beta-sandwich are located at domain interfaces. In conclusion, this study expands the TGM1 mutation spectrum and summarizes the current knowledge of TGM1 mutations. The high frequency of mutated arginine codons in TGM1 may be due to the deamination of 5, methylated CpG dinucleotides. Hum Mutat 0, 1,12, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Nonsense mutation in the ALOX12B gene leads to autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis in a Lebanese family

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY, Issue 2 2010
M Kurban
No abstract is available for this article. [source]