The myosin chaperone UNC45B is involved in lens development and autosomal dominant juvenile cataract
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The myosin chaperone UNC45B is involved in lens development and autosomal dominant juvenile cataract. / Hansen, Lars; Comyn, Sophie; Mang, Yuan; Lind-Thomsen, Allan; Myhre, Layne; Jean, Francesca; Eiberg, Hans; Tommerup, Niels; Rosenberg, Thomas; Pilgrim, David.
In: European Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 22, No. 11, 11.2014, p. 1290-1297.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The myosin chaperone UNC45B is involved in lens development and autosomal dominant juvenile cataract
AU - Hansen, Lars
AU - Comyn, Sophie
AU - Mang, Yuan
AU - Lind-Thomsen, Allan
AU - Myhre, Layne
AU - Jean, Francesca
AU - Eiberg, Hans
AU - Tommerup, Niels
AU - Rosenberg, Thomas
AU - Pilgrim, David
PY - 2014/11
Y1 - 2014/11
N2 - Genome-wide linkage analysis, followed by targeted deep sequencing, in a Danish multigeneration family with juvenile cataract revealed a region of chromosome 17 co-segregating with the disease trait. Affected individuals were heterozygous for two potentially protein-disrupting alleles in this region, in ACACA and UNC45B. As alterations of the UNC45B protein have been shown to affect eye development in model organisms, effort was focused on the heterozygous UNC45B missense mutation. UNC45B encodes a myosin-specific chaperone that, together with the general heat shock protein HSP90, is involved in myosin assembly. The mutation changes p.Arg805 to Trp in the UCS domain, an amino acid that is highly conserved from yeast to human. UNC45B is strongly expressed in the heart and skeletal muscle tissue, but here we show expression in human embryo eye and zebrafish lens. The zebrafish mutant steif, carrying an unc45b nonsense mutation, has smaller eyes than wild-type embryos and shows accumulation of nuclei in the lens. Injection of RNA encoding the human wild-type UNC45B protein into the steif homozygous embryo reduced the nuclei accumulation and injection of human mutant UNC45B cDNA in wild-type embryos resulted in development of a phenotype similar to the steif mutant. The p.Arg805Trp alteration in the mammalian UNC45B gene suggests that developmental cataract may be caused by a defect in non-muscle myosin assembly during maturation of the lens fiber cells.European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication, 19 February 2014; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2014.21.
AB - Genome-wide linkage analysis, followed by targeted deep sequencing, in a Danish multigeneration family with juvenile cataract revealed a region of chromosome 17 co-segregating with the disease trait. Affected individuals were heterozygous for two potentially protein-disrupting alleles in this region, in ACACA and UNC45B. As alterations of the UNC45B protein have been shown to affect eye development in model organisms, effort was focused on the heterozygous UNC45B missense mutation. UNC45B encodes a myosin-specific chaperone that, together with the general heat shock protein HSP90, is involved in myosin assembly. The mutation changes p.Arg805 to Trp in the UCS domain, an amino acid that is highly conserved from yeast to human. UNC45B is strongly expressed in the heart and skeletal muscle tissue, but here we show expression in human embryo eye and zebrafish lens. The zebrafish mutant steif, carrying an unc45b nonsense mutation, has smaller eyes than wild-type embryos and shows accumulation of nuclei in the lens. Injection of RNA encoding the human wild-type UNC45B protein into the steif homozygous embryo reduced the nuclei accumulation and injection of human mutant UNC45B cDNA in wild-type embryos resulted in development of a phenotype similar to the steif mutant. The p.Arg805Trp alteration in the mammalian UNC45B gene suggests that developmental cataract may be caused by a defect in non-muscle myosin assembly during maturation of the lens fiber cells.European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication, 19 February 2014; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2014.21.
U2 - 10.1038/ejhg.2014.21
DO - 10.1038/ejhg.2014.21
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24549050
VL - 22
SP - 1290
EP - 1297
JO - European Journal of Human Genetics
JF - European Journal of Human Genetics
SN - 1018-4813
IS - 11
ER -
ID: 108769552