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Cunningham D, Spychala K, McLarren KW, Garza LA, Boerkoel CF, Herman GE. Developmental expression pattern of the cholesterogenic enzyme NSDHL and negative selection of NSDHL-deficient cells in the heterozygous Bpa(1H)/+ mouse. Mol Genet Metab 2009; 98:356-66. [PMID: 19631568 PMCID: PMC2783206 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2009.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2009] [Revised: 06/30/2009] [Accepted: 06/30/2009] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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NSDHL (NAD(P)H sterol dehydrogenase-like), is a 3beta-hydroxysterol dehydrogenase thought to function in the demethylation of sterol precursors in one of the later steps of cholesterol biosynthesis. Mutations in the X-linked NSDHL gene cause CHILD syndrome in humans, and the male-lethal bare patches (Bpa) phenotype in mice. The relative level of NSDHL expression among different mouse tissues at several stages of embryogenesis and postnatal development was analyzed by immunohistochemistry. In wild type (WT) embryos, the highest levels of expression were seen in the liver, dorsal root ganglia, central nervous system, retina, adrenal gland and testis. Heterozygous Bpa(1H) females are mosaic for NSDHL expression due to normal random X-inactivation. NSDHL-deficient cells were detected in the developing cerebral cortex and retina of Bpa(1H) female embryos. In postnatal WT and Bpa(1H) animals, we compared the expression pattern of NSDHL in skin, an affected tissue; liver, a main site of cholesterol synthesis; and brain, a tissue dependent on endogenous synthesis of cholesterol due to lack of transport across the blood-brain barrier. Clonal populations of mutant cells were visible in the brain, skin and liver of Bpa(1H) pups. In the liver, the proportion of NSDHL negative cells dropped from approximately 50% at postnatal day 6 to approximately 20% at one year of age. In the brain, which showed the highest expression in cerebral cortical and hippocampal neurons, the proportion of NSDHL negative cells also dropped dramatically over the first year of life. Our results suggest that while NSDHL-deficient cells in the mosaic Bpa(1H) female are able to survive and differentiate during embryonic development, they are subject to negative selection over the life of the animal.
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- David Cunningham
- The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
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Cunningham D, Talabere T, Bir N, Kennedy M, McBride KL, Herman GE. Significant contributions of the extraembryonic membranes and maternal genotype to the placental pathology in heterozygous Nsdhl deficient female embryos. Hum Mol Genet 2009; 19:364-73. [PMID: 19880419 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddp502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Mutations in the gene encoding the cholesterol biosynthetic enzyme NSDHL are associated with the X-linked male-lethal bare patches (Bpa) mouse. Mutant male embryos for several Nsdhl alleles die in midgestation with placental insufficiency. We examined here a possible role of the maternal genotype in such placental pathology. Pre-pregnancy plasma cholesterol levels were similar between wild-type (WT) and Bpa(1H)/+ dams fed a standard, cholesterol-free diet. However, there was a marked decrease in cholesterol levels between embryonic day (E)8.5 and E10.5 for both genotypes. Further, there was a significant lag between E11.5 and E13.5 (P = 0.0011) in the recovery of levels in Bpa(1H)/+ dams to their pre-pregnancy values. To investigate possible effects of the maternal genotype on fetal placentation, we generated transgenic mice that expressed human NSDHL and rescued the male lethality of the Bpa(1H) null allele. We then compared placenta area at E10.5 in WT and Bpa(1H)/+ female embryos where the mutant X chromosome was transmitted from a heterozygous mother or a rescued mutant father. In mutant conceptuses, placental areas were approximately 50% less than WT. Surprisingly, expression of Nsdhl in trophoblast lineages of the placenta and yolk sac endoderm, which occurs only from the maternally inherited allele in a female embryo, had the largest effect on placental area (-0.681 mm(2); P < 0.0001). The maternal genotype had a smaller effect, independent of the fetal genotype (-0.283 mm(2); P = 0.024). These data demonstrate significant effects of the mother and fetal membranes on pregnancy outcome, with possible implications for cholesterol homeostasis during human pregnancy.
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- David Cunningham
- Department of Pediatrics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
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Cunningham D, Swartzlander D, Liyanarachchi S, Davuluri RV, Herman GE. Changes in gene expression associated with loss of function of the NSDHL sterol dehydrogenase in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. J Lipid Res 2005; 46:1150-62. [PMID: 15805545 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m400462-jlr200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Seven human disorders of postsqualene cholesterol biosynthesis have been described. One of these, congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform nevus and limb defects (CHILD) syndrome, results from mutations in the X-linked gene NADH sterol dehydrogenase-like (NSDHL) encoding a sterol dehydrogenase. A series of mutant alleles of the murine Nsdhl gene are carried by bare patches (Bpa) mice, with Bpa(1H) representing a null allele. Heterozygous Bpa(1H) females display skin and skeletal abnormalities in a distribution reflecting random X inactivation, whereas hemizygous male embryos die before embryonic day 10.5. To investigate the molecular basis of defects associated with perturbations in cholesterol biosynthesis, microarray analysis was performed comparing gene expression in embryonic fibroblasts expressing the Bpa(1H) allele versus wild-type (wt) cells. Labeled cDNAs from cells grown in normal serum or lipid-depleted serum (LDS) were hybridized to microarrays containing 22,000 mouse genes. Among 44 genes that showed higher expression in the Bpa(1H) versus wt cells grown in LDS, 11 function in cholesterol biosynthesis, 7 are involved in fatty acid synthesis, 3 (Srebp2, Insig1, and Orf11) encode sterol-regulatory proteins, and 2 (Ldlr and StarD4) are lipid transporters. Of the 21 remaining genes, 16 are known genes, some of which have been implicated previously in cholesterol homeostasis or lipid-mediated signaling, and 5 are uncharacterized cDNA clones.
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- David Cunningham
- Center for Molecular and Human Genetics, Columbus Children's Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Balmer R, Cameron AC, Adès L, Aldred MJ. Enamel defects and Lyonization in focal dermal hypoplasia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 98:686-91. [PMID: 15583541 DOI: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2004.02.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We report a pattern of enamel hypoplasia in focal dermal hypoplasia similar to that found in females with X-linked amelogenesis imperfecta. Three cases of focal dermal hypoplasia are described, with specific focus on the oral and dental features. In these cases the teeth all had vertical grooving with notching of the incisal or cuspal tips. Also recorded were blunt roots of taurodont form with open apices and missing teeth in 1 case. Oral papillomas were present in 2 cases. The pattern of enamel defects is attributed to Lyonization, which is consistent with the pattern of skin and bone lesions typically seen in focal dermal hypoplasia. This supports the proposal that focal dermal hypoplasia is X-linked. The authors conclude that the pattern of dental defects in focal dermal hypoplasia is consistent with Lyonization.
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The known disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis have expanded rapidly since the discovery that Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome is caused by a deficiency of 7-dehydrocholesterol. Each of the six now recognized sterol disorders-mevalonic aciduria, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, desmosterolosis, Conradi-Hünermann syndrome, CHILD syndrome, and Greenberg dysplasia-has added to our knowledge of the relationship between cholesterol metabolism and embryogenesis. One of the most important lessons learned from the study of these disorders is that abnormal cholesterol metabolism impairs the function of the hedgehog class of embryonic signaling proteins, which help execute the vertebrate body plan during the earliest weeks of gestation. The study of the enzymes and genes in these several syndromes has also expanded and better delineated an important class of enzymes and proteins with diverse structural functions and metabolic actions that include sterol biosynthesis, nuclear transcriptional signaling, regulation of meiosis, and even behavioral modulation.
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- R I Kelley
- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore Maryland 21205, USA.
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Aradhya S, Woffendin H, Bonnen P, Heiss NS, Yamagata T, Esposito T, Bardaro T, Poustka A, D'Urso M, Kenwrick S, Nelson DL. Physical and genetic characterization reveals a pseudogene, an evolutionary junction, and unstable loci in distal Xq28. Genomics 2002; 79:31-40. [PMID: 11827455 DOI: 10.1006/geno.2001.6680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A large portion of human Xq28 has been completely characterized but the interval between G6PD and Xqter has remained poorly understood. Because of a lack of stable, high-density clone coverage in this region, we constructed a 1.6-Mb bacterial and P1 artificial chromosome (BAC and PAC, respectively) contig to expedite mapping, structural and evolutionary analysis, and sequencing. The contig helped to reposition previously mismapped genes and to characterize the XAP135 pseudogene near the int22h-2 repeat. BAC clones containing the distal int22h repeats also demonstrated spontaneous rearrangements and sparse coverage, which suggested that they were unstable. Because the int22h repeats are involved in genetic diseases, we examined them in great apes to see if they have always been unstable. Differences in copy number among the apes, due to duplications and deletions, indicated that they have been unstable throughout their evolution. Taking another approach toward understanding the genomic nature of distal Xq28, we examined the homologous mouse region and found an evolutionary junction near the distal int22h loci that separated the human distal Xq28 region into two segments on the mouse X chromosome. Finally, haplotype analysis showed that a segment within Xq28 has resisted excessive interchromosomal exchange through great ape evolution, potentially accounting for the linkage disequilibrium recently reported in this region. Collectively, these data highlight some interesting features of the genomic sequence in Xq28 and will be useful for positional cloning efforts, mouse mutagenesis studies, and further evolutionary analyses.
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- Swaroop Aradhya
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza 902E, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Over the past few years, the number of identified inborn errors of cholesterol biosynthesis has increased significantly. The first inborn error of cholesterol biosynthesis to be characterized, in the mid 1980s, was mevalonic aciduria. In 1993, Irons et al. ( 1 ) (M. Irons, E. R. Elias, G. Salen, G. S. Tint, and A. K. Batta, Lancet 341:1414, 1993) reported that Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, a classic autosomal recessive malformation syndrome, was due to an inborn error of cholesterol biosynthesis. This was the first inborn error of postsqualene cholesterol biosynthesis to be identified, and subsequently additional inborn errors of postsqualene cholesterol biosynthesis have been characterized to various extent. To date, eight inborn errors of cholesterol metabolism have been described in human patients or in mutant mice. The enzymatic steps impaired in these inborn errors of metabolism include mevolonate kinase (mevalonic aciduria as well as hyperimmunoglobulinemia D and periodic fever syndrome), squalene synthase (Ss-/- mouse), 3beta-hydroxysteroid Delta14-reductase (hydrops-ectopic calcification-moth-eaten skeletal dysplasia), 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (CHILD syndrome, bare patches mouse, and striated mouse), 3beta-hydroxysteroid Delta8,Delta7-isomerase (X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata type 2, CHILD syndrome, and tattered mouse), 3beta-hydroxysteroid Delta24-reductase (desmosterolosis) and 3beta-hydroxysteroid Delta7-reductase (RSH/Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and Dhcr7-/- mouse). Identification of the genetic and biochemical defects which give rise to these syndromes has provided the first step in understanding the pathophysiological processes which underlie these malformation syndromes.
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- N A Nwokoro
- Heritable Disorders Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- J Graw
- GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Laboratory of Molecular Eye Development, Neuherberg, Germany
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Aradhya S, Nelson DL, Heiss NS, Poustka A, Woffendin H, Kenwrick S, Esposito T, Ciccodicola A, Bardaro T, D'Urso M, Smahi A, Munnich A, Herman GE, Lewis RA. Human homologue of the murine bare patches/striated gene is not mutated in incontinentia pigmenti type 2. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 2000; 91:241-4. [PMID: 10756353 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(20000320)91:3<241::aid-ajmg19>3.0.co;2-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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K�nig A, Happle R, Bornholdt D, Engel H, Grzeschik KH. Mutations in the NSDHL gene, encoding a 3?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, cause CHILD syndrome. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(20000214)90:4<339::aid-ajmg15>3.0.co;2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Liu XY, Dangel AW, Kelley RI, Zhao W, Denny P, Botcherby M, Cattanach B, Peters J, Hunsicker PR, Mallon AM, Strivens MA, Bate R, Miller W, Rhodes M, Brown SD, Herman GE. The gene mutated in bare patches and striated mice encodes a novel 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Nat Genet 1999; 22:182-7. [PMID: 10369263 DOI: 10.1038/9700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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X-linked dominant disorders that are exclusively lethal prenatally in hemizygous males have been described in human and mouse. None of the genes responsible has been isolated in either species. The bare patches (Bpa) and striated (Str) mouse mutations were originally identified in female offspring of X-irradiated males. Subsequently, additional independent alleles were described. We have previously mapped these X-linked dominant, male-lethal mutations to an overlapping region of 600 kb that is homologous to human Xq28 (ref. 4) and identified several candidate genes in this interval. Here we report mutations in one of these genes, Nsdhl, encoding an NAD(P)H steroid dehydrogenase-like protein, in two independent Bpa and three independent Str alleles. Quantitative analysis of sterols from tissues of affected Bpa mice support a role for Nsdhl in cholesterol biosynthesis. Our results demonstrate that Bpa and Str are allelic mutations and identify the first mammalian locus associated with an X-linked dominant, male-lethal phenotype. They also expand the spectrum of phenotypes associated with abnormalities of cholesterol metabolism.
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- X Y Liu
- Children's Hospital Research Foundation and Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43205, USA
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This review is intended to provide an overview of techniques and a source of reagents for physical mapping of the mouse genome. It focuses on those applications, methods, or resources unique to the mouse and on the generation of comparative physical maps. The reference list is not comprehensive; rather, recent reviews on each topic and selected representative examples are given.
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- G E Herman
- Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
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This article reviews the clinical features, histopathology, genetics, and differential diagnosis of incontinentia pigmenti. Emphasis is placed on appropriate management strategies for patients with incontinentia pigmenti.
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- J S Francis
- Children's Hospital and Medical Center, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
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Levin ML, Chatterjee A, Pragliola A, Worley KC, Wehnert M, Zhuchenko O, Smith RF, Lee CC, Herman GE. A comparative transcription map of the murine bare patches (Bpa) and striated (Str) critical regions and human Xq28. Genome Res 1996; 6:465-77. [PMID: 8828036 DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.6.465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The X-linked developmental mouse mutations bare patches (Bpa) and striated (Str) may be homologous to human X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX2) and incontinentia pigmenti (IP2), respectively, based on their genetic mapping and clinical phenotypes. Bpa and Str have been localized to an overlapping critical region of 600 kb that demonstrates conserved gene order with loci in human Xq28 between DXS1104 and DXS52. As part of efforts to isolate the genes involved in these disorders, we have begun to develop a comparative transcription map spanning this region in both species. Using techniques of cross-species conservation and hybridization, exon trapping, and cDNA selection we have identified four known genes or members of gene families--caltractin, a member of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) receptor gene family, a member of the melanoma antigen gene (MAGE) family, and several members of the murine-specific, X-linked lymphocyte regulated gene (Xlr3) family. Trapped exons and, in some cases, longer cDNAs have been isolated for potentially 7-9 additional genes. One cDNA demonstrates highly significant homology with members of the Krüppel family of zinc finger transcription factors. A second novel cDNA demonstrates homology at the 3' end of the predicted amino acid sequence to a LIM domain consensus. Gene order appears conserved among those cDNAs determined to be present in both human and mouse. Three of the murine transcripts appear to be present in multiple copies within the Bpa/Str critical region and could be associated with a predisposition to genomic rearrangements. Reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) and Northern analysis demonstrate that several of the transcripts are expressed in mid-gestation murine embryos and neonatal skin, making them candidates for the Bpa and Str mutations and their respective homologous human disorders.
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- M L Levin
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Chatterjee A, Tanaka T, Parrish JE, Herman GE. Refined mapping of caltractin in human Xq28 and in the homologous region of the mouse X chromosome places the gene within the bare patches (Bpa) and striated (Str) critical regions. Mamm Genome 1995; 6:802-4. [PMID: 8597638 DOI: 10.1007/bf00539008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Caltractin belongs to a family of calcium-binding proteins and is a structural component of the centrosome. A human caltractin cDNA (CALT) has recently been mapped by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to Xq28. We report here refined mapping of the human CALT gene and its murine homolog between the loci DXS1104 (DXHXS1104) DXS52 (DXHXS52) by PCR and Southern analysis on YACs and somatic cell hybrids from the region in both species. These mapping studies place the gene within the critical region for the murine X-linked dominant, male lethal mutations bare batches and striated.
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- A Chatterjee
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Pasteris NG, de Gouyon B, Cadle AB, Campbell K, Herman GE, Gorski JL. Cloning and regional localization of the mouse faciogenital dysplasia (Fgd1) gene. Mamm Genome 1995; 6:658-61. [PMID: 8535076 DOI: 10.1007/bf00352375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- N G Pasteris
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0688, USA
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