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Neuron | 1999

Doublecortin is a developmentally regulated, microtubule-associated protein expressed in migrating and differentiating neurons.

Fiona Francis; Annette Koulakoff; Dominique Boucher; Philippe Chafey; Bruce T. Schaar; Marie-Claude Vinet; Gaëlle Friocourt; Nathalie McDonnell; Orly Reiner; Axel Kahn; Susan K. McConnell; Yoheved Berwald-Netter; Philippe Denoulet; Jamel Chelly

Recently, we and others reported that the doublecortin gene is responsible for X-linked lissencephaly and subcortical laminar heterotopia. Here, we show that Doublecortin is expressed in the brain throughout the period of corticogenesis in migrating and differentiating neurons. Immunohistochemical studies show its localization in the soma and leading processes of tangentially migrating neurons, and a strong axonal labeling is observed in differentiating neurons. In cultured neurons, Doublecortin expression is highest in the distal parts of developing processes. We demonstrate by sedimentation and microscopy studies that Doublecortin is associated with microtubules (MTs) and postulate that it is a novel MAP. Our data suggest that the cortical dysgeneses associated with the loss of Doublecortin function might result from abnormal cytoskeletal dynamics in neuronal cell development.


Cell | 1998

A Novel CNS Gene Required for Neuronal Migration and Involved in X-Linked Subcortical Laminar Heterotopia and Lissencephaly Syndrome

Vincent des Portes; Jean Marc Pinard; Pierre Billuart; Marie Claude Vinet; Annette Koulakoff; Alain Carrié; Antoinette Gelot; Elisabeth Dupuis; Jacques Motte; Yoheved Berwald-Netter; Martin Catala; Axel Kahn; Cherif Beldjord; Jamel Chelly

X-SCLH/LIS syndrome is a neuronal migration disorder with disruption of the six-layered neocortex. It consists of subcortical laminar heterotopia (SCLH, band heterotopia, or double cortex) in females and lissencephaly (LIS) in males, leading to epilepsy and cognitive impairment. We report the characterization of a novel CNS gene encoding a 40 kDa predicted protein that we named Doublecortin and the identification of mutations in four unrelated X-SCLH/LIS cases. The predicted protein shares significant homology with the N-terminal segment of a protein containing a protein kinase domain at its C-terminal part. This novel gene is highly expressed during brain development, mainly in fetal neurons including precursors. The complete disorganization observed in lissencephaly and heterotopia thus seems to reflect a failure of early events associated with neuron dispersion.


American Journal of Human Genetics | 2004

X-linked mental retardation and autism are associated with a mutation in the NLGN4 gene, a member of the Neuroligin family

Frédéric Laumonnier; Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault; Marie Gomot; Romuald Blanc; Albert David; Marie-Pierre Moizard; Martine Raynaud; Nathalie Ronce; Eric Lemonnier; Patrick Calvas; Béatrice Laudier; Jamel Chelly; Jean-Pierre Fryns; Hans-Hilger Ropers; B.C.J. Hamel; Christian Andres; Catherine Barthélémy; Claude Moraine; Sylvain Briault

A large French family including members affected by nonspecific X-linked mental retardation, with or without autism or pervasive developmental disorder in affected male patients, has been found to have a 2-base-pair deletion in the Neuroligin 4 gene (NLGN4) located at Xp22.33. This mutation leads to a premature stop codon in the middle of the sequence of the normal protein and is thought to suppress the transmembrane domain and sequences important for the dimerization of neuroligins that are required for proper cell-cell interaction through binding to beta-neurexins. As the neuroligins are mostly enriched at excitatory synapses, these results suggest that a defect in synaptogenesis may lead to deficits in cognitive development and communication processes. The fact that the deletion was present in both autistic and nonautistic mentally retarded males suggests that the NLGN4 gene is not only involved in autism, as previously described, but also in mental retardation, indicating that some types of autistic disorder and mental retardation may have common genetic origins.


Nature Genetics | 2009

A systematic, large-scale resequencing screen of X-chromosome coding exons in mental retardation

Patrick Tarpey; Raffaella Smith; Erin Pleasance; Annabel Whibley; Sarah Edkins; Claire Hardy; Sarah O'Meara; Calli Latimer; Ed Dicks; Andrew Menzies; Phil Stephens; Matt Blow; Christopher Greenman; Yali Xue; Chris Tyler-Smith; Deborah Thompson; Kristian Gray; Jenny Andrews; Syd Barthorpe; Gemma Buck; Jennifer Cole; Rebecca Dunmore; David Jones; Mark Maddison; Tatiana Mironenko; Rachel Turner; Kelly Turrell; Jennifer Varian; Sofie West; Sara Widaa

Large-scale systematic resequencing has been proposed as the key future strategy for the discovery of rare, disease-causing sequence variants across the spectrum of human complex disease. We have sequenced the coding exons of the X chromosome in 208 families with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR), the largest direct screen for constitutional disease-causing mutations thus far reported. The screen has discovered nine genes implicated in XLMR, including SYP, ZNF711 and CASK reported here, confirming the power of this strategy. The study has, however, also highlighted issues confronting whole-genome sequencing screens, including the observation that loss of function of 1% or more of X-chromosome genes is compatible with apparently normal existence.


Nature | 1998

Oligophrenin-1 encodes a rhoGAP protein involved in X-linked mental retardation

Pierre Billuart; Thierry Bienvenu; Nathalie Ronce; V. des Portes; Marie-Claude Vinet; Ramzi Zemni; H.R. Crollius; Alain Carrié; F. Fauchereau; M. Cherry; Sylvain Briault; B.C.J. Hamel; Jean Pierre Fryns; Cherif Beldjord; Axel Kahn; Claude Moraine; Jamel Chelly

Primary or nonspecific X-linked mental retardation (MRX) is a heterogeneous condition in which affected patients do not have any distinctive clinical or biochemical features in common apart from cognitive impairment. Although it is present in approximately 0.15–0.3% of males, most of the genetic defects associated with MRX, which may involve more than ten different genes, remain unknown. Here we report the characterization of a new gene on the long arm of the X-chromosome (position Xq12) and the identification in unrelated individuals of different mutations that are predicted to cause a loss of function. This gene is highly expressed in fetal brain and encodes a protein of relative molecular mass 91K, named oligophrenin-1, which contains a domain typical of a Rho-GTPase–activating protein (rhoGAP),. By enhancing their GTPase activity, GAP proteins inactivate small Rho and Ras proteins, so inactivation of rhoGAP proteins might cause constitutive activation of their GTPase targets. Such activation is known to affect cell migration and outgrowth of axons and dendrites in vivo,. Our results demonstrate an association between cognitive impairment and a defect in a signalling pathway that depends on a Ras-like GTPase.


Nature Genetics | 2000

Mutations in ARHGEF6, encoding a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rho GTPases, in patients with X-linked mental retardation.

Kerstin Kutsche; H.G. Yntema; A. Brandt; I. Jantke; Hans Gerd Nothwang; Ulrike Orth; M.G. Boavida; D. David; Jamel Chelly; Jean Pierre Fryns; Claude Moraine; H.H. Ropers; B.C.J. Hamel; J.H.L.M. van Bokhoven; Andreas Gal

X-linked forms of mental retardation (XLMR) include a variety of different disorders and may account for up to 25% of all inherited cases of mental retardation. So far, seven X-chromosomal genes mutated in nonspecific mental retardation (MRX) have been identified: FMR2, GDI1, RPS6KA3, IL1RAPL, TM4SF2, OPHN1 and PAK3 (refs 2–9). The products of the latter two have been implicated in regulation of neural plasticity by controlling the activity of small GTPases of the Rho family. Here we report the identification of a new MRX gene, ARHGEF6 (also known as αPIX or Cool-2), encoding a protein with homology to guanine nucleotide exchange factors for Rho GTPases (Rho GEF). Molecular analysis of a reciprocal X/21 translocation in a male with mental retardation showed that this gene in Xq26 was disrupted by the rearrangement. Mutation screening of 119 patients with nonspecific mental retardation revealed a mutation in the first intron of ARHGEF6 (IVS1-11T→C) in all affected males in a large Dutch family. The mutation resulted in preferential skipping of exon 2, predicting a protein lacking 28 amino acids. ARHGEF6 is the eighth MRX gene identified so far and the third such gene to encode a protein that interacts with Rho GTPases.


Cell | 2007

Mutations in α-Tubulin Cause Abnormal Neuronal Migration in Mice and Lissencephaly in Humans

David A. Keays; Guoling Tian; Karine Poirier; Guo-Jen Huang; Christian Siebold; James Cleak; Peter L. Oliver; Martin Fray; Robert J. Harvey; Zoltán Molnár; Maria Carmen Piñon; Neil Dear; William Valdar; Steve D.M. Brown; Kay E. Davies; J. Nicholas P. Rawlins; Nicholas J. Cowan; Patrick M. Nolan; Jamel Chelly; Jonathan Flint

Summary The development of the mammalian brain is dependent on extensive neuronal migration. Mutations in mice and humans that affect neuronal migration result in abnormal lamination of brain structures with associated behavioral deficits. Here, we report the identification of a hyperactive N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-induced mouse mutant with abnormalities in the laminar architecture of the hippocampus and cortex, accompanied by impaired neuronal migration. We show that the causative mutation lies in the guanosine triphosphate (GTP) binding pocket of α-1 tubulin (Tuba1) and affects tubulin heterodimer formation. Phenotypic similarity with existing mouse models of lissencephaly led us to screen a cohort of patients with developmental brain anomalies. We identified two patients with de novo mutations in TUBA3, the human homolog of Tuba1. This study demonstrates the utility of ENU mutagenesis in the mouse as a means to discover the basis of human neurodevelopmental disorders.


Nature Genetics | 1998

Mutations in GDI1 are responsible for X-linked non-specific mental retardation.

Patrizia D'Adamo; Andrea Menegon; Cristiana Lo Nigro; Marina Grasso; Massimo Gulisano; Filippo Tamanini; Thierry Bienvenu; Agi K. Gedeon; Ben A. Oostra; Shih Kwang Wu; Anurag Tandon; Flavia Valtorta; William E. Balch; Jamel Chelly; Daniela Toniolo

Rab GDP-dissociation inhibitors (GDI) are evolutionarily conserved proteins that play an essential role in the recycling of Rab GTPases required for vesicular transport through the secretory pathway. We have found mutations in the GDI1 gene (which encodes αGDI) in two families affected with X-linked non-specific mental retardation. One of the mutations caused a non-conservative substitution (L92P) which reduced binding and recycling of RAB3A, the second was a null mutation. Our results show that both functional and developmental alterations in the neuron may account for the severe impairment of learning abilities as a consequence of mutations in GDI1, emphasizing its critical role in development of human intellectual and learning abilities.


Nature Genetics | 1999

A new member of the IL-1 receptor family highly expressed in hippocampus and involved in X-linked mental retardation

A. Carrie; L. Jun; Thierry Bienvenu; M.C. Vinet; N. McDonell; P. Couvert; R. Zemni; A. Cardona; G.J.C.M. van Buggenhout; S.G. Frints; B.C.J. Hamel; C. Moraine; Hans-Hilger Ropers; T.M. Strom; Gareth R. Howell; Adam Whittaker; Mark T. Ross; Axel Kahn; J. P. Fryns; Cherif Beldjord; Peter Marynen; Jamel Chelly

We demonstrate here the importance of interleukin signalling pathways in cognitive function and the normal physiology of the CNS. Thorough investigation of an MRX critical region in Xp22.1–21.3 enabled us to identify a new gene expressed in brain that is responsible for a non-specific form of X-linked mental retardation. This gene encodes a 696 amino acid protein that has homology to IL-1 receptor accessory proteins. Non-overlapping deletions and a nonsense mutation in this gene were identified in patients with cognitive impairment only. Its high level of expression in post-natal brain structures involved in the hippocampal memory system suggests a specialized role for this new gene in the physiological processes underlying memory and learning abilities.


Nature Genetics | 2009

Mutations in the [beta]-tubulin gene TUBB2B result in asymmetrical polymicrogyria

Xavier H. Jaglin; Karine Poirier; Yoann Saillour; Emmanuelle Buhler; Guoling Tian; Nadia Bahi-Buisson; Catherine Fallet-Bianco; Françoise Phan-Dinh-Tuy; Xiang-Peng Kong; Pascale Bomont; Laëtitia Castelnau-Ptakhine; Sylvie Odent; Philippe Loget; Manoelle Kossorotoff; Irina Snoeck; Ghislaine Plessis; Philippe Parent; Cherif Beldjord; Carlos Cardoso; Alfonso Represa; Jonathan Flint; David A. Keays; Nicholas J. Cowan; Jamel Chelly

Polymicrogyria is a relatively common but poorly understood defect of cortical development characterized by numerous small gyri and a thick disorganized cortical plate lacking normal lamination. Here we report de novo mutations in a β-tubulin gene, TUBB2B, in four individuals and a 27-gestational-week fetus with bilateral asymmetrical polymicrogyria. Neuropathological examination of the fetus revealed an absence of cortical lamination associated with the presence of ectopic neuronal cells in the white matter and in the leptomeningeal spaces due to breaches in the pial basement membrane. In utero RNAi-based inactivation demonstrates that TUBB2B is required for neuronal migration. We also show that two disease-associated mutations lead to impaired formation of tubulin heterodimers. These observations, together with previous data, show that disruption of microtubule-based processes underlies a large spectrum of neuronal migration disorders that includes not only lissencephaly and pachygyria, but also polymicrogyria malformations.

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Thierry Bienvenu

Paris Descartes University

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Jean-Pierre Fryns

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

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Pierre Billuart

Paris Descartes University

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B.C.J. Hamel

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

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Jozef Gecz

University of Adelaide

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Hilde Van Esch

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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