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标题：Fatal outcome after heart surgery in PMM2-CDG due to a rare homozygous gene variant with double effects
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作者：Marlen Görlacher ; Eleftheria Panagiotou ; Nastassja Himmelreich 等
期刊名称：Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
印刷版ISSN：2214-4269
出版年度：2020
卷号：25
页码：100673
DOI：10.1016/j.ymgmr.2020.100673
出版社：Elsevier B.V.
摘要：Variants in Phosphomannomutase 2 (PMM2) lead to PMM2-CDG, the most frequent congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG). We here describe the disease course of a ten-month old patient who presented with the classical PMM2-CDG symptoms as cerebellar hypoplasia, retinitis pigmentosa, seizures, short stature, hepato- and splenomegaly, anaemia, recurrent vomiting and inverted mamillae. A severe form of tetralogy of Fallot was diagnosed and corrective surgery was performed at the age of 10 months. At the end of the cardiopulmonary bypass, a sudden oedematous reaction of the myocardium accompanied by biventricular pump failure was observed immediately after heparin antagonization with protamine sulfate. The patient died seven days after surgery, since myocardial function did not recover on ECMO support. We here describe the first patient carrying the homozygous variant g.18313A > T in the PMM2 gene (NG_009209.1) that either can lead to c.394A > T (p.I132F) or even loss of 100 bp due to exon 5 skipping (c.348_447del; p.G117Rfs*4) which is comparable to a null allele. Proliferation and doubling time of the patient's fibroblasts were affected. In addition, we show that the induction of cellular stress by elevating the cell culture temperature to 40 °C led to a decrease of the patients' PMM2 transcript as well as PMM2 protein levels and subsequently to a significant loss of residual activity. We assume that metabolic stressful processes occurring after cardiac surgery led to the drop of the patient's PMM activity below a life-sustaining niveau which paved the way for the fatal outcome.
关键词：Congenital disorder(s) of glycosylation ; PMM2 ; Phosphomannomutase 2 ; Splicing variant ; Exon skipping ; N- glycosylation