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Cerebral arteriopathy associated with heterozygous variants in the casitas B-lineage lymphoma gene

Hong, Y; Keylock, A; Jensen, B; Jacques, TS; Ogunbiyi, O; Omoyinmi, E; Saunders, D; ... Eleftheriou, D; + view all (2020) Cerebral arteriopathy associated with heterozygous variants in the casitas B-lineage lymphoma gene. Neurology Genetics , 6 (4) , Article e448. 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000448. Green open access

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To report a series of patients with cerebral arteriopathy associated with heterozygous variants in the casitas B-lineage lymphoma (CBL) gene and examine the functional role of the identified mutant Cbl protein. We hypothesized that mutated Cbl fails to act as a negative regulator of the RAS-mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) signaling pathway, resulting in enhanced vascular fibroblast proliferation and migration and enhanced angiogenesis and collateral vessel formation. METHODS: We performed whole-exome sequencing in 11 separate families referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, with suspected genetic cause for clinical presentation with severe progressive cerebral arteriopathy. RESULTS: We identified heterozygous variants in the CBL gene in 5 affected cases from 3 families. We show that impaired CBL-mediated degradation of cell surface tyrosine kinase receptors and dysregulated intracellular signaling through the RAS-MAPK pathway contribute to the pathogenesis of the observed arteriopathy. Mutated CBL failed to control the angiogenic signal relay of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, leading to prolonged tyrosine kinase signaling, thus driving angiogenesis and collateral vessel formation. Mutant Cbl promoted myofibroblast migration and proliferation contributing to vascular occlusive disease; these effects were abrogated following treatment with a RAF-RAS-MAPK pathway inhibitor. CONCLUSIONS: We provide a possible mechanism for the arteriopathy associated with heterozygous CBL variants. Identification of the key role for the RAS-MAPK pathway in CBL-mediated cerebral arteriopathy could facilitate identification of novel or repurposed druggable targets for treating these patients and may also provide therapeutic clues for other cerebral arteriopathies.

Type: Article
Title: Cerebral arteriopathy associated with heterozygous variants in the casitas B-lineage lymphoma gene
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000448
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1212/NXG.0000000000000448
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: All Genetics, All Clinical Neurology, All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Childhood stroke, Stroke prevention
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inflammation
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Developmental Biology and Cancer Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Developmental Neurosciences Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Genetics and Genomic Medicine Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10105638
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