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Missense mutations in the WD40 domain of AHI1 cause non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa

Nguyen, T-MT; Hull, S; Roepman, R; van den Born, LI; Oud, MM; de Vrieze, E; Hetterschijt, L; ... Haer-Wigman, L; + view all (2017) Missense mutations in the WD40 domain of AHI1 cause non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa. Journal of Medical Genetics , 54 pp. 624-632. 10.1136/jmedgenet-2016-104200. Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recent findings suggesting that Abelson helper integration site 1 (AHI1) is involved in non-syndromic retinal disease have been debated, as the functional significance of identified missense variants was uncertain. We assessed whether AHI1 variants cause non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa (RP). METHODS: Exome sequencing was performed in three probands with RP. The effects of the identified missense variants in AHI1 were predicted by three-dimensional structure homology modelling. Ciliary parameters were evaluated in patient's fibroblasts, and recombinant mutant proteins were expressed in ciliated retinal pigmented epithelium cells. RESULTS: In the three patients with RP, three sets of compound heterozygous variants were detected in AHI1 (c.2174G>A; p.Trp725* and c.2258A>T; p.Asp753Val, c.660delC; p.Ser221Glnfs*10 and c.2090C>T; p.Pro697Leu, c.2087A>G; p.His696Arg and c.2429C>T; p.Pro810Leu). All four missense variants were present in the conserved WD40 domain of Jouberin, the ciliary protein encoded by AHI1, with variable predicted implications for the domain structure. No significant changes in the percentage of ciliated cells, nor in cilium length or intraflagellar transport were detected. However, expression of mutant recombinant Jouberin in ciliated cells showed a significantly decreased enrichment at the ciliary base. CONCLUSIONS: This report confirms that mutations in AHI1 can underlie autosomal recessive RP. Moreover, it structurally and functionally validates the effect of the RP-associated AHI1 variants on protein function, thus proposing a new genotype-phenotype correlation for AHI1 mutation associated retinal ciliopathies.

Type: Article
Title: Missense mutations in the WD40 domain of AHI1 cause non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2016-104200
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2016-104200
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Keywords: AHI1, Jouberin, WD40 domain, exome sequencing, non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa
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 Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555335
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