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Title: | Expanding the molecular spectrum of pathogenic SHOC2 variants underlying Mazzanti syndrome | Authors: | Motta, Marialetizia Solman, Maja Bonnard, Adeline A Kuechler, Alma Pantaleoni, Francesca Priolo, Manuela Chandramouli, Balasubramanian Coppola, Simona Pizzi, Simone Zara, Erika Ferilli, Marco Kayserili, Hülya Onesimo, Roberta Leoni, Chiara Brinkmann, Julia Vial, Yoann Kamphausen, Susanne B Thomas-Teinturier, Cécile Guimier, Anne Cordeddu, Viviana Mazzanti, Laura Zampino, Giuseppe Chillemi, Giovanni Zenker, Martin Cavé, Hélène Hertog, Jeroen Tartaglia, Marco |
Journal: | HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS ONLINE | Issue Date: | 2022 | Abstract: | We previously molecularly and clinically characterized Mazzanti syndrome, a RASopathy related to Noonan syndrome that is mostly caused by a single recurrent missense variant (c.4A > G, p.Ser2Gly) in SHOC2, which encodes a leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-containing protein facilitating signal flow through the RAS-mitogen-associated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. We also documented that the pathogenic p.Ser2Gly substitution causes upregulation of MAPK signaling and constitutive targeting of SHOC2 to the plasma membrane due to the introduction of an N-myristoylation recognition motif. The almost invariant occurrence of the pathogenic c.4A > G missense change in SHOC2 is mirrored by a relatively homogeneous clinical phenotype of Mazzanti syndrome. Here we provide new data on the clinical spectrum and molecular diversity of this disorder, and functionally characterize new pathogenic variants. The clinical phenotype of six unrelated individuals carrying novel disease-causing SHOC2 variants is delineated, and public and newly collected clinical data are utilized to profile the disorder. In silico, in vitro and in vivo characterization of the newly identified variants provides evidence that the consequences of these missense changes on SHOC2 functional behavior differ from what had been observed for the canonical p.Ser2Gly change but converge towards an enhanced activation of the RAS-MAPK pathway. Our findings expand the molecular spectrum of pathogenic SHOC2 variants, provide a more accurate picture of the phenotypic expression associated with variants in this gene, and definitively establish a GoF behavior as the mechanism of disease. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2067/47858 | ISSN: | 1460-2083 | DOI: | 10.1093/hmg/ddac071 |
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