TY - JOUR
T1 - Subunits of the translation initiation factor elF2B are mutant in leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter
AU - Leegwater, Peter A.J.
AU - Vermeulen, Gerre
AU - Könst, Andrea A.M.
AU - Naidu, Sakkubai
AU - Mulders, Joyce
AU - Visser, Allerdien
AU - Kersbergen, Paula
AU - Mobach, Dragosh
AU - Fonds, Dafna
AU - Van Berkel, Carola G.M.
AU - Lemmers, Richard J.L.F.
AU - Frants, Rune R.
AU - Oudejans, Cees B.M.
AU - Schutgens, Ruud B.H.
AU - Pronk, Jan C.
AU - Van der Knaap, Marjo S.
PY - 2001/12
Y1 - 2001/12
N2 - Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM) is an inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children. The course is chronic-progressive with additional episodes of rapid deterioration following febrile infection or minor head trauma. We have identified mutations in ElF2B5 and ElF2B2, encoding the ε- and β-subunits of the translation initiation factor elF2B and located on chromosomes 3q27 and 14q24, respectively, as causing VWM. We found 16 different mutations in ElF2B5 in 29 patients from 23 families. We also found two distantly related individuals who were homozygous with respect to a missense mutation in ElF2B2, affecting a conserved amino acid. Three other patients also had mutations in ElF2B2. As elF2B has an essential role in the regulation of translation under different conditions, including stress, this may explain the rapid deterioration of people with VWM under stress. Mutant translation initiation factors have not previously been implicated in disease.
AB - Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM) is an inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children. The course is chronic-progressive with additional episodes of rapid deterioration following febrile infection or minor head trauma. We have identified mutations in ElF2B5 and ElF2B2, encoding the ε- and β-subunits of the translation initiation factor elF2B and located on chromosomes 3q27 and 14q24, respectively, as causing VWM. We found 16 different mutations in ElF2B5 in 29 patients from 23 families. We also found two distantly related individuals who were homozygous with respect to a missense mutation in ElF2B2, affecting a conserved amino acid. Three other patients also had mutations in ElF2B2. As elF2B has an essential role in the regulation of translation under different conditions, including stress, this may explain the rapid deterioration of people with VWM under stress. Mutant translation initiation factors have not previously been implicated in disease.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1038/ng764
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/ng764
M3 - Article
C2 - 11704758
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 29
SP - 383
EP - 388
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 4
ER -