单位:[1]Peking Univ, Inst Mol Med, Dept Human Populat Genet, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China[2]Peoples Liberat Army Gen Hosp, Dept Cardiovasc, Beijing 100853, Peoples R China[3]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Inst Hypertens,Tongji Hosp,Tongji Med Coll,Wuhan 430074,Peoples R China高血压病研究所华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院内科学系心血管内科[4]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol,Dept Internal Med,Tongji Hosp,Tongji Med Coll,Wuhan 430074,Peoples R China内科学系大内科华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院[5]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Inst Heart Lung & Blood Vessel Dis, Beijing Collaborat Innovat Ctr Cardiovasc Dis,Min, Beijing Anzhen Hosp,Key Lab Remodeling Related Ca, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China首都医科大学附属安贞医院[6]Nanchang Univ, Human Aging Res Inst, Dept Human Populat Genet, Nanchang 330031, Peoples R China[7]Nanchang Univ, Sch Life Sci, Nanchang 330031, Peoples R China
Mutations in the genes low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-related protein-6 (LRP6) and myocyte enhancer factor 2A (MEF2A) were reported in families with coronary artery disease (CAD). We intend to determine the mutational spectrum of these genes among hyperlipidemic and normolipidemic CAD families. Forty probands with early-onset CAD were recruited from 19 hyperlipidemic and 21 normolipidemic Chinese families. We sequenced all exons and intron-exon boundaries of LRP6 and MEF2A, and found a novel heterozygous variant in LRP6 from a proband with normolipidemic CAD. This variant led to a substitution of histidine to tyrosine (Y418H) in an evolutionarily conserved domain YWTD in exon 6 and was not found in 1025 unrelated healthy individuals. Co-segregated with CAD in the affected family, LRP6(Y418H) significantly debilitated the Wnt3a-associated signaling pathway, suppressed endothelial cell proliferation and migration, and decreased anti-apoptotic ability. However, it exhibited no influences on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol uptake. Thus, mutation Y418H in LRP6 likely contributes to normolipidemic familial CAD via impairing endothelial cell functions and weakening the Wnt3a signaling pathway.
基金:
National Basic Research Program of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (973 program) [2013CB530700, 2007CB512103]; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [81130003, 81070262]
第一作者单位:[1]Peking Univ, Inst Mol Med, Dept Human Populat Genet, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
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通讯机构:[1]Peking Univ, Inst Mol Med, Dept Human Populat Genet, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China[6]Nanchang Univ, Human Aging Res Inst, Dept Human Populat Genet, Nanchang 330031, Peoples R China[7]Nanchang Univ, Sch Life Sci, Nanchang 330031, Peoples R China