2023
Pleiotropic role of TRAF7 in skull-base meningiomas and congenital heart disease
Mishra-Gorur K, Barak T, Kaulen L, Henegariu O, Jin S, Aguilera S, Yalbir E, Goles G, Nishimura S, Miyagishima D, Djenoune L, Altinok S, K. D, Viviano S, Prendergast A, Zerillo C, Ozcan K, Baran B, Sencar L, Goc N, Yarman Y, Ercan-Sencicek A, Bilguvar K, Lifton R, Moliterno J, Louvi A, Yuan S, Deniz E, Brueckner M, Gunel M. Pleiotropic role of TRAF7 in skull-base meningiomas and congenital heart disease. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2023, 120: e2214997120. PMID: 37043537, PMCID: PMC10120005, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2214997120.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWild-type proteinInherited mutationsCardiac outflow tractDevelopmental heart defectsProtein functionLack ciliaPleiotropic rolesMechanistic convergenceNeural crestCiliary defectsSomatic variantsForebrain meningesCommon originDominant mannerMutationsTRAF7ZebrafishMutantsDisparate pathologiesHeterodimerizationKnockdownGeneticsProteinCiliaCongenital heart
2020
METAP1 mutation is a novel candidate for autosomal recessive intellectual disability
Caglayan AO, Aktar F, Bilguvar K, Baranoski JF, Akgumus GT, Harmanci AS, Erson-Omay EZ, Yasuno K, Caksen H, Gunel M. METAP1 mutation is a novel candidate for autosomal recessive intellectual disability. Journal Of Human Genetics 2020, 66: 215-218. PMID: 32764695, PMCID: PMC7785574, DOI: 10.1038/s10038-020-0820-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEssential proteinsAutosomal recessive intellectual disabilityRecessive intellectual disabilityMethionine aminopeptidase 1Genomic analysisHomozygous nonsense mutationFunction mutationsNovel homozygous nonsense mutationNonsense mutationAminopeptidase 1Novel candidatesNeuronal functionMutationsMolecular pathogenesisProteinIntellectual disabilityGenome testingEukaryotesNovel etiologyMetAP1GenesNeurologic impairmentCommon diseasePathwayCells
2014
NGLY1 mutation causes neuromotor impairment, intellectual disability, and neuropathy
Caglayan AO, Comu S, Baranoski JF, Parman Y, Kaymakçalan H, Akgumus GT, Caglar C, Dolen D, Erson-Omay EZ, Harmanci AS, Mishra-Gorur K, Freeze HH, Yasuno K, Bilguvar K, Gunel M. NGLY1 mutation causes neuromotor impairment, intellectual disability, and neuropathy. European Journal Of Medical Genetics 2014, 58: 39-43. PMID: 25220016, PMCID: PMC4804755, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2014.08.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsN-glycanase 1Proteasome-mediated degradationConserved enzymeFrame-shift mutationApparent intellectual disabilityBase pair deletionNeuromotor impairmentNovel homozygous frame-shift mutationHomozygous frame-shift mutationNeuronal cellsPair deletionAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisIntellectual disabilityMutationsProteinNeurological functionCorneal opacityNeurologic diseaseLateral sclerosisParkinson's diseaseProgressive lossDiseaseCytoplasmImpairmentDeletion