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Monoallelic CRMP1 gene variants cause neurodevelopmental disorder

  1. Ethiraj Ravindran
  2. Nobuto Arashiki
  3. Lena-Luise Becker
  4. Kohtaro Takizawa
  5. Jonathan Lévy
  6. Thomas Rambaud
  7. Konstantin L Makridis
  8. Yoshio Goshima
  9. Na Li
  10. Maaike Vreeburg
  11. Bénédicte Demeer
  12. Achim Dickmanns
  13. Alexander PA Stegmann
  14. Hao Hu  Is a corresponding author
  15. Fumio Nakamura  Is a corresponding author
  16. Angela M Kaindl  Is a corresponding author
  1. Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  2. Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan
  3. Robert Debré University Hospital, France
  4. Laboratoire de biologie médicale multisites Seqoia, France
  5. Yokohama City University, Japan
  6. Guangzhou Medical University, China
  7. Maastricht University Medical Centre, Netherlands
  8. CHU Amiens-Picardie, France
  9. Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80793
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  1. Ethiraj Ravindran
  2. Nobuto Arashiki
  3. Lena-Luise Becker
  4. Kohtaro Takizawa
  5. Jonathan Lévy
  6. Thomas Rambaud
  7. Konstantin L Makridis
  8. Yoshio Goshima
  9. Na Li
  10. Maaike Vreeburg
  11. Bénédicte Demeer
  12. Achim Dickmanns
  13. Alexander PA Stegmann
  14. Hao Hu
  15. Fumio Nakamura
  16. Angela M Kaindl
(2022)
Monoallelic CRMP1 gene variants cause neurodevelopmental disorder
eLife 11:e80793.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80793
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Abstract

Collapsin response mediator proteins (CRMPs) are key for brain development and function. Here, we link CRMP1 to a neurodevelopmental disorder. We report heterozygous de novo variants in the CRMP1 gene in three unrelated individuals with muscular hypotonia, intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder. Based on in silico analysis these variants are predicted to affect the CRMP1 structure. We further analyzed the effect of the variants on the protein structure/levels and cellular processes. We showed that the human CRMP1 variants impact the oligomerization of CRMP1 proteins. Moreover, overexpression of the CRMP1 variants affect neurite outgrowth of murine cortical neurons. While altered CRMP1 levels have been reported in psychiatric diseases, genetic variants in CRMP1 gene have never been linked to human disease. We report for the first-time variants in the CRMP1 gene and emphasize its key role in brain development and function by linking directly to a human neurodevelopmental disease.

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  1. Ethiraj Ravindran

    Department of Pediatric Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  2. Nobuto Arashiki

    Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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  3. Lena-Luise Becker

    Department of Pediatric Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  4. Kohtaro Takizawa

    Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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  5. Jonathan Lévy

    Department of Genetics, Robert Debré University Hospital, Paris, France
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  6. Thomas Rambaud

    Laboratoire de biologie médicale multisites Seqoia, Paris, France
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  7. Konstantin L Makridis

    Department of Pediatric Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  8. Yoshio Goshima

    Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Neurobiology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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  9. Na Li

    Laboratory of Medical Systems Biology, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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  10. Maaike Vreeburg

    Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
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  11. Bénédicte Demeer

    Center for Human Genetics, CHU Amiens-Picardie, Amiens, France
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  12. Achim Dickmanns

    Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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  13. Alexander PA Stegmann

    Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
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  14. Hao Hu

    Laboratory of Medical Systems Biology, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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  15. Fumio Nakamura

    Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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    nakamura.fumio@twmu.ac.jp
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  16. Angela M Kaindl

    Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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    angela.kaindl@charite.de
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Funding

Charité - Universitatsmedizin Berlin

  • Ethiraj Ravindran
  • Lena-Luise Becker
  • Konstantin L Makridis
  • Angela M Kaindl

Berlin Institute of Health (CRG1)

  • Angela M Kaindl

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K07062)

  • Fumio Nakamura

Sonnenfeld Stiftung

  • Konstantin L Makridis

German Research Foundation (SFB665,SFB1315,FOR3004)

  • Angela M Kaindl

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All animal experimental protocols were checked and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Tokyo Women's medical University with protocol No. 'AE21-086'. All animal experiments were performed at daytime. The study was not pre-registered.

Human subjects: Written informed consent was obtained from all parents of the patients. The human study adhered to the World Health Association Declaration of Helsinki (2013) and was approved by the local ethics committees of the Charité (approval no. EA1/212/08).

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© 2022, Ravindran et al.

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  1. Ethiraj Ravindran
  2. Nobuto Arashiki
  3. Lena-Luise Becker
  4. Kohtaro Takizawa
  5. Jonathan Lévy
  6. Thomas Rambaud
  7. Konstantin L Makridis
  8. Yoshio Goshima
  9. Na Li
  10. Maaike Vreeburg
  11. Bénédicte Demeer
  12. Achim Dickmanns
  13. Alexander PA Stegmann
  14. Hao Hu
  15. Fumio Nakamura
  16. Angela M Kaindl
(2022)
Monoallelic CRMP1 gene variants cause neurodevelopmental disorder
eLife 11:e80793.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80793

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