Usher syndrome and Leber congenital amaurosis are molecularly linked via a novel isoform of the centrosomal ninein-like protein.

ABSTRACT: Usher syndrome (USH) and Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) are autosomal recessive disorders resulting in syndromic and non-syndromic forms of blindness. In order to gain insight into the pathogenic mechanisms underlying retinal degeneration, we searched for interacting proteins of USH2A isoform B (USH2A(isoB)) and the LCA5-encoded protein lebercilin. We identified a novel isoform of the centrosomal ninein-like protein, hereby named Nlp isoform B (Nlp(isoB)), as a common interactor. Although we identified the capacity of this protein to bind calcium with one of its three EF-hand domains, the interacton with USH2A(isoB) did not depend on this. Upon expression in ARPE-19 cells, recombinant Nlp(isoB), lebercilin and USH2A(isoB) were all found to co-localize at the centrosomes. Staining of reti

SUBMITTER: van Wijk E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3298862 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature