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Deep intronic homozygous variation in PSMC3, a subunit of the 19S proteasome regulatory complex, causes a syndromic neurosensory disorder combining deafness and cataract

ABSTRACT: The association of congenital deafness and early-onset cataracts inherited as a recessive trait is a rare combination described in only a few syndromes with very few genes identified to date. Whole-genome sequencing was performed on 3 patients from independent sibships from a large consanguineous family presenting with severe deafness and early-onset cataracts as part of a variable neurological, sensorial and cutaneous syndrome. Medical assessments and imaging were used to define the phenotype. Genome sequencing was performed to unravel the altered genotype by subsequent bioinformatics analysis based on a specific physiopathological filtering approach. We identified a unique homozygous variant in intron 10 of the PSMC3 gene, encoding the 26S proteasome ATPase ring subunit 5 (Rpt5), with a predicted local splice effect as a new donor site (c.1127+337A>G, p.Ser376Argfs15*) confirmed by RT-PCR. Strikingly, fibroblasts derived from patients carrying the deep intronic homozygous PSMC3 pathogenic variant exhibited strong signs of perturbed protein homeostasis, as evidenced by increased accumulation of intracellular ubiquitin-modified proteins. Most interestingly and in contrast to control cells, patient fibroblasts failed to increase their amount of proteasomes following proteasome inhibition using the TCF11/Nrf1 pathway, indicating that these cells were unable to adapt to proteotoxic stress. By way of 2 different zebrafish assays we further show that loss of function of PSMC3 leads to inner ear development anomalies as well as cataracts alike the patient phenotype. We propose that the PSMC3 proteasome subunit dysfunction leads to a novel human syndrome that includes early onset cataracts and deafness and suggest that Rpt5 plays a major role in inner ear and lens development.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Fibroblast, Skin Fibroblast

DISEASE(S): Ciliopathy

SUBMITTER: Lauriane Kuhn

LAB HEAD: Jean Muller

PROVIDER: PXD015836 | Pride | 2020-04-28

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Proteasome subunit PSMC3 variants cause neurosensory syndrome combining deafness and cataract due to proteotoxic stress.

Kröll-Hermi Ariane A Ebstein Frédéric F Stoetzel Corinne C Geoffroy Véronique V Schaefer Elise E Scheidecker Sophie S Bär Séverine S Takamiya Masanari M Kawakami Koichi K Zieba Barbara A BA Studer Fouzia F Pelletier Valerie V Eyermann Carine C Speeg-Schatz Claude C Laugel Vincent V Lipsker Dan D Sandron Florian F McGinn Steven S Boland Anne A Deleuze Jean-François JF Kuhn Lauriane L Chicher Johana J Hammann Philippe P Friant Sylvie S Etard Christelle C Krüger Elke E Muller Jean J Strähle Uwe U Dollfus Hélène H

EMBO molecular medicine 20200605 7

The ubiquitin-proteasome system degrades ubiquitin-modified proteins to maintain protein homeostasis and to control signalling. Whole-genome sequencing of patients with severe deafness and early-onset cataracts as part of a neurological, sensorial and cutaneous novel syndrome identified a unique deep intronic homozygous variant in the PSMC3 gene, encoding the proteasome ATPase subunit Rpt5, which lead to the transcription of a cryptic exon. The proteasome content and activity in patient's fibrob ...[more]

PMID: 32500975

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Deep intronic homozygous variation in PSMC3, a subunit of the 19S proteasome regulatory complex, causes a syndromic neurosensory disorder combining deafness and cataract

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Proteasome subunit PSMC3 variants cause neurosensory syndrome combining deafness and cataract due to proteotoxic stress.

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