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Mice with alopecia, osteoporosis, and systemic amyloidosis due to mutation in Zdhhc13, a gene coding for palmitoyl acyltransferase.

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2010
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Saleem, Amir N
Chen, Yen-Hui
Baek, Hwa Jin
Hsiao, Ya-Wen
Huang, Hong-Wen
Kao, Hsiao-Jung
Liu, Kai-Ming
Shen, Li-Fen
Song, I-Wen
Tu, Chen-Pei D
Wu, Jer-Yuarn
Kikuchi, Tateki
Justice, Monica J
Yen, Jeffrey JY
Chen, Yuan-Tsong
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Protein palmitoylation has emerged as an important mechanism for regulating protein trafficking, stability, and protein-protein interactions; however, its relevance to disease processes is not clear. Using a genome-wide, phenotype driven N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-mediated mutagenesis screen, we identified mice with failure to thrive, shortened life span, skin and hair abnormalities including alopecia, severe osteoporosis, and systemic amyloidosis (both AA and AL amyloids depositions). Whole-genome homozygosity mapping with 295 SNP markers and fine mapping with an additional 50 SNPs localized the disease gene to chromosome 7 between 53.9 and 56.3 Mb. A nonsense mutation (c.1273A>T) was located in exon 12 of the Zdhhc13 gene (Zinc finger, DHHC domain containing 13), a gene coding for palmitoyl transferase. The mutation predicted a truncated protein (R425X), and real-time PCR showed markedly reduced Zdhhc13 mRNA. A second gene trap allele of Zdhhc13 has the same phenotypes, suggesting that this is a loss of function allele. This is the first report that palmitoyl transferase deficiency causes a severe phenotype, and it establishes a direct link between protein palmitoylation and regulation of diverse physiologic functions where its absence can result in profound disease pathology. This mouse model can be used to investigate mechanisms where improper palmitoylation leads to disease processes and to understand molecular mechanisms underlying human alopecia, osteoporosis, and amyloidosis and many other neurodegenerative diseases caused by protein misfolding and amyloidosis.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4472
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000985
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Saleem, Amir N; Chen, Yen-Hui; Baek, Hwa Jin; Hsiao, Ya-Wen; Huang, Hong-Wen; Kao, Hsiao-Jung; ... Chen, Yuan-Tsong (2010). Mice with alopecia, osteoporosis, and systemic amyloidosis due to mutation in Zdhhc13, a gene coding for palmitoyl acyltransferase. PLoS genetics, 6(6). pp. e1000985. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000985. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4472.
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Yuan-Tsong Chen

Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Our overall research interests are in translational research. We aim at translating the promise of genomic medicine into clinical reality. Specific projects at present time include: 1). Identification of novel genes/targets associated with human diseases. This includes susceptibility genes for common multi-factorial diseases and adverse drug reactions. Genetic epidemiology, mouse ENU mutagenesis, bioinformatics and proteomics are some approaches that we use in identif
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