Six novel missense mutations in the LDL receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) gene in different conditions with an increased bone density.
Bone is a dynamic tissue that is subject to the balanced processes of bone formation and bone resorption. Imbalance can give rise to skeletal pathologies with increased bone density. In recent years, several genes underlying such sclerosing bone disorders have been identified. The LDL receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) gene has been shown to be involved in both osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome and the high-bone-mass phenotype and turned out to be an important regulator of peak bone mass in vertebrates. We performed mutation analysis of the LRP5 gene in 10 families or isolated patients with different conditions with an increased bone density, including endosteal hyperostosis, Van Buchem disease, autosomal dominant osteosclerosis, and osteopetrosis type I. Direct sequencing of the LRP5 gene revealed 19 sequence variants. Thirteen of these were confirmed as polymorphisms, but six novel missense mutations (D111Y, G171R, A214T, A214V, A242T, and T253I) are most likely disease causing. Like the previously reported mutation (G171V) that causes the high-bone-mass phenotype, all mutations are located in the aminoterminal part of the gene, before the first epidermal growth factor-like domain. These results indicate that, despite the different diagnoses that can be made, conditions with an increased bone density affecting mainly the cortices of the long bones and the skull are often caused by mutations in the LRP5 gene. Functional analysis of the effects of the various mutations will be of interest, to evaluate whether all the mutations give rise to the same pathogenic mechanism.
Van Wesenbeeck
Liesbeth
L
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Cleiren
Erna
E
Gram
Jeppe
J
Beals
Rodney K
RK
Bénichou
Olivier
O
Scopelliti
Domenico
D
Key
Lyndon
L
Renton
Tara
T
Bartels
Cindy
C
Gong
Yaoqin
Y
Warman
Matthew L
ML
De Vernejoul
Marie-Christine
MC
Bollerslev
Jens
J
Van Hul
Wim
W
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D000818:Animals; D015519:Bone Density / Q000235:genetics*; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D026502:LDL-Receptor Related Proteins; D060492:Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-5; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020125:Mutation, Missense; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000235:genetics; D011973:Receptors, LDL / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014714:Vertebrates
D026502:LDL-Receptor Related Proteins; C555482:LRP5 protein, human; D060492:Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-5; D011973:Receptors, LDL