Glaucoma-causing myocilin mutants require the Peroxisomal targeting signal-1 receptor (PTS1R) to elevate intraocular pressure.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of worldwide irreversible visual impairment and blindness and is a clinically and genetically heterogenous group of optic neuropathies. Specific mutations in the myocilin (MYOC) gene cause primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) with varying age-of-onset and degree of severity. We show a mutation-dependent, gain-of-function association between human myocilin and the peroxisomal targeting signal type 1 receptor (PTS1R). There was correlation between the glaucoma phenotype and the specific MYOC mutations, with the more severe early-onset POAG mutations having a higher degree of association with PTS1R. Expression of human myocilin glaucomatous mutations in mouse eyes causes elevated intraocular pressure, which is a major phenotype of MYOC glaucoma. This is the first demonstration of a disease resulting from mutation-induced exposure of a cryptic signaling site that causes mislocalization of mutant protein to peroxisomes and the first disease-gene-based animal model of human POAG.
Shepard
Allan R
AR
Glaucoma Research, Alcon Research, Ltd, Fort Worth, TX 76134, USA. allan.shepard@alconlabs.com
Jacobson
Nasreen
N
Millar
J Cameron
JC
Pang
Iok-Hou
IH
Steely
H Thomas
HT
Searby
Charles C
CC
Sheffield
Val C
VC
Stone
Edwin M
EM
Clark
Abbot F
AF
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D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D005136:Eye Proteins; D006023:Glycoproteins; D000074435:Peroxisome-Targeting Signal 1 Receptor; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D000099179:Myocilin; C000614264:PEX5 protein, human