title: Mutation of the melastatin-related cation channel, TRPM3, underlies inherited cataract and glaucoma.
abstract: Inherited forms of cataract are a clinically important and genetically heterogeneous cause of visual impairment that usually present at an early age with or without systemic and/or other ocular abnormalities. Here we have identified a new locus for inherited cataract and high-tension glaucoma with variable anterior segment defects, and characterized an underlying mutation in the gene coding for transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily M, member-3 (TRPM3, melastatin-2). Genome-wide linkage analysis mapped the ocular disease locus to the pericentric region of human chromosome 9. Whole exome and custom-target next-generation sequencing detected a heterozygous A-to-G transition in exon-3 of TRPM3 that co-segregated with disease. As a consequence of alternative splicing this missense mutation was predicted to result in the substitution of isoleucine-to-methionine at codon 65 (c.195A>G; p.I65 M) of TRPM3 transcript variant 9, and at codon 8 (c.24A>G; p.I8 M) of a novel TRPM3 transcript variant expressed in human lens. In both transcript variants the I-to-M substitution was predicted in silico to exert damaging effects on protein function. Furthermore, transient expression studies of a recombinant TRPM3-GFP reporter product predicted that the I-to-M substitution introduced an alternative translation start-site located 89 codons upstream from the native initiator methionine found in eight other TRPM3 transcript variants (1-8). Collectively, these studies have provided the first evidence that TRPM3 is associated with inherited ocular disease in humans, and further provide support for the important role of this cation channel in normal eye development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
authors.forename: Donna S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Mackay
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
authors.forename: Carla J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Siegfried
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shiels
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001483:Base Sequence; D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D002899:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 / Q000737:chemistry; D003062:Codon; D059472:Exome; D005091:Exons; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D057809:HEK293 Cells; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020125:Mutation, Missense; D010375:Pedigree; D050053:TRPM Cation Channels / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D050053:TRPM Cation Channels; C475667:TRPM3 protein, human; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins
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