Title |
Expression profiling of white sponge nevus by RNA sequencing revealed pathological pathways
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Published in |
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, June 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/s13023-015-0285-y |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Wenping Cai, Beizhan Jiang, Tienan Feng, Jinfeng Xue, Jianhua Yang, Zhenghu Chen, Junjun Liu, Rongbin Wei, Shangfeng Liu, Shouliang Zhao, Xiaoping Wang |
Abstract |
White sponge nevus (WSN) is a rare periodontal hereditary disease. To date, almost all WSN studies have focused on case reports or mutation reports. Thus, the mechanism behind WSN is still unclear. We investigated the pathogenesis of WSN using expression profiling. Sequence analysis of samples from a WSN Chinese family revealed a mutation (332 T > C) in the KRT13 gene that resulted in the amino acid change Leu111Pro. The pathological pathway behind the WSN expression profile was investigated by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). Construction of a heatmap revealed 24 activated genes and 57 reduced genes in the WSN patients. The ribosome structure was damaged in the WSN patients. Moreover, the translation rate was limited in the WSN patients, whereas ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis was enhanced. Our results suggest that the abnormal degradation of the KRT13 protein in WSN patients may be associated with keratin 7 (KRT7) and an abnormal ubiquitination process. |
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