Sequence variants of KHDRBS1 as high penetrance susceptibility risks for primary ovarian insufficiency by mis-regulating mRNA alternative splicing
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- 29 August 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Human Reproduction
- Vol. 32 (10), 2138-2146
- https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dex263
Abstract
Does a novel heterozygous KHDRBS1 variant, identified using whole-exome sequencing (WES) in two patients with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) in a pedigree, cause defects in mRNA alternative splicing? The heterozygous variant of KHDRBS1 was confirmed to cause defects in alternative splicing of many genes involved in DNA replication and repair. Studies in mice revealed that Khdrbs1 deficient females are subfertile, which manifests as delayed sexual maturity and significantly reduced numbers of secondary and pre-antral follicles. No mutation of KHDRBS1, however, has been reported in patients with POI. This genetic and functional study used WES to find putative mutations in a POI pedigree. Altogether, 215 idiopathic POI patients and 400 healthy controls were screened for KHDRBS1 mutations. Two POI patients were subjected to WES to identify sequence variants. Mutational analysis of the KHDRBS1 gene in 215 idiopathic POI patients and 400 healthy controls were performed. RNA-sequencing was carried out to find the mis-regulation of gene expression due to KHDRBS1 mutation. Bioinformatics was used to analyze the change in alternative splicing events. We identified a heterozygous mutation (c.460A > G, p.M154V) in KHDRBS1 in two patients. Further mutational analysis of 215 idiopathic POI patients with the KHDRBS1 gene found one heterozygous mutation (c.263C > T, p.P88L). We failed to find these two mutations in 400 healthy control women. Using RNA-sequencing, we found that the KGN cells expressing the M154V KHDRBS1 mutant had different expression of 66 genes compared with wild-type (WT) cells. Furthermore, 145 genes were alternatively spliced in M154V cells, and these genes were enriched for DNA replication and repair function, revealing a potential underlying mechanism of the pathology that leads to POI. Although the in vitro assays demonstrated the effect of the KHDRBS1 variant on alternative splicing, further studies are needed to validate the in vivo effects on germ cell and follicle development. This finding provides researchers and clinicians a better understanding of the etiology and molecular mechanism of POI. This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2012CB944704; 2012CB966702), National Research Institute for Family Planning (2017GJZ05), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171429) and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology. The authors declare no conflict of interest.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China National Research Institute for Family Planning National Natural Science Foundation of China Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology (2012CB944704, 2012CB966702)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China National Research Institute for Family Planning National Natural Science Foundation of China Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology (2017GJZ05)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China National Research Institute for Family Planning National Natural Science Foundation of China Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology (31171429)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China National Research Institute for Family Planning National Natural Science Foundation of China Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology
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