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- Title
Somatic activating mutations in MAP2K1 cause melorheostosis.
- Authors
Kang, Heeseog; Marini, Joan C.; Cabral, Wayne A.; Cowen, Edward W.; Bhattacharyya, Timothy; Jha, Smita; Zuoming Deng; Fratzl-Zelman, Nadja; Roschger, Paul; Klaushofer, Klaus; Ivovic, Aleksandra; Meylan, Françoise; Siegel, Richard M.; Hanson, Eric P.; Lange, Eileen; Katz, James
- Abstract
Melorheostosis is a sporadic disease of uncertain etiology characterized by asymmetric bone overgrowth and functional impairment. Using whole exome sequencing, we identify somatic mosaic MAP2K1 mutations in affected, but not unaffected, bone of eight unrelated patients with melorheostosis. The activating mutations (Q56P, K57E and K57N) cluster tightly in the MEK1 negative regulatory domain. Affected bone displays a mosaic pattern of increased p-ERK1/2 in osteoblast immunohistochemistry. Osteoblasts cultured from affected bone comprise two populations with distinct p-ERK1/2 levels by flow cytometry, enhanced ERK1/2 activation, and increased cell proliferation. However, these MAP2K1 mutations inhibit BMP2-mediated osteoblast mineralization and differentiation in vitro, underlying the markedly increased osteoid detected in affected bone histology. Mosaicism is also detected in the skin overlying bone lesions in four of five patients tested. Our data show that the MAP2K1 oncogene is important in human bone formation and implicate MEK1 inhibition as a potential treatment avenue for melorheostosis.
- Subjects
MELORHEOSTOSIS; OSTEOCHONDRODYSPLASIAS; MUTATIONS (Algebra); ABSTRACT algebra; MOSAIC (Computer software)
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-018-03720-z