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- Title
SCO2 mutations cause early-onset axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease associated with cellular copper deficiency.
- Authors
Rebelo, Adriana P.; Saade, Dimah; Pereira, Claudia V.; Farooq, Amjad; Huff, Tyler C.; Abreu, Lisa; Moraes, Carlos T.; Mnatsakanova, Diana; Mathews, Kathy; Hua Yang; Schon, Eric A.; Zuchner, Stephan; Shy, Michael E.; Yang, Hua
- Abstract
Recessive mutations in the mitochondrial copper-binding protein SCO2, cytochrome c oxidase (COX) assembly protein, have been reported in several cases with fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy with COX deficiency. Significantly expanding the known phenotypic spectrum, we identified compound heterozygous variants in SCO2 in two unrelated patients with axonal polyneuropathy, also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4. Different from previously described cases, our patients developed predominantly motor neuropathy, they survived infancy, and they have not yet developed the cardiomyopathy that causes death in early infancy in reported patients. Both of our patients harbour missense mutations near the conserved copper-binding motif (CXXXC), including the common pathogenic variant E140K and a novel change D135G. In addition, each patient carries a second mutation located at the same loop region, resulting in compound heterozygote changes E140K/P169T and D135G/R171Q. Patient fibroblasts showed reduced levels of SCO2, decreased copper levels and COX deficiency. Given that another Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease gene, ATP7A, is a known copper transporter, our findings further underline the relevance of copper metabolism in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
- Subjects
COPPER binding proteins; CYTOCHROME oxidase; POLYNEUROPATHIES; ORAL diseases; COPPER deficiency; PATIENTS; COPPER metabolism; CHARCOT-Marie-Tooth disease; COPPER; GENETIC mutation; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; GENETIC carriers; MITOCHONDRIAL encephalomyopathies; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2018, Vol 141, Issue 3, p662
- ISSN
0006-8950
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/brain/awx369