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- Title
Williams-Beuren syndrome TRIM50 encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase.
- Authors
Micale, Lucia; Fusco, Carmela; Augello, Bartolomeo; Napolitano, Luisa M R; Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T; Meroni, Germana; Merla, Giuseppe; Reymond, Alexandre
- Abstract
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a neurodevelopmental and multisystemic disease that results from hemizygosity of approximately 25 genes mapping to chromosomal region 7q11.23. We report here the preliminary description of eight novel genes mapping within the WBS critical region and/or its syntenic mouse region. Three of these genes, TRIM50, TRIM73 and TRIM74, belong to the TRIpartite motif gene family, members of which were shown to be associated to several human genetic diseases. We describe the preliminary functional characterization of these genes and show that Trim50 encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase, opening the interesting hypothesis that the ubiquitin-mediated proteasome pathway might be involved in the WBS phenotype.
- Publication
European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 2008, Vol 16, Issue 9, p1038
- ISSN
1018-4813
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ejhg.2008.68