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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2011

Deficiency of the cytoskeletal protein SPECC1L leads to oblique facial clefting.

Irfan Saadi, Fowzan S Alkuraya, Stephen S Gisselbrecht, Wolfram Goessling, Resy Cavallesco, Annick Turbe-Doan, Aline L Petrin, James Harris, Ursela Siddiqui, Arthur W Grix and 8 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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18 authors.

Irfan SaadiDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. maas@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Fowzan S Alkuraya
Stephen S Gisselbrecht
Wolfram Goessling
Resy Cavallesco
Annick Turbe-Doan
Aline L Petrin
James Harris
Ursela Siddiqui
Arthur W Grix
Hanne D Hove
Philippe Leboulch
Thomas W Glover
Cynthia C Morton
Antonio Richieri-Costa
Jeffrey C Murray
Robert P Erickson
Richard L Maas

Funding

RAPID GENE DISCOVERYP01GM061354 · NIGMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MORTON, CYNTHIA CASSON · 2001 to 2019
$24.3M
Molecular Genetic Epidemiology of Cleft Lip and PalateR37DE008559 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI MURRAY, JEFFREY C · 2004 to 2013
$6.8M
Discovering Human Birth Defect Genes from Chromosomal RearrangementsR01HD060050 · NICHD · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MAAS, RICHARD L · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
Cell selection strategies for the gene therapy of the beta-hemoglobinopathiesR01HL090921 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEBOULCH, PHILIPPE · 2008 to 2011
$1.7M
MOLECULAR GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CLEFT LIP AND PALATER01DE008559 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI MURRAY, JEFFREY C · 1988 to 2003
$1.5M
CIHRNHLBI NIH HHS HL090921NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL090921NICHD NIH HHS HD060050NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD060050NIDCR NIH HHS DE08559NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE008559NIDCR NIH HHS R37 DE008559NIGMS NIH HHS GM061354NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM061354
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic mutations responsible for oblique facial clefts (ObFC), a unique class of facial malformations, are largely unknown. We show that loss-of-function mutations in SPECC1L are pathogenic for this human developmental disorder and that SPECC1L is a critical organizer of vertebrate facial morphogenesis. During murine embryogenesis, Specc1l is expressed in cell populations of the developing facial primordial, which proliferate and fuse to form the face. In zebrafish, knockdown of a SPECC1L homolog produces a faceless phenotype with loss of jaw and facial structures, and knockdown in Drosophila phenocopies mutants in the integrin signaling pathway that exhibit cell-migration and -adhesion defects. Furthermore, in mammalian cells, SPECC1L colocalizes with both tubulin and actin, and its deficiency results in defective actin-cytoskeleton reorganization, as well as abnormal cell adhesion and migration. Collectively, these data demonstrate that SPECC1L functions in actin-cytoskeleton reorganization and is required for proper facial morphogenesis.

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ActinsAnimalsCalponinsCell AdhesionCell LineCell MovementCell ProliferationCleft PalateCraniofacial DysostosisCytoskeletal ProteinsDrosophilaEye AbnormalitiesFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Knockdown TechniquesHumansActinsCalponinsCytoskeletal ProteinsPhosphoproteinsSPECC1L protein, humanTubulinWnt Proteins

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PMID21703590
PMCPMC3135813

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