KCTD1/KCTD15 complexes control ectodermal and neural crest cell functions, and their impairment causes aplasia cutis

JR Raymundo, H Zhang, G Smaldone… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) is a congenital epidermal defect of the midline scalp and has
been proposed to be due to a primary keratinocyte abnormality. Why it forms mainly at this …

Aplasia cutis congenita pathomechanisms reveal key regulators of skin and skin appendage morphogenesis

AG Marneros - Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2024 - Elsevier
Aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) manifests at birth as a defect of the scalp skin. New findings
answer 2 longstanding questions: why ACC forms and why it affects mainly the midline scalp …

BTB domain mutations perturbing KCTD15 oligomerisation cause a distinctive frontonasal dysplasia syndrome

KA Miller, DAC Walma, DM Pinkas, RS Tooze… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - jmg.bmj.com
Introduction KCTD15 encodes an oligomeric BTB domain protein reported to inhibit neural
crest formation through repression of Wnt/beta-catenin signalling, as well as transactivation …

Mutations in KCTD1 cause scalp-ear-nipple syndrome

AG Marneros, AE Beck, EH Turner, MJ McMillin… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Scalp-ear-nipple (SEN) syndrome is a rare, autosomal-dominant disorder characterized by
cutis aplasia of the scalp; minor anomalies of the external ears, digits, and nails; and …

Molecular basis of the scalp-ear-nipple syndrome unraveled by the characterization of disease-causing KCTD1 mutants

G Smaldone, N Balasco, L Pirone, D Caruso… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The scalp-ear-nipple (SEN) syndrome is an autosomal-dominant disorder characterized by
cutis aplasia of the scalp and malformations of breast, external ears, digits, and nails …

Generation and characterization of Kctd15 mutations in zebrafish

A Heffer, GD Marquart, A Aquilina-Beck, N Saleem… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Potassium channel tetramerization domain containing 15 (Kctd15) was previously found to
have a role in early neural crest (NC) patterning, specifically delimiting the region where NC …

Protein partners of KCTD proteins provide insights about their functional roles in cell differentiation and vertebrate development

M Skoblov, A Marakhonov, E Marakasova… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The KCTD family includes tetramerization (T1) domain containing proteins with diverse
biological effects. We identified a novel member of the KCTD family, BTBD10. A …

KCTD7 deficiency defines a distinct neurodegenerative disorder with a conserved autophagy‐lysosome defect

KA Metz, X Teng, I Coppens, HM Lamb… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Several small case series identified KCTD7 mutations in patients with a rare
autosomal recessive disorder designated progressive myoclonic epilepsy (EPM3) and …

KCTD: A new gene family involved in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders

X Teng, A Aouacheria, L Lionnard… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The underlying molecular basis for neurodevelopmental or neuropsychiatric disorders is not
known. In contrast, mechanistic understanding of other brain disorders including …

Kctd13 deletion reduces synaptic transmission via increased RhoA

CO Escamilla, I Filonova, AK Walker, ZX Xuan… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Copy-number variants of chromosome 16 region 16p11. 2 are linked to neuropsychiatric
disorders,,,,, and are among the most prevalent in autism spectrum disorders,,. Of many …