Identification and functional analysis of rare HECTD1 missense variants in human neural tube defects

E Oxman, H Li, HY Wang, IE Zohn - Human Genetics, 2024 - Springer
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are severe malformations of the central nervous system that
arise from failure of neural tube closure. HECTD1 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase required for …

[HTML][HTML] The Hectd1 ubiquitin ligase is required for development of the head mesenchyme and neural tube closure

IE Zohn, KV Anderson, L Niswander - Developmental biology, 2007 - Elsevier
Closure of the cranial neural tube depends on normal development of the head
mesenchyme. Homozygous-mutant embryos for the ENU-induced open mind (opm) …

Hectd1 regulates intracellular localization and secretion of Hsp90 to control cellular behavior of the cranial mesenchyme

AA Sarkar, IE Zohn - Journal of Cell Biology, 2012 - rupress.org
Hectd1 mutant mouse embryos exhibit the neural tube defect exencephaly associated with
abnormal cranial mesenchyme. Cellular rearrangements in cranial mesenchyme are …

Hectd1 is essential for embryogenesis in mice

D D'Alonzo, FH Emch, X Shen, E Bruder… - Gene expression …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many aspects of the functional role of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Hectd1 in embryogenesis and
in cell biology still remain to be elucidated. In order to contribute to this task we now report …

[HTML][HTML] Functional validation of CLDN variants identified in a neural tube defect cohort demonstrates their contribution to neural tube defects

AI Baumholtz, P De Marco, V Capra… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are severe malformations of the central nervous system that
affect 1–2 individuals per 2,000 births. Their etiology is complex and involves both genetic …

KCTD10 regulates brain development by destabilizing brain disorder–associated protein KCTD13

J Cheng, Z Wang, M Tang, W Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
KCTD10 belongs to the KCTD (potassiumchannel tetramerization domain) family, many
members of which are associated with neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the biological …

An updated catalog of CTCF variants associated with neurodevelopmental disorder phenotypes

E Price, LM Fedida, EM Pugacheva, YJ Ji… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction CTCF-related disorder (CRD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) caused
by monoallelic pathogenic variants in CTCF. The first CTCF variants in CRD cases were …

Double whammy: the genetic variants in CECR2 and high Hcy on the development of neural tube defects

B Bai, Q Jiang, L Liu, C Liu, Q Zhang - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are serious congenital malformations. The etiology
of NTDs involves both genetic and environmental factors. Loss of CECR2 in mice has been …

Association between rare variants in specific functional pathways and human neural tube defects multiple subphenotypes

J Zou, F Wang, X Yang, H Wang, L Niswander… - Neural …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Neural tube defects (NTDs) are failure of neural tube closure, which
includes multiple central nervous system phenotypes. More than 300 mouse mutant strains …

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 …