C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Proteins in Brain Development, Neurodevelopmental, and Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Systematic Literature-Based Analysis

N Al-Naama, R Mackeh, T Kino - Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are multifaceted pathologic conditions manifested
with intellectual disability, autistic features, psychiatric problems, motor dysfunction, and/or …

Human sex-determination and disorders of sex-development (DSD)

A Bashamboo, K McElreavey - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Several new genes and pathways have been identified in recent years associated with
human errors of sex-determination or DSD. SOX family gene mutations, as well as mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Structure, mechanism, and inhibition of Hedgehog acyltransferase

CE Coupland, SA Andrei, TB Ansell, L Carrique… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary The Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) morphogen pathway is fundamental for embryonic
development and stem cell maintenance and is implicated in various cancers. A key step in …

Histone lysine methylation and neurodevelopmental disorders

JH Kim, JH Lee, IS Lee, SB Lee, KS Cho - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Methylation of several lysine residues of histones is a crucial mechanism for relatively long-
term regulation of genomic activity. Recent molecular biological studies have demonstrated …

Biallelic variants in ZNF142 lead to a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder

MB Christensen, AM Levy, NA Mohammadi… - Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biallelic variants of the gene encoding for the zinc‐finger protein 142 (ZNF142) have
recently been associated with intellectual disability (ID), speech impairment, seizures, and …

HERC1 mutations in idiopathic intellectual disability

GE Utine, EZ Taşkıran, C Koşukcu… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
HERC1 is a member of HERC protein family of ubiquitin ligases and is a negative regulator
of the mTOR pathway. It is also a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for ARF and Rab …

Palmitoylation of Hedgehog proteins by Hedgehog acyltransferase: roles in signalling and disease

MD Resh - Open Biology, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hedgehog acyltransferase (Hhat), a member of the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase
(MBOAT) family, catalyses the covalent attachment of palmitate to the N-terminus of …

Mutation spectra of histone methyltransferases with canonical SET domains and EZH2-targeted therapy

M Katoh - Epigenomics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Germline mutations in canonical SET-methyltransferases have been identified in autism and
intellectual disability syndromes and gain-of-function somatic alterations in EZH2, MLL3 …

Biallelic novel missense HHAT variant causes syndromic microcephaly and cerebellar‐vermis hypoplasia

GMH Abdel‐Salam, I Mazen, M Eid… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report two siblings with microcephaly, early infantile onset seizures, and cerebellar
vermis hypoplasia, in whom whole exome sequencing revealed a novel homozygous …

The disease-associated proteins Drosophila Nab2 and Ataxin-2 interact with shared RNAs and coregulate neuronal morphology

JC Rounds, EB Corgiat, C Ye, JA Behnke, SM Kelly… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Nab2 encodes the Drosophila melanogaster member of a conserved family of zinc finger
polyadenosine RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) linked to multiple steps in post-transcriptional …