Distinct pathogenetic mechanisms for PHOX2B associated polyalanine expansions and frameshift mutations in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

T Bachetti, I Matera, S Borghini, MD Duca… - Human molecular …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare neurocristopathy
characterized by absence of adequate autonomic control of respiration with decreased …

Transcriptional dysregulation and impairment of PHOX2B auto-regulatory mechanism induced by polyalanine expansion mutations associated with congenital central …

S Di Lascio, T Bachetti, E Saba, I Ceccherini… - Neurobiology of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The PHOX2B transcription factor plays a crucial role in autonomic nervous system
development. In humans, heterozygous mutations of the PHOX2B gene lead to congenital …

Structural and functional differences in PHOX2B frameshift mutations underlie isolated or syndromic congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

S Di Lascio, R Benfante, E Di Zanni, S Cardani… - Human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Heterozygous mutations in the PHOX2B gene are causative of congenital central
hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a neurocristopathy characterized by defective autonomic …

Low amounts of PHOX2B expanded alleles in asymptomatic parents suggest unsuspected recurrence risk in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

T Bachetti, S Parodi, M Di Duca, G Santamaria… - Journal of molecular …, 2011 - Springer
Heterozygous trinucleotide in frame duplications, leading to expansions of variable lengths
of a 20-alanine stretch (polyAla), is the most frequent PHOX2B variant associated with …

Parental origin and somatic mosaicism of PHOX2B mutations in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

S Parodi, T Bachetti, F Lantieri, MD Duca… - Human …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Heterozygous polyalanine repeat expansions of PHOX2B have been associated with
Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, a rare neurocristopathy characterized by …

[HTML][HTML] Alanine expansions associated with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome impair PHOX2B homeodomain-mediated dimerization and nuclear import

S Di Lascio, D Belperio, R Benfante… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
Heterozygous mutations of the human PHOX2B gene, a key regulator of autonomic nervous
system development, lead to congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a …

Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

N Ramanantsoa, J Gallego - Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is characterized by hypoventilation
during sleep and impaired ventilatory responses to hypercapnia and hypoxemia. Most cases …

In vitro drug treatments reduce the deleterious effects of aggregates containing polyAla expanded PHOX2B proteins

E Di Zanni, T Bachetti, S Parodi, P Bocca… - Neurobiology of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Heterozygous in frame duplications of the PHOX2B gene, leading to polyalanine (polyAla)
expansions ranging from+ 5 to+ 13 residues of a 20-alanine stretch, have been identified in …

[HTML][HTML] Research advances on therapeutic approaches to congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS)

S Di Lascio, R Benfante, S Cardani… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a genetic disorder of
neurodevelopment, with an autosomal dominant transmission, caused by heterozygous …

[HTML][HTML] Inheritance of polyalanine expansion mutation of PHOX2B in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

T Meguro, Y Yoshida, M Hayashi, K Toyota… - Journal of human …, 2012 - nature.com
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS; MIM 209880) is caused mostly by
dominant alanine expansion (most prevalent is 7-alanine expansion) mutations in PHOX2B …