Yuta Inoue, Naomi Tsuchida, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shimakawa Shuichi, Kei Ohashi, Shinji Saitoh, Atsushi Ogawa, Keisuke Hamada, Masamune Sakamoto, Noriko Miyake, Kohei Hamanaka, Atsushi Fujita, Eriko Koshimizu, Satoko Miyatake, Takeshi Mizuguchi, Kazuhiro Ogata, Yuri Uchiyama, Naomichi Matsumoto
AFF3 at 2q11.2 encodes the nuclear transcriptional activator AF4/FMR2 Family Member 3. AFF3 constitutes super elongation complex like 3, which plays a role in promoting the expression of genes involved in neurogenesis and development. The degron motif in AFF3 with nine highly conserved amino acids is recognized by E3 ubiquitin ligase to induce protein degradation. Recently, AFF3 missense variants in this region and variants featuring deletion including this region were identified and shown to cause KINSSHIP syndrome...
December 28, 2022: Clinical Genetics