Marialetizia Motta, Maja Solman, Adeline A Bonnard, Alma Kuechler, Francesca Pantaleoni, Manuela Priolo, Balasubramanian Chandramouli, Simona Coppola, Simone Pizzi, Erika Zara, Marco Ferilli, Hülya Kayserili, Roberta Onesimo, Chiara Leoni, Julia Brinkmann, Yoann Vial, Susanne B Kamphausen, Cécile Thomas-Teinturier, Anne Guimier, Viviana Cordeddu, Laura Mazzanti, Giuseppe Zampino, Giovanni Chillemi, Martin Zenker, Hélène Cavé, Jeroen den Hertog, Marco Tartaglia
We previously molecularly and clinically characterized Mazzanti syndrome, a RASopathy related to Noonan syndrome that is mostly caused by a single recurrent missense variant (c.4A > G, p.Ser2Gly) in SHOC2, which encodes a leucine-rich repeat-containing protein facilitating signal flow through the RAS-mitogen-associated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. We also documented that the pathogenic p.Ser2Gly substitution causes upregulation of MAPK signaling and constitutive targeting of SHOC2 to the plasma membrane due to the introduction of an N-myristoylation recognition motif...
August 23, 2022: Human Molecular Genetics