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SLC37A4-CDG: Mislocalization of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter to the Golgi causes a new congenital disorder of glycosylation

  • Mol Genet Metab Rep. 2020 Aug 21;25:100636. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2020.100636.
Thorsten Marquardt 1 Vladimir Bzduch 2 Max Hogrebe 1 Stephan Rust 1 Janine Reunert 1 Marianne Grüneberg 1 Julien Park 1 Nico Callewaert 3 Robin Lachmann 4 Yoshinao Wada 5 Thomas Engel 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 University Children's Hospital Münster, Department of General Pediatrics, Münster, Germany.
  • 2 Comenius University, National Institute of Children's Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Limbová 1, 83340 Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • 3 Medical Biotechnology lab, Center for Medical Biotechnology, Technologiepark 71, B-9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
  • 4 Charles Dent Metabolic Unit Box 92, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
  • 5 Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Abstract

Loss-of-function of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter is caused by biallelic mutations in SLC37A4 and leads to glycogen storage disease Ib. Here we describe a second disease caused by a single dominant mutation in the same gene. The mutation abolishes the ER retention signal of the transporter and generates a weak Golgi retention signal. Intracellular mislocalization of the transporter leads to a congenital disorder of glycosylation instead of glycogen storage disease.

Keywords

CDG; Glycogen storage disease; Glycosylation; SLC37A4.

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