TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of all 34 exons of the SPINK5 gene in Japanese atopic dermatitis patients
AU - Morizane, Shin
AU - Ouchida, Mamoru
AU - Sunagawa, Ko
AU - Sugimoto, Saeko
AU - Kobashi, Mina
AU - Sugihara, Satoru
AU - Nomura, Hayato
AU - Tsuji, Kazuhide
AU - Sato, Atsushi
AU - Miura, Yoshihiro
AU - Hattori, Hiroaki
AU - Tada, Kotaro
AU - Huh, Wook Kang
AU - Seno, Akemi
AU - Iwatsuki, Keiji
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work was financially supported by Daiichi Sanko Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp., and Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by Okayama University Medical School.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Lympho-epithelial Kazal-type-related inhibitor (LEKTI) is a large multidomain serine protease inhibitor that is expressed in epidermal keratinocytes. Nonsense mutations of the SPINK5 gene, which codes for LEKTI, cause Netherton syndrome, which is characterized by hair abnormality, ichthyosis, and atopy. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of SPINK5, p. K420E, is reported to be associated with the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (AD). We studied all 34 exons of the SPINK5 gene in Japanese 57 AD patients and 50 normal healthy controls. We detected nine nonsynonymous variants, including p. K420E; these variants had already been registered in the SNP database. Among them, p. R654H (n=1) was found as a heterozygous mutation in the AD patients, but not in the control. No new mutation was detected. We next compared the data of the AD patients with data from the Human Genetic Variation Database provided by Kyoto University; a significant difference was found in the frequency of the p. S368N genotype distribution. PolyPhen-2 and SIFT, two algorithms for predicting the functional effects of amino acid substitutions, showed significant scores for p. R654H. Therefore, R654H might be a risk factor for epidermal barrier dysfunction in some Japanese AD patients.
AB - Lympho-epithelial Kazal-type-related inhibitor (LEKTI) is a large multidomain serine protease inhibitor that is expressed in epidermal keratinocytes. Nonsense mutations of the SPINK5 gene, which codes for LEKTI, cause Netherton syndrome, which is characterized by hair abnormality, ichthyosis, and atopy. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of SPINK5, p. K420E, is reported to be associated with the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (AD). We studied all 34 exons of the SPINK5 gene in Japanese 57 AD patients and 50 normal healthy controls. We detected nine nonsynonymous variants, including p. K420E; these variants had already been registered in the SNP database. Among them, p. R654H (n=1) was found as a heterozygous mutation in the AD patients, but not in the control. No new mutation was detected. We next compared the data of the AD patients with data from the Human Genetic Variation Database provided by Kyoto University; a significant difference was found in the frequency of the p. S368N genotype distribution. PolyPhen-2 and SIFT, two algorithms for predicting the functional effects of amino acid substitutions, showed significant scores for p. R654H. Therefore, R654H might be a risk factor for epidermal barrier dysfunction in some Japanese AD patients.
KW - Atopic dermatitis
KW - Epidermal barrier dysfunction
KW - LEKTI
KW - SPINK5
KW - Serine protease inhibitor
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M3 - Article
C2 - 29926005
AN - SCOPUS:85048859127
SN - 0386-300X
VL - 72
SP - 275
EP - 282
JO - Acta medica Okayama
JF - Acta medica Okayama
IS - 3
ER -
