Natural variation in a glucuronosyltransferase modulates propionate sensitivity in a C. elegans propionic acidemia model

English version

Autoři: Huimin Na ^aff001; Stefan Zdraljevic ^aff002; Robyn E. Tanny ^aff002; Albertha J. M. Walhout ^aff001; Erik C. Andersen ^aff002
Působiště autorů: Program in Systems Biology and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America ^aff001; Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America ^aff002
Vyšlo v časopise: Natural variation in a glucuronosyltransferase modulates propionate sensitivity in a C. elegans propionic acidemia model. PLoS Genet 16(8): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008984
Kategorie: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008984

Souhrn

Mutations in human metabolic genes can lead to rare diseases known as inborn errors of human metabolism. For instance, patients with loss-of-function mutations in either subunit of propionyl-CoA carboxylase suffer from propionic acidemia because they cannot catabolize propionate, leading to its harmful accumulation. Both the penetrance and expressivity of metabolic disorders can be modulated by genetic background. However, modifiers of these diseases are difficult to identify because of the lack of statistical power for rare diseases in human genetics. Here, we use a model of propionic acidemia in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to identify genetic modifiers of propionate sensitivity. Using genome-wide association (GWA) mapping across wild strains, we identify several genomic regions correlated with reduced propionate sensitivity. We find that natural variation in the putative glucuronosyltransferase GLCT-3, a homolog of human B3GAT, partly explains differences in propionate sensitivity in one of these genomic intervals. We demonstrate that loss-of-function alleles in glct-3 render the animals less sensitive to propionate. Additionally, we find that C. elegans has an expansion of the glct gene family, suggesting that the number of members of this family could influence sensitivity to excess propionate. Our findings demonstrate that natural variation in genes that are not directly associated with propionate breakdown can modulate propionate sensitivity. Our study provides a framework for using C. elegans to characterize the contributions of genetic background in models of human inborn errors in metabolism.

Klíčová slova:

Caenorhabditis elegans – Genome-wide association studies – Genomics – Heredity – Chromosome mapping – Propionates – Quantitative trait loci – Inborn errors of metabolism

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