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Human Molecular Genetics, 2004, Vol. 13, No. 16 1703-1714
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh191
Human Molecular Genetics, Vol. 13, No. 16 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Connexin30 mutations responsible for hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia cause abnormal hemichannel activity

Guilherme Munhoz Essenfelder1,2, Roberto Bruzzone3,4, Jérôme Lamartine1,2, Anne Charollais5, Claudine Blanchet-Bardon6, Michael T. Barbe4, Paolo Meda5 and Gilles Waksman1,2,*

1Service de Génomique Fonctionnelle, CEA-Evry, 91057 Evry, France, 2EA2541, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, 91025 Evry, France, 3Department of Neuroscience, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France, 4Department of Clinical Neurobiology, IZN, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, 5Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, CMU, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland and 6Department of Dermatology, CHU Saint Louis, 75010 Paris, France

Received March 16, 2004; Revised May 18, 2004; Accepted June 11, 2004

Clouston syndrome or hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) is a rare dominant genodermatosis characterized by palmoplantar hyperkeratosis, generalized alopecia and nail defects. The disease is caused by mutations in the human GJB6 gene which encodes the gap junction protein connexin30 (Cx30). To gain insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying HED, we have analyzed the consequences of two of these mutations (G11R Cx30 and A88V Cx30) on the functional properties of the connexons they form. Here, we show that the distribution of Cx30 is similar in affected palmoplantar skin and in normal epidermis. We further demonstrate that the presence of the wild-type protein (wt Cx30) improves the trafficking of mutated Cx30 to the plasma membrane where both G11R and A88V Cx30 co-localize with wt Cx30 and form functional intercellular channels. The electrophysiological properties of channels made of G11R and A88V Cx30 differ slightly from those of wt Cx30 but allow for dye transfer between transfected HeLa cells. Finally, we document a gain of function of G11R and A88V Cx30, which form functional hemichannels at the cell surface and, when expressed in HeLa cells, generate a leakage of ATP into the extracellular medium. Such increased ATP levels might act as a paracrine messenger that, by altering the epidermal factors which control the proliferation and differentiation of keratinocytes, may play an important role in the pathophysiological processes leading to the HED phenotype.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Service de Génomique Fonctionnelle, 2 Rue Gaston Cremieux, CEA-Evry, 91057 Evry, France. Tel: +33 160873483; Fax: +33 160873498; Email: gilles.waksman{at}cea.fr


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