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Brain somatic mutations in MTOR reveal translational dysregulations underlying intractable focal epilepsy

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Authors

Kim, Jang Keun; Cho, Jun; Kim, Se Hoon; Kang, Hoon-Chul; Kim, Dong-Seok; Kim, V. Narry; Lee, Jeong Ho

Issue Date
2019-10-01
Publisher
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Citation
Journal of Clinical Investigation, Vol.129 No.10, pp.4207-4223
Abstract
Brain somatic mutations confer genomic diversity in the human brain and cause neurodevelopmental disorders. Recently, brain somatic activating mutations in MTOR have been identified as a major etiology of intractable epilepsy in patients with cortical malformations. However, the molecular genetic mechanism of how brain somatic mutations in MTOR cause intractable epilepsy has remained elusive. In this study, translational profiling of intractable epilepsy mouse models with brain somatic mutations and genome-edited cells revealed a novel translational dysregulation mechanism and mTOR activation-sensitive targets mediated by human MTOR mutations that lead to intractable epilepsy with cortical malformation. These mTOR targets were found to be regulated by novel mTOR-responsive 5'-UTR motifs, distinct from known mTOR inhibition-sensitive targets regulated by 5' terminal oligopyrimidine motifs. Novel mTOR target genes were validated in patient brain tissues, and the mTOR downstream effector eIF4E was identified as a new therapeutic target in intractable epilepsy via pharmacological or genetic inhibition. We show that metformin, an FDA-approved eIF4E inhibitor, suppresses intractable epilepsy. Altogether, the present study describes translational dysregulation resulting from brain somatic mutations in MTOR, as well as the pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets of intractable epilepsy.
ISSN
0021-9738
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/171911
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI127032
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