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Background. The Proteus syndrome is characterized by the overgrowth of skin, connective tissue,
brain, and other tissues. It has been hypothesized that the syndrome is caused by somatic mosaicism
for a mutation that is lethal in the nonmosaic state.
Methods. We performed exome sequencing of DNA from biopsy samples obtained from patients
with the Proteus syndrome and compared the resultant DNA sequences with those of unaffected
tissues obtained from the same patients. We confirmed and extended an observed association, using a
custom restriction-enzyme assay to analyze the DNA in 158 samples from 29 patients with the
Proteus syndrome. We then assayed activation of the AKT protein in affected tissues, using
phosphorylation-specific antibodies on Western blots.
Results. Of 29 patients with the Proteus syndrome, 26 had a somatic activating mutation
(c.49GA, p.Glu17Lys) in the oncogene AKT1, encoding the AKT1 kinase, an enzyme known to
mediate processes such as cell proliferation and apoptosis. Tissues and cell lines from patients with
the Proteus syndrome harbored admixtures of mutant alleles that ranged from 1% to approximately
50%. Mutant cell lines showed greater AKT phosphorylation than did control cell lines. A pair of
single-cell clones that were established from the same starting culture and differed with respect to
their mutation status had different levels of AKT phosphorylation.
Conclusions The Proteus syndrome is caused by a somatic activating mutation in AKT1, proving the
hypothesis of somatic mosaicism and implicating activation of the PI3KAKT pathway in the
characteristic clinical findings of overgrowth and tumor susceptibility in this disorder. (Funded by the
Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute.)
Array comparative genomic hybridisation on first polar bodies suggests that nondisjunction is not the predominant mechanism leading to aneuploidy in humans.
A S Gabriel, A R Thornhill, C S Ottolini, A Gordon, A P C Brown, J Taylor, K Bennett, A Handyside,
D K Griffin.
Discussion. The received wisdom that non-disjunction is the primary mechanism leading to
human aneuploidy should be reconsidered.
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