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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M601881200 on March 16, 2006

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 19, 13382-13387, May 12, 2006
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GLUT1 Deficiency Links Nutrient Availability and Apoptosis during Embryonic Development*Formula

Penny J. Jensen, Jonathan D. Gitlin, and Mary O. Carayannopoulos1

From the Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

GLUT1 is essential for human brain development and function, as evidenced by the severe epileptic encephalopathy observed in children with GLUT1 deficiency syndrome resulting from inherited loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding this facilitative glucose transporter. To further elucidate the pathophysiology of this disorder, the zebrafish orthologue of human GLUT1 was identified, and expression of this gene was abrogated during early embryonic development, resulting in a phenotype of aberrant brain organogenesis consistent with the observed expression of Glut1 in the embryonic tectum and specifically rescued by human GLUT1 mRNA. Affected embryos displayed impaired glucose uptake concomitant with increased neural cell apoptosis and subsequent ventricle enlargement, trigeminal ganglion cell loss, and abnormal hindbrain architecture. Strikingly, inhibiting expression of the zebrafish orthologue of the proapoptotic protein Bad resulted in complete rescue of this phenotype, and this occurred even in the absence of restoration of apparent glucose uptake. Taken together, these studies describe a tractable system for elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of Glut1 deficiency and provide compelling in vivo genetic evidence directly linking nutrient availability and activation of mitochondria-dependent apoptotic mechanisms during embryonic brain development.


Received for publication, February 27, 2006 , and in revised form, March 15, 2006.

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) DQ152824 [GenBank] .

* Supported by National Institutes of Health Grants HD01459 (to M. O. C.), DK44464, and HD39952 (to J. D. G.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

Formula The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains supplemental Table S1 and Figs. S1-S7.

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed: McDonnell Pediatric Research Bldg., 660 South Euclid Ave., Campus Box 8208, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110. Tel.: 314-286-2764; Fax: 314-286-2784; E-mail: carayannopoulos{at}kids.wustl.edu.


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