Trichothiodystrophy: from basic mechanisms to clinical implications
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Trichothiodystrophy: from basic mechanisms to clinical implications
Abstract
Trichothiodystrophy (TTD) is an autosomal recessive disorder with symptoms affecting several tissues and organs. The most relevant features are hair abnormalities, physical and mental retardation, ichthyosis, signs of premature aging and cutaneous photosensitivity. The clinical spectrum of TTD varies widely from patients with only brittle, fragile hair to patients with the most severe neuroectodermal symptoms. To date, four genes have been identified as responsible for TTD: XPD, XPB, p8/TTDA, and TTDN1. Whereas the function of TTDN1 is still unknown, the former three genes encode subunits of TFIIH, the multiprotein complex involved in basal and activated transcription and in nucleotide excision repair (NER). Ongoing investigations on TTD are elucidating not only the pathogenesis of the disease, which appears to be mainly related to transcriptional impairment, but also the modalities of NER and transcription in human cells and how TFIIH operates in these two fundamental cellular processes.
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