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Structural highlights

Disease

MEFV_HUMAN Defects in MEFV are the cause of familial Mediterranean fever autosomal recessive (ARFMF) [MIM:249100. ARFMF is an inherited disorder characterized by recurrent episodic fever, serosal inflammation and pain in the abdomen, chest or joints. ARFMF is frequently complicated by amyloidosis, which leads to renal failure and can be prophylactically treated with colchicine. ARFMF primarily affects ancestral ethnic groups living around the Mediterranean basin: North African Jews, Armenians, Arabs and Turks. The disease is also distributed in other populations including Greeks, Cypriots, Italians and Spanish, although at a lower prevalence.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]} Defects in MEFV are the cause of familial Mediterranean fever autosomal dominant (ADFMF) [MIM:134610. ADFMF is characterized by periodic fever, serosal inflammation and pain in the abdomen, chest or joints as seen also in the autosomal recessive form of the disease. It is associated with renal amyloidosis and characterized by colchicine unresponsiveness.

Function

MEFV_HUMAN Probably controls the inflammatory response in myelomonocytic cells at the level of the cytoskeleton organization.^{[16] [17]}

References

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2. ↑ . A candidate gene for familial Mediterranean fever. Nat Genet. 1997 Sep;17(1):25-31. PMID:9288094 doi:10.1038/ng0997-25
3. ↑ Timmann C, Muntau B, Kuhne K, Gelhaus A, Horstmann RD. Two novel mutations R653H and E230K in the Mediterranean fever gene associated with disease. Mutat Res. 2001 Aug 8;479(1-2):235-9. PMID:11470495
4. ↑ Notarnicola C, Didelot MN, Kone-Paut I, Seguret F, Demaille J, Touitou I. Reduced MEFV messenger RNA expression in patients with familial Mediterranean fever. Arthritis Rheum. 2002 Oct;46(10):2785-93. PMID:12384939 doi:10.1002/art.10575
5. ↑ Bernot A, da Silva C, Petit JL, Cruaud C, Caloustian C, Castet V, Ahmed-Arab M, Dross C, Dupont M, Cattan D, Smaoui N, Dode C, Pecheux C, Nedelec B, Medaxian J, Rozenbaum M, Rosner I, Delpech M, Grateau G, Demaille J, Weissenbach J, Touitou I. Non-founder mutations in the MEFV gene establish this gene as the cause of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Hum Mol Genet. 1998 Aug;7(8):1317-25. PMID:9668175
6. ↑ Booth DR, Gillmore JD, Booth SE, Pepys MB, Hawkins PN. Pyrin/marenostrin mutations in familial Mediterranean fever. QJM. 1998 Sep;91(9):603-6. PMID:10024914
7. ↑ Aksentijevich I, Torosyan Y, Samuels J, Centola M, Pras E, Chae JJ, Oddoux C, Wood G, Azzaro MP, Palumbo G, Giustolisi R, Pras M, Ostrer H, Kastner DL. Mutation and haplotype studies of familial Mediterranean fever reveal new ancestral relationships and evidence for a high carrier frequency with reduced penetrance in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. Am J Hum Genet. 1999 Apr;64(4):949-62. PMID:10090880
8. ↑ Cazeneuve C, Sarkisian T, Pecheux C, Dervichian M, Nedelec B, Reinert P, Ayvazyan A, Kouyoumdjian JC, Ajrapetyan H, Delpech M, Goossens M, Dode C, Grateau G, Amselem S. MEFV-Gene analysis in armenian patients with Familial Mediterranean fever: diagnostic value and unfavorable renal prognosis of the M694V homozygous genotype-genetic and therapeutic implications. Am J Hum Genet. 1999 Jul;65(1):88-97. PMID:10364520 doi:S0002-9297(07)63731-8
9. ↑ Shohat M, Magal N, Shohat T, Chen X, Dagan T, Mimouni A, Danon Y, Lotan R, Ogur G, Sirin A, Schlezinger M, Halpern GJ, Schwabe A, Kastner D, Rotter JI, Fischel-Ghodsian N. Phenotype-genotype correlation in familial Mediterranean fever: evidence for an association between Met694Val and amyloidosis. Eur J Hum Genet. 1999 Apr;7(3):287-92. PMID:10234504 doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200303
10. ↑ Akar N, Misiroglu M, Yalcinkaya F, Akar E, Cakar N, Tumer N, Akcakus M, Tastan H, Matzner Y. MEFV mutations in Turkish patients suffering from Familial Mediterranean Fever. Hum Mutat. 2000 Jan;15(1):118-9. PMID:10612841 doi:<118::AID-HUMU29>3.0.CO;2-5 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(200001)15:1<118::AID-HUMU29>3.0.CO;2-5
11. ↑ Domingo C, Touitou I, Bayou A, Ozen S, Notarnicola C, Dewalle M, Demaille J, Buades R, Sayadat C, Levy M, Ben-Chetrit E. Familial Mediterranean fever in the 'Chuetas' of Mallorca: a question of Jewish origin or genetic heterogeneity. Eur J Hum Genet. 2000 Apr;8(4):242-6. PMID:10854105 doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200462
12. ↑ Dode C, Pecheux C, Cazeneuve C, Cattan D, Dervichian M, Goossens M, Delpech M, Amselem S, Grateau G. Mutations in the MEFV gene in a large series of patients with a clinical diagnosis of familial Mediterranean fever. Am J Med Genet. 2000 Jun 5;92(4):241-6. PMID:10842288
13. ↑ Aldea A, Calafell F, Arostegui JI, Lao O, Rius J, Plaza S, Maso M, Vives J, Buades J, Yague J. The west side story: MEFV haplotype in Spanish FMF patients and controls, and evidence of high LD and a recombination "hot-spot" at the MEFV locus. Hum Mutat. 2004 Apr;23(4):399. PMID:15024744 doi:10.1002/humu.9229
14. ↑ Medlej-Hashim M, Serre JL, Corbani S, Saab O, Jalkh N, Delague V, Chouery E, Salem N, Loiselet J, Lefranc G, Megarbane A. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) in Lebanon and Jordan: a population genetics study and report of three novel mutations. Eur J Med Genet. 2005 Oct-Dec;48(4):412-20. Epub 2005 Jun 20. PMID:16378925 doi:S1769-7212(05)00104-7
15. ↑ Goulielmos GN, Fragouli E, Aksentijevich I, Sidiropoulos P, Boumpas DT, Eliopoulos E. Mutational analysis of the PRYSPRY domain of pyrin and implications for familial mediterranean fever (FMF). Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 Jul 14;345(4):1326-32. Epub 2006 May 15. PMID:16730661 doi:S0006-291X(06)01029-1
16. ↑ Centola M, Wood G, Frucht DM, Galon J, Aringer M, Farrell C, Kingma DW, Horwitz ME, Mansfield E, Holland SM, O'Shea JJ, Rosenberg HF, Malech HL, Kastner DL. The gene for familial Mediterranean fever, MEFV, is expressed in early leukocyte development and is regulated in response to inflammatory mediators. Blood. 2000 May 15;95(10):3223-31. PMID:10807793
17. ↑ Mansfield E, Chae JJ, Komarow HD, Brotz TM, Frucht DM, Aksentijevich I, Kastner DL. The familial Mediterranean fever protein, pyrin, associates with microtubules and colocalizes with actin filaments. Blood. 2001 Aug 1;98(3):851-9. PMID:11468188