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PSEN1

Chr 14q24.2

presenilin 1

Aliases:
FAD, S182, PS1, PS-1, PSNL1
MANE:
ENST00000324501.10

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • COVID-19 research

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Early onset dementia (encompassing fronto-temporal dementia and prion disease)

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial hidradenitis suppurativa

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Rare genetic inflammatory skin disorders

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Alzheimer disease 3

    0.84
  • acne inversa, familial, 3

    0.73
  • Pick disease

    0.71
  • frontotemporal dementia

    0.70
  • early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease

    0.69
  • semantic dementia

    0.66
  • dilated cardiomyopathy 1U

    0.62
  • Alzheimer disease

    0.61
  • hidradenitis suppurativa

    0.52
  • familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy

    0.51

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Presenilin-1

Catalytic subunit of the gamma-secretase complex, an endoprotease complex that catalyzes the intramembrane cleavage of integral membrane proteins such as Notch receptors and APP (amyloid-beta precursor protein) (PubMed:10206644, PubMed:10545183, PubMed:10593990, PubMed:10811883, PubMed:10899933, PubMed:12679784, PubMed:12740439, PubMed:15274632, PubMed:20460383, PubMed:25043039, PubMed:26280335, PubMed:28269784, PubMed:30598546, PubMed:30630874). Requires the presence of the other members of the gamma-secretase complex for protease activity (PubMed:15274632, PubMed:25043039, PubMed:26280335, PubMed:30598546, PubMed:30630874). Plays a role in Notch and Wnt signaling cascades and regulation of downstream processes via its role in processing key regulatory proteins, and by regulating cytosolic CTNNB1 levels (PubMed:10593990, PubMed:10811883, PubMed:10899933, PubMed:9738936). Stimulates cell-cell adhesion via its interaction with CDH1; this stabilizes the complexes between CDH1 (E-cadherin) and its interaction partners CTNNB1 (beta-catenin), CTNND1 and JUP (gamma-catenin) (PubMed:11953314). Under conditions of apoptosis or calcium influx, cleaves CDH1 (PubMed:11953314). This promotes the disassembly of the complexes between CDH1 and CTNND1, JUP and CTNNB1, increases the pool of cytoplasmic CTNNB1, and thereby negatively regulates Wnt signaling (PubMed:11953314, PubMed:9738936). Required for normal embryonic brain and skeleton development, and for normal angiogenesis (By similarity). Mediates the proteolytic cleavage of EphB2/CTF1 into EphB2/CTF2 (PubMed:17428795, PubMed:28269784). The holoprotein functions as a calcium-leak channel that allows the passive movement of calcium from endoplasmic reticulum to cytosol and is therefore involved in calcium homeostasis (PubMed:16959576, PubMed:25394380). Involved in the regulation of neurite outgrowth (PubMed:15004326, PubMed:20460383). Is a regulator of presynaptic facilitation, spike transmission and synaptic vesicles replenishment in a process that depends on gamma-secretase activity. It acts through the control of SYT7 presynaptic expression (By similarity)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list PSEN1 among their top associated genes.

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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