| 2008 |
GLB1 pre-mRNA undergoes alternative splicing regulated by SR proteins and the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway, generating two functional transcripts: the full-length lysosomal β-galactosidase (β-gal) mRNA (all 16 exons) and the elastin-binding protein (EBP) mRNA (skipping exons 3, 4, 6 with exon 5 in a different reading frame). Overexpression of different SR proteins altered the relative proportions of these transcripts in a minigene system, indicating SR proteins as regulators of this alternative splicing event. |
Minigene splicing assay, cycloheximide-NMD inhibition, SR protein overexpression in HeLa cells and human fibroblasts |
BMC research notes |
Medium |
19114006
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| 2011 |
An alternatively spliced form of GLB1 is expressed on the surface of human choroidal endothelial cells and functions as a receptor for elastin-derived peptides (EDPs). Inhibition of this receptor blocked EDP-induced migration of choroidal endothelial cells, establishing GLB1 as the functional EDP receptor in this context. |
RT-PCR for receptor identification, cell migration assay with receptor inhibitors, in vivo mouse EDP injection with electroretinography and microarray |
Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology |
Medium |
22178079
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| 2007 |
GLB1-encoded β-galactosidase, on reaching the endosomal-lysosomal compartment, associates with protective protein/cathepsin A (PPCA) and neuraminidase to form the lysosomal multienzyme complex (LMC). Coimmunoprecipitation and Western blotting of patient-derived protein extracts showed that pathogenic mutations in GLB1 alter neuraminidase and PPCA patterns, indicating that disease-causing mutations disrupt the LMC. |
Expression of mutant alleles in heterologous cells, coimmunoprecipitation, Western blotting of patient protein extracts |
Journal of lipid research |
Medium |
17664528
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| 2003 |
The L436F polymorphism in GLB1 acts as a modulating variant: when present in cis with the R201C mutation, it severely reduces residual β-galactosidase activity compared to R201C alone. Expression studies in COS1 cells demonstrated that the R201C/L436F complex allele produces much lower GLB1 activity than R201C alone, establishing a cis-modulating mechanism for GLB1 activity. |
COS1 cell transfection expression studies, co-transfection experiments, Western blotting |
Human genetics |
Medium |
12644936
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| 2007 |
The p.Arg595Trp variant in GLB1 markedly reduces β-galactosidase activity when expressed in COS-1 cells, establishing it as a pseudodeficiency allele — reducing enzymatic activity without causing clinical disease. |
COS-1 cell expression assay for β-galactosidase activity |
Clinical genetics |
Low |
17661814
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| 2010 |
Phenotype-determining GLB1 alleles were characterized by overexpression of missense mutations in COS-1 cells, and subcellular localization of mutant GLB1 proteins was assessed in patient fibroblasts, revealing that specific mutations impair proper intracellular trafficking and lysosomal delivery of the enzyme. |
COS-1 cell overexpression assays, subcellular localization in patient fibroblasts |
Clinical genetics |
Medium |
20175788
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| 2011 |
Fluorous iminoalditol derivatives of 1-deoxygalactonojirimycin act as competitive inhibitors of GLB1-encoded β-galactosidase and function as pharmacological chaperones: they bind the catalytic site of mutant enzymes, correct their misfolded conformation, normalize intracellular trafficking and lysosomal maturation (shown by Western blot), and restore up to tenfold residual enzyme activity in GM1 gangliosidosis patient fibroblasts. |
Enzyme activity assay in patient fibroblasts, Western blot for protein trafficking and lysosomal maturation, competitive inhibition assay |
Journal of inherited metabolic disease |
Medium |
22033734
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| 2005 |
A 19-bp duplication in exon 15 of the canine GLB1 gene disrupts a potential exon splicing enhancer (ESE), causing exon 15 skipping in a fraction of transcripts. This produces two mutant mRNAs from the same allele: one retaining exon 15 with a premature termination codon (not subject to NMD due to its last-exon position), and one lacking exon 15 entirely — both predicted to encode truncated, non-functional proteins, causing GM1-gangliosidosis. |
Molecular cloning, sequencing of mutant allele, mRNA analysis, ESE prediction analysis |
Genetics |
Medium |
15944348
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| 2022 |
Insertion of a processed pseudogene (NPM1) deep in intron 5 of GLB1 introduces pseudogene-derived splicing regulatory motifs that activate a cryptic exon 36 bp upstream of the integration site, leading to aberrant GLB1 splicing and Morquio B disease. Antisense splice-modulating oligonucleotides (ASMOs) incorporated in modified U7 snRNA blocked the cryptic exon and almost completely restored wild-type splicing in a model cell line. |
Whole-genome sequencing, mRNA analysis, minigene co-expression, antisense oligonucleotide splice correction in model cell line |
NPJ genomic medicine |
High |
35882863
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| 2015 |
GLB1-encoded lysosomal β-galactosidase accumulates during replicative senescence and therapy-induced senescence in prostate epithelial cells, correlating with senescent morphology and P16/CDKN2A expression. This establishes GLB1 as the molecular origin of senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-β-gal) activity. |
In vitro replicative senescence of primary prostate epithelial cells, chemotherapy-induced senescence in PCa lines, immunofluorescent staining with quantitative imaging |
PloS one |
Medium |
25876105
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| 2019 |
GLB1 knockout in human cerebral organoids (via CRISPR/Cas9) causes progressive accumulation of GM1 ganglioside, and microinjection of AAV9-GLB1 vector restores β-galactosidase activity and significantly reduces GM1 ganglioside content, demonstrating that GLB1 encodes the enzyme primarily responsible for GM1 ganglioside degradation in human CNS tissue. |
CRISPR/Cas9 GLB1 knockout in human iPSCs, cerebral organoid generation, GM1 ganglioside quantification, AAV9-GLB1 rescue with enzyme activity assay |
Molecular genetics and metabolism reports |
High |
31534909
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| 2024 |
GLB1 knockout in SH-SY5Y human neuronal cells results in loss of β-galactosidase activity and downregulation of NEU1 and CTSA expression, establishing that the GLB1-NEU1-CTSA lysosomal multienzyme complex gene network is functionally interdependent. Knockout also suppressed cell proliferation and invasion. |
CRISPR/Cas9 dual-guide knockout, X-gal staining, qPCR, RNA-seq analysis |
Cell biochemistry and function |
Medium |
39076066
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| 2023 |
Adenine base editing (ABE) of the pathogenic GLB1 c.380G>A (p.Cys127Tyr) variant in patient-derived fibroblasts restores canonical guanine at the target site and rescues synthesis of active β-galactosidase to therapeutic levels, normalizing primary glycoconjugate storage and lysosomal pathology. |
CRISPR/Cas-adenine base editing in patient fibroblasts, enzyme activity assay, lysosomal pathology markers, off-target analysis |
The CRISPR journal |
Medium |
36629845
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| 2018 |
A novel in-frame deletion (p.Asn490del) in GLB1 alters the catalytic site geometry based on molecular dynamics simulation, causing misalignment of catalytic residues, and enzyme assay in patient leukocytes confirmed ~3% residual β-galactosidase activity, establishing the catalytic importance of residue Asn490. |
Molecular dynamics simulation of mutant protein, fluorometric enzyme activity assay in patient leukocytes |
Molecular genetics & genomic medicine |
Low |
30187681
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| 2022 |
A Glb1-2A-mCherry (GAC) knock-in reporter in mice shows that GLB1 (lysosomal β-galactosidase) is elevated in tissues of aging mice, with GAC signal linearly correlating with chronological age and exponentially increasing in bleomycin-induced pathological senescence. Senolytic treatment (dasatinib + quercetin) reduced the GAC signal in bleomycin-treated mice, establishing GLB1 as a functional in vivo reporter of systemic senescence. |
Knock-in reporter mouse generation, fluorescent signal quantification across ages, bleomycin lung injury model, dasatinib+quercetin senolytic treatment |
Nature communications |
High |
36396643
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