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CASE REPORT article

Front. Med.
Sec. Dermatology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1458723
This article is part of the Research Topic Prevention and Treatment of Skin Diseases View all articles

Case Report: Multiple facial trichoepitheliomas caused by p.Val835SerfsTer52 variant of CYLD gene

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
  • 2 Federal State Budgetary Institution “Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnologies” of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • 3 Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine , Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia

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    Summary: Brooke-Spiegler syndrome (BSS) is an autosomal dominant disease associated with the CYLD gene, which manifests itself as multiple benign skin tumors. We presented a young female patient with a previously undescribed heterozygous de novo mutation c.2501dupC (p.Val835SerfsTer52) of the CYLD gene. The nucleotide sequence variant was detected by clinical exome sequencing and validated by Sanger sequencing in her parents and sister. A histological examination of the elements identified multiple trichoepitheliomas. Radical removal of the largest formations of the facial skin was performed under local infiltration anesthesia with wound treatment with a CO2 laser in a pulsed-periodic mode. Nevertheless, new formations began to appear on the patient's facial skin of the forehead, upper eyelids, nasolabial triangle, prone to growth and requiring removal. Domain modeling of the mutant protein proved its conformational difference from the wild type, as well as altered physicochemical properties. Conclusion: The new CYLD gene variant p.Val835SerfsTer52 causes the development of multiple familial trichoepitheliomas in BSS and confirms the hypothesis of the association of this gene variant with loss-of-function mutations. We have verified that removing multiple trichoepitheliomas simultaneously with a CO2 laser does not impede the pathological process. Therefore, hopes are placed on targeted therapy, which is currently not developed for this disease.

    Keywords: Multiple trichoepitheliomas, Brooke-Spiegler syndrome, CYLD, c.2501dupC, p.Val835SerfsTer52

    Received: 03 Jul 2024; Accepted: 13 Sep 2024.

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    * Correspondence:
    Tatiana A. Gaydina, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
    Anastasiia Buianova, Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine , Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, 117997, Moscow Oblast, Russia

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