Spina bifida (WP5150)

Homo sapiens

This pathway explains how spina bifida occurs in development. Many genes in the pathway are known risk factors for spina bifida. The shortage of nucleotides in neuroepithelial cells slows the cellular replication leading to a "retarded" neural fold development.

Authors

XNauts , Friederike Ehrhart , Egon Willighagen , Martina Summer-Kutmon , and Eric Weitz

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Organisms

Homo sapiens

Communities

Rare Diseases

Annotations

Pathway Ontology

altered folate metabolic pathway folate metabolic pathway

Disease Ontology

spina bifida neural tube defect

Cell Type Ontology

neuroepithelial stem cell

Participants

Label Type Compact URI Comment
Folic acid Metabolite chebi:27470
10-Formyltetrahydrofolate Metabolite hmdb:HMDB00972
5,10-Methenyltetrahydrofolate Metabolite chebi:57455
THF Metabolite chebi:20506
Cobalamin Metabolite chebi:30411
Ethanol Metabolite chebi:16236
Homocysteine Metabolite hmdb:HMDB00742
5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate Metabolite chebi:12071
Methionine Metabolite chebi:16643
2'-Deoxycytidine 5'-monophosphate(1−) residue Metabolite chebi:85452
Methylcobalamin Metabolite hmdb:HMDB02274
5-Methyl dCMP(1−) residue Metabolite chebi:85454
5-Methyltetrahydrofolate Metabolite chebi:15641
S-Adenosylhomocysteine Metabolite chebi:57856
S-Adenosylmethionine Metabolite chebi:67040
MTR GeneProduct ncbigene:4548
MTHFR GeneProduct ncbigene:4524
SHMT1 GeneProduct ncbigene:6470
MTHFD1 GeneProduct ncbigene:4522
MTRR GeneProduct ncbigene:4552
MAT1A GeneProduct ncbigene:4143
DNMT1 GeneProduct ncbigene:1786
DNMT3b GeneProduct ncbigene:1789
KIAA0828 GeneProduct ncbigene:23382
MAT2B GeneProduct ncbigene:27430
DNMT3a GeneProduct ncbigene:1788
AHCY GeneProduct ncbigene:191

References

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  2. Twenty-four non-synonymous polymorphisms in the one-carbon metabolic pathway and risk of colorectal adenoma in the Nurses’ Health Study. Hazra A, Wu K, Kraft P, Fuchs CS, Giovannucci EL, Hunter DJ. Carcinogenesis. 2007 Jul;28(7):1510–9. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
  3. Toward understanding the genetic basis of neural tube defects. Kibar Z, Capra V, Gros P. Clin Genet. 2007 Apr;71(4):295–310. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
  4. Neural tube defects, folic acid and methylation. Imbard A, Benoist JF, Blom HJ. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2013 Sep 17;10(9):4352–89. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia