CDKL5 Gene: Beyond Rett Syndrome

Abstract

CDKL5 is a gene located in the X-chromosome (Xp22) encoding a serine/threonine kinase involved in various signaling pathways, implicated in cell proliferation, axon development, dendrite growth, synapse formation, and maintenance. Mutations occurring in this gene have been associated with drug-resistant early-onset epilepsy, with multiple seizures type, and deep cognitive and motor development delay with poor or absent speech, ataxic gait or inability to walk, hand stereotypies and in a few cases decrement of head growth. Many aspects remain unclear about the CDKL5 deficiency disorders, research will be fundamental to better understand the pathogenesis of neurological damage and consequently developed more targeted and profitable therapies, as there is not, at the present, a gene-based treatment and the seizures are in most of the cases drug resistant. In this article, we summarize the actual knowledge about CDKL5 gene function and mostly the consequence given by its dysfunction, also examining the possible therapeutic approaches.

Keywords

CDKL5 - epilepsy - childhood - Rett-like phenotype - encephalopathy

Publication History

Received: 20 February 2021

Accepted: 21 February 2021

Article published online:
13 April 2021

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