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Sato Y, Tsukaguchi H, Morita H, Higasa K, Tran MTN, Hamada M, Usui T, Morito N, Horita S, Hayashi T, Takagi J, Yamaguchi I, Nguyen HT, Harada M, Inui K, Maruta Y, Inoue Y, Koiwa F, Sato H, Matsuda F, Ayabe S, Mizuno S, Sugiyama F, Takahashi S, Yoshimura A. A mutation in transcription factor MAFB causes Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis with Duane Retraction Syndrome. Kidney Int 2018; 94:396-407. [PMID: 29779709 DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2018.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Revised: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a leading cause of end-stage renal disease in children and adults. Genetic factors significantly contribute to early-onset FSGS, but the etiologies of most adult cases remain unknown. Genetic studies of monogenic syndromic FSGS exhibiting extra-renal manifestations have uncovered an unexpected biological role for genes in the development of both podocytes and other cellular lineages. To help define these roles, we studied two unrelated families with FSGS associated with Duane Retraction Syndrome, characterized by impaired horizontal eye movement due to cranial nerve malformation. All four affected individuals developed FSGS and Duane Retraction Syndrome in their first to second decade of life, manifested as restricted abduction together with globe retraction and narrowed palpebral fissure on attempted adduction. Hypoplasia of the abducens nerves and hearing impairment occurred in severely affected individuals. Genetic analyses revealed that affected individuals harbor a rare heterozygous substitution (p.Leu239Pro) in MAFB, a leucine zipper transcription factor. Luciferase assays with cultured monocytes indicated that the substitution significantly reduced transactivation of the F4/80 promoter, the known MAFB recognition element. Additionally, immunohistochemistry indicated reduced MAFB expression in the podocytes of patients. Structural modeling suggested that the p.Leu239Pro substitution in the DNA-binding domain possibly interferes with the stability of the adjacent zinc finger. Lastly, podocytes in neonatal mice with p.Leu239Pro displayed impaired differentiation. Thus, MAFB mutations impair development and/or maintenance of podocytes, abducens neurons and the inner ear. The interactions between MAFB and regulatory elements in these developing organs are likely highly specific based on spatiotemporal requirements.
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- Yoshinori Sato
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Fujigaoka, Japan
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan.
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Fujigaoka, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Fujigaoka, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Fujigaoka, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Fujigaoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Experimental Animal Division, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory Animal Resource Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Fujigaoka, Japan
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Weisinger K, Kohl A, Kayam G, Monsonego-Ornan E, Sela-Donenfeld D. Expression of hindbrain boundary markers is regulated by FGF3. Biol Open 2011; 1:67-74. [PMID: 23213398 PMCID: PMC3507201 DOI: 10.1242/bio.2011032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Compartment boundaries act as organizing centers that segregate adjacent areas into domains of gene expression and regulation, and control their distinct fates via the secretion of signalling factors. During hindbrain development, a specialized cell-population forms boundaries between rhombomeres. These boundary cells demonstrate unique morphological properties and express multiple genes that differs them from intra-rhombomeric cells. Yet, little is known regarding the mechanisms that controls the expression or function of these boundary markers.Multiple components of the FGF signaling system, including ligands, receptors, downstream effectors as well as proteoglycans are shown to localize to boundary cells in the chick hindbrain. These patterns raise the possibility that FGF signaling plays a role in regulating boundary properties. We provide evidence to the role of FGF signaling, particularly the boundary-derived FGF3, in regulating the expression of multiple markers at hindbrain boundaries. These findings enable further characterization of the unique boundary-cell population, and expose a new function for FGFs as regulators of boundary-gene expression in the chick hindbrain.
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Cañestro C, Bassham S, Postlethwait J. Development of the central nervous system in the larvacean Oikopleura dioica and the evolution of the chordate brain. Dev Biol 2005; 285:298-315. [PMID: 16111672 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.06.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Revised: 06/11/2005] [Accepted: 06/17/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In non-vertebrate chordates, central nervous system (CNS) development has been studied in only two taxa, the Cephalochordata and a single Class (Ascidiacea) of the morphologically diverse Urochordata. To understand development and molecular regionalization of the brain in a different deeply diverging chordate clade, we isolated and determined the expression patterns of orthologs of vertebrate CNS markers (otxa, otxb, otxc, pax6, pax2/5/8a, pax2/5/8b, engrailed, and hox1) in Oikopleura dioica (Subphylum Urochordata, Class Larvacea). The three Oikopleura otx genes are expressed similarly to vertebrate Otx paralogs, demonstrating that trans-homologs converged on similar evolutionary outcomes by independent neo- or subfunctionalization processes during the evolution of the two taxa. This work revealed that the Oikopleura CNS possesses homologs of the vertebrate forebrain, hindbrain, and spinal cord, but not the midbrain. Comparing larvacean gene expression patterns to published results in ascidians disclosed important developmental differences and similarities that suggest mechanisms of development likely present in their last common ancestor. In contrast to ascidians, the lack of a radical reorganization of the CNS as larvaceans become adults allows us to relate embryonic gene expression patterns to three subdivisions of the adult anterior brain. Our study of the Oikopleura brain provides new insights into chordate CNS evolution: first, the absence of midbrain is a urochordate synapomorphy and not a peculiarity of ascidians, perhaps resulting from their drastic CNS metamorphosis; second, there is no convincing evidence for a homolog of a midbrain-hindbrain boundary (MHB) organizer in urochordates; and third, the expression pattern of "MHB-genes" in the urochordate hindbrain suggests that they function in the development of specific neurons rather than in an MHB organizer.
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- Cristian Cañestro
- Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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Watanabe T, Hongo I, Kidokoro Y, Okamoto H. Functional role of a novel ternary complex comprising SRF and CREB in expression of Krox-20 in early embryos of Xenopus laevis. Dev Biol 2005; 277:508-21. [PMID: 15617690 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.08.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2003] [Revised: 08/21/2004] [Accepted: 08/21/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Krox-20, originally identified as a member of "immediate-early" genes, plays a crucial role in the formation of two specific segments in the hindbrain during early development of the vertebrate nervous system. Here we cloned a genomic sequence of Xenopus Krox-20 (XKrox-20) and studied functions of a promoter element in the flanking sequence and associated transcription factors, which function in early Xenopus embryos. Using the luciferase reporter assay system, we showed that the 5' flanking sequence was sufficient to induce luciferase activities when the reporter construct was injected into embryos at the eight-cell stage. Deletion and mutagenesis analyses of the 5' flanking sequence revealed a minimal promoter element that included two known subelements, a CArG-box and cAMP response element (CRE) within a stretch of 22 bp nucleotide sequence (-72 to -51 from the transcription initiation site), both of which were essential for the promoter activity. The gel mobility shift assay indicated that these two subelements bound to some components in whole cell extracts prepared from stage 20 Xenopus embryos. Antibody supershift and competition experiments revealed that these components in cell extracts were serum response factor (SRF) and a member of CRE binding protein (CREB) family proteins that bound the CArG-box and CRE, respectively. They appeared to assemble on the minimal promoter element to produce a novel ternary complex. When we injected mRNA of a dominant-negative version of Xenopus SRF (XSRFDeltaC) into animal pole blastomeres at the eight-cell stage, expression of XKrox-20 in the nervous system as well as the minimal promoter activity was strongly suppressed. Suppression by XSRFDeltaC was counteracted by coexpressed wild-type XSRF. These results indicate that XSRF functions as an endogenous activator of XKrox-20 by forming a ternary complex with CREB on the minimal promoter element.
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- Takashi Watanabe
- Institute for Behavioral Sciences, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi 371-8511, Japan
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Schilling TF, Prince V, Ingham PW. Plasticity in zebrafish hox expression in the hindbrain and cranial neural crest. Dev Biol 2001; 231:201-16. [PMID: 11180963 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2000.9997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The anterior-posterior identities of cells in the hindbrain and cranial neural crest are thought to be determined by their Hox gene expression status, but how and when cells become committed to these identities remain unclear. Here we address this in zebrafish by cell transplantation, to test plasticity in hox expression in single cells. We transplanted cells alone, or in small groups, between hindbrain rhombomeres or between the neural crest primordia of pharyngeal arches. We found that transplanted cells regulated hox expression according to their new environments. The degree of plasticity, however, depended on both the timing and the size of the transplant. At later stages transplanted cells were more likely to be irreversibly committed and maintain their hox expression, demonstrating a progressive loss of responsiveness to the environmental signals that specify segmental identities. Individual transplanted cells also showed greater plasticity than those lying within the center of larger groups, suggesting that a community effect normally maintains hox expression within segments. We also raised experimental embryos to larval stages to analyze transplanted cells after differentiation and found that neural crest cells contributed to pharyngeal cartilages appropriate to the anterior-posterior level of the new cellular environment. Thus, consistent with models implicating hox expression in control of segmental identity, plasticity in hox expression correlates with plasticity in final cell fate.
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- T F Schilling
- Molecular Embryology Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, United Kingdom.
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