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XB-ART-57582
Am J Hum Genet 2020 Oct 01;1074:727-742. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.08.013.
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Mutations of the Transcriptional Corepressor ZMYM2 Cause Syndromic Urinary Tract Malformations.

Connaughton DM , Dai R , Owen DJ , Marquez J , Mann N , Graham-Paquin AL , Nakayama M , Coyaud E , Laurent EMN , St-Germain JR , Blok LS , Vino A , Klämbt V , Deutsch K , Wu CW , Kolvenbach CM , Kause F , Ottlewski I , Schneider R , Kitzler TM , Majmundar AJ , Buerger F , Onuchic-Whitford AC , Youying M , Kolb A , Salmanullah D , Chen E , van der Ven AT , Rao J , Ityel H , Seltzsam S , Rieke JM , Chen J , Vivante A , Hwang DY , Kohl S , Dworschak GC , Hermle T , Alders M , Bartolomaeus T , Bauer SB , Baum MA , Brilstra EH , Challman TD , Zyskind J , Costin CE , Dipple KM , Duijkers FA , Ferguson M , Fitzpatrick DR , Fick R , Glass IA , Hulick PJ , Kline AD , Krey I , Kumar S , Lu W , Marco EJ , Wentzensen IM , Mefford HC , Platzer K , Povolotskaya IS , Savatt JM , Shcherbakova NV , Senguttuvan P , Squire AE , Stein DR , Thiffault I , Voinova VY , Somers MJG , Ferguson MA , Traum AZ , Daouk GH , Daga A , Rodig NM , Terhal PA , van Binsbergen E , Eid LA , Tasic V , Rasouly HM , Lim TY , Ahram DF , Gharavi AG , Reutter HM , Rehm HL , MacArthur DG , Lek M , Laricchia KM , Lifton RP , Xu H , Mane SM , Sanna-Cherchi S , Sharrocks AD , Raught B , Fisher SE , Bouchard M , Khokha MK , Shril S , Hildebrandt F .


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Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) constitute one of the most frequent birth defects and represent the most common cause of chronic kidney disease in the first three decades of life. Despite the discovery of dozens of monogenic causes of CAKUT, most pathogenic pathways remain elusive. We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) in 551 individuals with CAKUT and identified a heterozygous de novo stop-gain variant in ZMYM2 in two different families with CAKUT. Through collaboration, we identified in total 14 different heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in ZMYM2 in 15 unrelated families. Most mutations occurred de novo, indicating possible interference with reproductive function. Human disease features are replicated in X. tropicalis larvae with morpholino knockdowns, in which expression of truncated ZMYM2 proteins, based on individual mutations, failed to rescue renal and craniofacial defects. Moreover, heterozygous Zmym2-deficient mice recapitulated features of CAKUT with high penetrance. The ZMYM2 protein is a component of a transcriptional corepressor complex recently linked to the silencing of developmentally regulated endogenous retrovirus elements. Using protein-protein interaction assays, we show that ZMYM2 interacts with additional epigenetic silencing complexes, as well as confirming that it binds to FOXP1, a transcription factor that has also been linked to CAKUT. In summary, our findings establish that loss-of-function mutations of ZMYM2, and potentially that of other proteins in its interactome, as causes of human CAKUT, offering new routes for studying the pathogenesis of the disorder.

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Species referenced: Xenopus tropicalis
Genes referenced: atp1a1 foxp1 zmym2
GO keywords: kidney development
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Phenotypes: Xtr Wt + zmym2 MO (Fig. 2 B C D E) [+]
References [+] :
Aguilar-Martinez, Screen for multi-SUMO-binding proteins reveals a multi-SIM-binding mechanism for recruitment of the transcriptional regulator ZMYM2 to chromatin. 2015, Pubmed