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Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and the urinary tract (CAKUT) belong to the most common birth defects in human, but the molecular basis for the majority of CAKUT patients remains unknown. Here we show that the transcription factor SOX11 is a crucial regulator of kidney development. SOX11 is expressed in both mesenchymal and epithelial components of the early kidney anlagen. Deletion of Sox11 in mice causes an extension of the domain expressing Gdnf within rostral regions of the nephrogenic cord and results in duplex kidney formation. On the molecular level SOX11 directly binds and regulates a locus control region of the protocadherin B cluster. At later stages of kidney development, SOX11 becomes restricted to the intermediate segment of the developing nephron where it is required for the elongation of Henle's loop. Finally, mutation analysis in a cohort of patients suffering from CAKUT identified a series of rare SOX11 variants, one of which interferes with the transactivation capacity of the SOX11 protein. Taken together these data demonstrate a key role for SOX11 in normal kidney development and may suggest that variants in this gene predispose to CAKUT in humans.
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Rim/anormalidades , Mutação , Fatores de Transcrição SOXC/genética , Ureter/anormalidades , Anormalidades Urogenitais/genética , Refluxo Vesicoureteral/genética , Animais , Caderinas/genética , Caderinas/metabolismo , Proliferação de Células , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Estudos de Associação Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Fator Neurotrófico Derivado de Linhagem de Célula Glial/genética , Fator Neurotrófico Derivado de Linhagem de Célula Glial/metabolismo , Humanos , Rim/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos Knockout , Morfogênese , Fenótipo , Fatores de Risco , Fatores de Transcrição SOXC/deficiência , Ureter/metabolismo , Anormalidades Urogenitais/metabolismo , Anormalidades Urogenitais/patologia , Refluxo Vesicoureteral/metabolismo , Refluxo Vesicoureteral/patologiaRESUMO
Hereditary defects of coenzyme Q10 biosynthesis cause steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) as part of multiorgan involvement but may also contribute to isolated SRNS. Here, we report 26 patients from 12 families with recessive mutations in ADCK4. Mutation detection rate was 1.9% among 534 consecutively screened cases. Patients with ADCK4 mutations showed a largely renal-limited phenotype, with three subjects exhibiting occasional seizures, one subject exhibiting mild mental retardation, and one subject exhibiting retinitis pigmentosa. ADCK4 nephropathy presented during adolescence (median age, 14.1 years) with nephrotic-range proteinuria in 44% of patients and advanced CKD in 46% of patients at time of diagnosis. Renal biopsy specimens uniformly showed FSGS. Whereas 47% and 36% of patients with mutations in WT1 and NPHS2, respectively, progressed to ESRD before 10 years of age, ESRD occurred almost exclusively in the second decade of life in ADCK4 nephropathy. However, CKD progressed much faster during adolescence in ADCK4 than in WT1 and NPHS2 nephropathy, resulting in similar cumulative ESRD rates (>85% for each disorder) in the third decade of life. In conclusion, ADCK4-related glomerulopathy is an important novel differential diagnosis in adolescents with SRNS/FSGS and/or CKD of unknown origin.