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ZBTB11 dysfunction: spectrum of brain abnormalities, biochemical signature and cellular consequences

Journal

BRAIN
Volume 145, Issue 7, Pages 2602-2616

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awac034

Keywords

chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-sequencing; malonic aciduria; methylmalonic aciduria; RNA-sequencing; ZBTB11

Funding

  1. Quota scheme of Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund
  2. Helse Sor-Ost RHF (South-East Norway Regional Health Authority) [276940]
  3. intramural research program (IRP) of the NHGRI
  4. NISC Comparative Sequencing Program of the NHGRI IRP
  5. B.C. Children's Hospital Foundation (1st Collaborative Area of Innovation)
  6. Canadian Institutes of Health Research [301221]
  7. Stichting Metakids NL

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Mutations in the ZBTB11 gene are associated with intellectual disability. The study found that patients with ZBTB11 mutations showed atrophy in multiple brain regions and had malonic and methylmalonic aciduria as disease markers. In vitro experiments indicated that ZBTB11 regulates mitochondrial functions and RNA processing.
Bi-allelic pathogenic variants in ZBTB11 have been associated with intellectual developmental disorder, autosomal recessive 69 (MRT69; OMIM 618383). We report five patients from three families with novel, bi-allelic variants in ZBTB11. We have expanded the clinical phenotype of MRT69, documenting varied severity of atrophy affecting different brain regions and described combined malonic and methylmalonic aciduria as a biochemical manifestation. As ZBTB11 encodes for a transcriptional regulator, we performeded chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing targeting ZBTB11 in fibroblasts from patients and controls. Chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing revealed binding of wild-type ZBTB11 to promoters in 238 genes, among which genes encoding proteins involved in mitochondrial functions and RNA processing are over-represented. Mutated ZBTB11 showed reduced binding to 61 of the targeted genes, indicating that the variants act as loss of function. Most of these genes are related to mitochondrial functions. Transcriptome analysis of the patient fibroblasts revealed dysregulation of mitochondrial functions. In addition, we uncovered that reduced binding of the mutated ZBTB11 to ACSF3 leads to decreased ACSF3 transcript level, explaining combined malonic and methylmalonic aciduria. Collectively, these results expand the clinical spectrum of ZBTB11-related neurological disease and give insight into the pathophysiology in which the dysfunctional ZBTB11 affect mitochondrial functions and RNA processing contributing to the neurological and biochemical phenotypes. Mutations in ZBTB11 are associated with intellectual disability. Sumathipala et al. show that patients with ZBTB11 mutations display atrophy in multiple brain regions, and that malonic and methylmalonic aciduria are disease markers. In vitro studies indicate that ZBTB11 regulates mitochondrial translation and RNA processing.

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