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Article Dans Une Revue Human Molecular Genetics Année : 2019

Loss of function mutations in KIF14 cause severe microcephaly and kidney development defects in humans and zebrafish

Marion Delous

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Mutations in KIF14 have previously been associated with either severe, isolated or syndromic microcephaly with renal hypodysplasia (RHD). Syndromic microcephaly-RHD was strongly reminiscent of clinical ciliopathies, relating to defects of the primary cilium, a signalling organelle present on the surface of many quiescent cells. KIF14 encodes a mitotic kinesin, which plays a key role at the midbody during cytokinesis and has not previously been shown to be involved in cilia-related functions. Here, we analysed four families with fetuses presenting with the syndromic form and harbouring biallelic variants in KIF14. Our functional analyses showed that the identified variants severely impact the activity of KIF14 and likely correspond to loss-of-function mutations. Analysis in human fetal tissues further revealed the accumulation of KIF14-positive midbody remnants in the lumen of ureteric bud tips indicating a shared function of KIF14 during brain and kidney development. Subsequently, analysis of a kif14 mutant zebrafish line showed a conserved role for this mitotic kinesin. Interestingly, ciliopathy-associated phenotypes were also present in mutant embryos, supporting a potential direct or indirect role for KIF14 at cilia. However, our in vitro and in vivo analyses did not provide evidence of a direct role for KIF14 in ciliogenesis and suggested that loss of kif14 causes ciliopathy-like phenotypes through an accumulation of mitotic cells in ciliated tissues. Altogether, our results demonstrate that KIF14 mutations result in a severe syndrome associating microcephaly and RHD through its conserved function in cytokinesis during kidney and brain development.
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inserm-02263778 , version 1 (05-08-2019)

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Madeline Louise Reilly, Marijn F Stokman, Virginie Magry, Cécile Jeanpierre, Marine Alves, et al.. Loss of function mutations in KIF14 cause severe microcephaly and kidney development defects in humans and zebrafish. Human Molecular Genetics, 2019, 28 (5), pp.778-795. ⟨10.1093/hmg/ddy381⟩. ⟨inserm-02263778⟩
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