MYRF: A New Regulator of Cardiac and Early Gonadal Development—Insights from Single Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis

Verónica Calonga-Solís, Helena Fabbri-Scallet, Fabian Ott, Mostafa Al-Sharkawi, Axel Künstner, Lutz Wünsch, Olaf Hiort, Hauke Busch, Ralf Werner*

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit
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Abstract

De novo variants in the myelin regulatory factor (MYRF), a transcription factor involved in the differentiation of oligodendrocytes, have been linked recently to the cardiac and urogenital syndrome, while familiar variants are associated with nanophthalmos. Here, we report for the first time on a patient with a de novo stop-gain variant in MYRF (p.Q838*) associated with Scimitar syndrome, 46,XY partial gonadal dysgenesis (GD) and severe hyperopia. Since variants in MYRF have been described in both 46,XX and 46,XY GD, we assumed a role of MYRF in the early development of the bipotential gonad. We used publicly available single cell sequencing data of human testis and ovary from different developmental stages and analysed them for MYRF expression. We identified MYRF expression in the subset of coelomic epithelial cells at stages of gonadal ridge development in 46,XX and 46,XY individuals. Differential gene expression analysis revealed significantly upregulated genes. Within these, we identified CITED2 as a gene containing a MYRF binding site. It has been shown that Cited2−/− mice have gonadal defects in both testis and ovary differentiation, as well as defects in heart development and establishment of the left–right axis. This makes MYRF a potential candidate as an early regulator of gonadal and heart development via upregulation of the transcriptional cofactor CITED2.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer4858
ZeitschriftJournal of Clinical Medicine
Jahrgang11
Ausgabenummer16
ISSN2077-0383
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 08.2022

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