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ArticleDisease models & mechanisms2024

Fbrsl1 is required for heart development in Xenopus laevis and de novo variants in FBRSL1 can cause human heart defects.

Hanna Berger, Sarah Gerstner, Marc-Frederik Horstmann, Silke Pauli, Annette Borchers

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Article in Disease models & mechanisms, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hanna BergerDepartment of Biology, Molecular Embryology, Philipps-University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Sarah GerstnerDepartment of Biology, Molecular Embryology, Philipps-University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Marc-Frederik HorstmannDepartment of Biology, Molecular Embryology, Philipps-University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Silke PauliInstitute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
Annette BorchersDepartment of Biology, Molecular Embryology, Philipps-University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2524-5384
Philipps University of Marburg · DEUniversitätsmedizin Göttingen · DE

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft BO 1978/7-3Philipps-Universität Marburg
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

De novo truncating variants in fibrosin-like 1 (FBRSL1), a member of the AUTS2 gene family, cause a disability syndrome, including organ malformations such as heart defects. Here, we use Xenopus laevis to investigate whether Fbrsl1 plays a role in heart development. Xenopus laevis fbrsl1 is expressed in tissues relevant for heart development, and morpholino-mediated knockdown of Fbrsl1 results in severely hypoplastic hearts. Our data suggest that Fbrsl1 is required for the development of the first heart field, which contributes to the ventricle and the atria, but not for the second heart field, which gives rise to the outflow tract. The morphant heart phenotype could be rescued using a human N-terminal FBRSL1 isoform that contains an alternative exon, but lacks the AUTS2 domain. N-terminal isoforms carrying patient variants failed to rescue. Interestingly, a long human FBRSL1 isoform, harboring the AUTS2 domain, also did not rescue the morphant heart defects. Thus, our data suggest that different FBRSL1 isoforms may have distinct functions and that only the short N-terminal isoform, appears to be critical for heart development.

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HeartHeart Defects, CongenitalXenopus laevisXenopus ProteinsAnimalsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Knockdown TechniquesHumansPhenotypeProtein IsoformsProtein IsoformsXenopus ProteinsAUTS2Congenital malformation syndromeFbrsl1Heart development

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PMID38501224
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