This report describes Coffin-Siris syndrome 3 (CSS3), which is a subtype of Coffin-Siris syndrome; it is also called mental retardation autosomal dominant 15 (MRD15). CSS3 exhibits autosomal dominant inheritance. The human gene implicated in this disease is SMARCB1, which encodes a component of SWI/SNF complexes; these complexes regulate transcription via chromatin remodeling. SMARCB1 encodes a core subunit of SWI/SNF complexes and is thought to be a component of all types of SWI/SNF complexes. There is a single Drosophila gene orthologous to SMARCB1, Dmel\Snr1, for which classical loss-of-function alleles, RNAi-targeting constructs, and alleles caused by insertional mutagenesis have been generated.
The human SMARCB1 gene has not been introduced into flies.
Animals homozygous for a loss-of-function mutations of Snr1 typically die during early stages. RNAi-targeted knockdown of Snr1 in the mushroom body (a brain region associated with learning and memory) causes male flies not to reduce courtship attempts after being rejected by a female, a measure of memory formation in flies. Both short-term and long-term memory impairment are observed. Defects in mushroom body morphology are observed, including defects in pruning of the MBγ neurons during pupal morphogenesis. Many physical and genetic interactions have been reported for Dmel\Snr1; see below and in the Snr1 gene report.
[updated Jul. 2019 by FlyBase; FBrf0222196]
Coffin-Siris syndrome is a multiple malformation syndrome characterized by mental retardation associated with coarse facial features, hypertrichosis, sparse scalp hair, and hypoplastic or absent fifth fingernails or toenails. Other more variable features may include poor overall growth, craniofacial abnormalities, spinal anomalies, and congenital heart defects (review by Vergano and Deardorff, 2014; pubmed:25169447). [from MIM:135900; 2019.07.19]
Coffin-Siris syndrome is a multiple malformation syndrome characterized by intellectual disability associated with coarse facial features, hypertrichosis, sparse scalp hair, and hypoplastic or absent fifth fingernails or toenails. Other more variable features may include poor overall growth, craniofacial abnormalities, spinal anomalies, and congenital heart defects (review by Vergano and Deardorff, 2014; pubmed:25169447). [from MIM:135900; 2019.07.19]
[COFFIN-SIRIS SYNDROME 3; CSS3](https://omim.org/entry/614608)
[SWI/SNF-RELATED, MATRIX-ASSOCIATED, ACTIN-DEPENDENT REGULATOR OF CHROMATIN, SUBFAMILY B, MEMBER 1; SMARCB1](https://omim.org/entry/601607)
Coffin-Siris syndrome-3 (CSS3) is caused by heterozygous mutation in the SMARCB1 gene. [from OIMI:614608 ; 2019.07.20]
SMARCB1 encodes a core component of the SWI/SNF complex, an ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling complex that relieves repressive chromatin structures, allowing the transcriptional machinery to access its targets more effectively.
One to one: 1 human to 1 Drosophila.
High-scoring ortholog of human SMARCB1 (1 Drosophila to 1 human). Dmel\Snr1 shares 63% identity and 74% similarity with the human gene.