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Detection of Alternative Splicing During Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
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細胞型特異的な代替スプライシングは,発達中の脳皮質の細胞運命を支配する
Xiaochang Zhang1, Ming Hui Chen2, Xuebing Wu3
1Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cell
|August 28, 2016
まとめ
脳の発達過程で 細胞の運命を動的に制御します Ptbp1やRbfoxのような重要なタンパク質は,特定の遺伝子エクソンを変化させ,神経細胞の分化に影響を与え,潜在的に脳異常を引き起こします.
科学分野:
- 神経科学
- 分子生物学
- 遺伝学
背景:
- 代替スプライシングは哺乳類の脳に広く見られます
- 神経の発達における その役割を理解することは 極めて重要です
研究 の 目的:
- ニューラルプロジェニータ細胞 (NPC) の分化における代替スプライシングの機能的役割を調査する.
- 脳皮質の発達中の代替スプライシングのキーレギュレータとターゲットを特定する.
主な方法:
- 哺乳類の脳皮質から精製されたNPCとニューロンの分析.
- 差異的にスプライスされたエクソンとそのタンパク質領域の変化の識別と特徴付け.
- Ptbp1とRbfoxタンパク質がスプライシングを調節する際の敵対的な役割の調査.
- スプライシングに影響するヒトの変異の分析と 脳異常との関連
主要な成果:
- 何百もの異なったスプライスされたエクソンが特定され,特に細胞骨格のタンパク質に影響を与え,病気を引き起こす可能性のある変異を宿している.
- Ptbp1とRbfoxのタンパク質は,神経特異なエクソンを調節することによって,NPCからニューロンへの移行を敵対的に制御することが示された.
- Ptbp1は,Flnaの毒エクソンを抑制することでアピカルプロジェニタを維持し,Rbfoxタンパク質は,Nineinのスプライシングを変化させることでニューロンの分化を促進します.
- PTBP1結合部位におけるヒト内基変異は,FLNAエクソンスキップを妨害し,脳特異的変形を引き起こした.
結論:
- 脳の皮質の発達中の細胞運命を決定するために,代替スプライシングのダイナミックな制御は不可欠です.
- FLNAの変異によって示されるスプライシングの制御不全は,脳異常を引き起こす可能性があります.
- Ptbp1とRbfoxは,代替スプライシング経由でニューロンへのニューラルプロジェニータ細胞の主要な対抗レギュレータである.
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