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自闭症基因PTCHD1的神经转录受保护下游增强器序列的调节
Stephen F Pastore1,2, Tahir Muhammad1,2, Cassandra Stan1
1Molecular Neuropsychiatry & Development (MiND) Lab, Molecular Brain Science Research Department, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, M5T 1RS, Canada.
Scientific reports
|November 22, 2023
概括
这项研究确定了控制补丁域含有1 (PTCHD1) 基因表达的关键调控元素. 了解这些机制对于解释与神经发育障碍 (如自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD)) 相关的遗传变异至关重要.
科学领域:
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 含有补丁域1 (PTCHD1) 是已知的自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 和智力障碍 (ID) 的敏感性基因.
- PTCHD1基因剂量的改变与ASD和ID的病因有关.
- 调节PTCHD1表达的机制在很大程度上仍然未被描述.
研究的目的:
- 在小鼠神经元模型中描述Ptchd1促销器区域.
- 识别和验证控制PTCHD1表达的cis调节元素.
- 为解释神经发育障碍相关遗传变异提供对PTCHD1调节的机制性见解.
主要方法:
- 在P19诱导的神经元中定义了Ptchd1表达的基本促进子区域.
- 确定了进化保存的转录因子结合位.
- 利用了小鼠前脑和肝脏组织之间的染色质可访问性比较.
- 采用DNase足迹分析来识别转录因子结合动机.
- 进行下游开放色素区域的基因组删除,以评估调节功能.
主要成果:
- 确定了对神经元表达至关重要的特定Ptchd1促进子区域.
- 一个候选的cis-regulatory区域约9.1kbp下游的Ptchd1停止编码被定义,含有预测增强剂.
- 在这个下游区域内确定了一个假定的YY1结合动机.
- 在神经元模型中,8kbp下游区域的基因组删除显著减弱了Ptchd1转录 (> 60%).
结论:
- 这项研究阐明了控制神经元中PTCHD1表达的关键调节机制.
- 确定了 cis 调节元件和转录因子结合位提供了对 PTCHD1 调节的机制性见解.
- 这些发现为了解PTCHD1位点的遗传和基因组变异对神经发育的影响提供了关键的背景.
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