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Microcephaly Gene Links Trithorax and REST/NRSF to Control Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation
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Microcephaly is a neurodevelopmental disorder causing significantly reduced cerebral cortex size. Many known microcephaly gene products localize to centrosomes, regulating cell fate and proliferation. Here, we identify and characterize a nuclear zinc finger protein, ZNF335/NIF-1, as a causative gene for severe microcephaly, small somatic size, and neonatal death. Znf335 null mice are embryonically lethal, and conditional knockout leads to severely reduced cortical size. RNA-interference and postmortem human studies show that ZNF335 is essential for neural progenitor self-renewal, neurogenesis, and neuronal differentiation. ZNF335 is a component of a vertebrate-specific, trithorax H3K4-methylation complex, directly regulating REST/NRSF, a master regulator of neural gene expression and cell fate, as well as other essential neural-specific genes. Our results reveal ZNF335 as an essential link between H3K4 complexes and REST/NRSF and provide the first direct genetic evidence that this pathway regulates human neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation.
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- Yang, Y. J., Baltus, A. E., Mathew, R. S., Murphy, E. A., Evrony, G. D., Gonzalez, D. M., Wang, E. P., Marshall-Walker, C. A., Barry, B. J., Murn, J., Tatarakis, A., Mahajan, M. A., Samuels, H. H., Shi, Y., Golden, J. A., Mahajnah, M., Shenhav, R., & Walsh, C. A.
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- Broad Institute (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- New York University (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Rabin Medical Center (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Walsh, Christopher A.
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2012-11
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- 151
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- 5
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- 1097-1112
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- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC3567437
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA118487, CA118487)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM058012, T32GM007753, R01GM071004, R01GM058012, GM071004)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK016636, R01 DK16636)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01 NS35129,, R01NS035129, R01NS032457)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD007466)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Keywords
- microcephaly, Trithorax group proteins, REST/NRSF, H3K4 methylation, neural stem cell proliferation, neurogenesis, neuronal differentiation, centrosome, conditional knockout mice, zinc finger proteins
- MeSH terms
- RE1-Silencing Transcription Factor, Animals, Carrier Proteins, Cell Differentiation, DNA-Binding Proteins, Female, Genes, Lethal, Humans, Male, Microcephaly, Nuclear Proteins, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Repressor Proteins, Transcription Factors, Mice, Knockout, Multiprotein Complexes, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Cell Proliferation, Mice, Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein, Neurogenesis, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Neural Stem Cells
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