Rcan1 deficiency impairs neuronal migration and causes periventricular heterotopia

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Periventricular heterotopia (PH) is a cortical malformation characterized by aggregation of neurons lining the lateral ventricles due to abnormal neuronal migration. The molecular mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of PH is unclear. Here we show that Regulators of calcineurin 1 (Rcan1), a Down syndrome-related gene, plays an important role in radial migration of rat cortical neurons. Downregulation of Rcan1 by expressing shRNA impaired neural progenitor proliferation and led to defects in radial migration and PH. Two isoforms of Rcan1 (Rcan1-1 and Rcan1-4) are expressed in the rat brain. Migration defects due to downregulation of Rcan1 could be prevented by shRNA-resistant expression of Rcan1-1 but not Rcan1-4. Furthermore, we found that Rcan1 knockdown significantly decreased the expression level of Flna, an F-actin cross-linking protein essential for cytoskeleton rearrangement and cell migration, mutation of which causes the most common form of bilateral PH in humans. Finally, overexpression of FLNA in Rcan1 knockdown neurons prevented migration abnormalities. Together, these findings demonstrate that Rcan1 acts upstream from Flna in regulating radial migration and suggest that impairment of Rcan1-Flna pathway may underlie PH pathogenesis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

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The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 35(2015), 2 vom: 14. Jan., Seite 610-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Zhi-Qi [VerfasserIn]

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FilaminA
Filamins
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
Journal Article
Migration
Periventricular heterotopia
Protein Isoforms
RCAN1 protein, rat
Rcan1
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 07.04.2015

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1003-14.2015

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM245351019