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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41940-5
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- UK Medical Research Council [G0700073, MR/M000532/1]
- UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/P007791/1]
- Egyptian Government Scholarships
- Kid's Kidney Research project grant
- Rosetree's Trust [JS16/M279]
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2009 [241955 SYSCILIA]
- Wellcome Trust Knock-out Mouse Resource scheme [ME041596]
- BBSRC [BB/P007791/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/M000532/1, G0700073] Funding Source: UKRI
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Primary cilia defects result in a group of related pleiotropic malformation syndromes known as ciliopathies, often characterised by cerebellar developmental and foliation defects. Here, we describe the cerebellar anatomical and signalling defects in the Tmem67(tm1(Dgen)/H) knockout mouse. At midgestation, Tmem67 mutant cerebella were hypoplastic and had aberrantly high canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signalling, proliferation and apoptosis. Later in development, mutant cerebellar hemispheres had severe foliation defects and inferior lobe malformation, characterized by immature Purkinje cells (PCs). Early postnatal Tmem67 mutant cerebellum had disrupted ciliogenesis and reduced responsiveness to Shh signalling. Transcriptome profiling of Tmem67 mutant cerebella identified ectopic increased expression of homeobox-type transcription factors (Hoxa5, Hoxa4, Hoxb5 and Hoxd3), normally required for early rostral hindbrain patterning. HOXB5 protein levels were increased in the inferior lobe, and increased canonical Wnt signalling, following loss ofTMEM67, was dependent on HOXB5. HOXB5 occupancy at the beta-catenin promoter was significantly increased by activation of canonical Wnt signalling in Tmem67( )(-/-)mutant cerebellar neurones, suggesting that increased canonical Wnt signalling following mutation or loss ofTMEM67 was directly dependent on HOXB5. Our results link dysregulated expression of Hox group genes with ciliaryWnt signalling defects in the developing cerebellum, providing new mechanistic insights into ciliopathy cerebellar hypoplasia phenotypes.
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