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CELL STEM CELL
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 98-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2020.04.002
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- European Research Council (STEMBAR)
- Swiss National Science Foundation [BSCGI0157859]
- University of Zurich (UZH) Forschungskredit
- Zurich Neuroscience Center (ZNZ)
- Betty and David Koetser Foundation
- Candoc fellowship
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Altered neural stem/progenitor cell (NSPC) activity and neurodevelopmental defects are linked to intellectual disability. However, it remains unclear whether altered metabolism, a key regulator of NSPC activity, disrupts human neurogenesis and potentially contributes to cognitive defects. We investigated links between lipid metabolism and cognitive function in mice and human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) expressing mutant fatty acid synthase (FASN; R1819W), a metabolic regulator of rodent NSPC activity recently identified in humans with intellectual disability. Mice homozygous for the FASN R1812W variant have impaired adult hippocampal NSPC activity and cognitive defects because of lipid accumulation in NSPCs and subsequent lipogenic ER stress. Homozygous FASN R1819W hESC-derived NSPCs show reduced rates of proliferation in embryonic 2D cultures and 3D forebrain regionalized organoids, consistent with a developmental phenotype. These data from adult mouse models and in vitro models of human brain development suggest that altered lipid metabolism contributes to intellectual disability.
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