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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41419-021-04473-2
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81771595, 81871219, 81901565, 82001643]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFC1000505]
- 345 Talent Project
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Impaired autophagy and excessive apoptosis disrupt cellular homeostasis in neural tube defects (NTDs). The transcription factor NFIC plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis during neural tube closure. Abnormal levels of NFIC can interact with the miR-200b promoter, activating the transcription of miR-200b. MiR-200b represses autophagy and triggers apoptosis by targeting the autophagy-related gene Ambra1. This NFIC-miR-200b-Ambra1 axis disrupts cellular homeostasis and may contribute to NTD pathogenesis.
Impaired autophagy and excessive apoptosis disrupt cellular homeostasis and contribute to neural tube defects (NTDs), which are a group of fatal and disabling birth defects caused by the failure of neural tube closure during early embryonic development. However, the regulatory mechanisms underlying NTDs and outcomes remain elusive. Here, we report the role of the transcription factor nuclear factor I-C (NFIC) in maintaining cellular homeostasis in NTDs. We demonstrated that abnormally elevated levels of NFIC in a mouse model of NTDs can interact with the miR-200b promoter, leading to the activation of the transcription of miR-200b, which plays a critical role in NTD formation, as reported in our previous study. Furthermore, miR-200b represses autophagy and triggers apoptosis by directly targeting the autophagy-related gene Ambra1 (Autophagy/Beclin1 regulator 1). Notably, miR-200b inhibitors mitigate the unexpected effects of NFIC on autophagy and apoptosis. Collectively, these results indicate that the NFIC-miR-200b-Ambra1 axis, which integrates transcription- and epigenome-regulated miRNAs and an autophagy regulator, disrupts cellular homeostasis during the closure of the neural tube, and may provide new insight into NTD pathogenesis.
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