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ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
Volume 66, Issue 6, Pages 843-857Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21927
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- University of California San Francisco Sandler Neurogenetics
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Objective: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression and have many roles in the brain, but a role it) oligodendrocyte (OL) function has not been demonstrated. Methods: A Dicer foxed conditional allele was crossed with the proteolipid protein promoter-driven inducible Cre allele to generate inducible, OL-specific Dicer-floxed mice. Results: OL-specific Dicer murants show demyelination, oxidative damage, inflammatory astrocytosis and microgliosis in the brain, and eventually neuronal degeneration and shorter lifespan. miR-219 and its target ELOVL7 (elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 7) were identified as the main molecular components that are involved in the development of the phenotype in these mice. Overexpressing ELOVL7 results in lipid accumulation, which is suppressed by miR-219 co-overexpression. In Dicer mutant brain, excess lipids accumulate in myetin-rich brain regions, and the peroxisomal P-oxidation activity is dramatically reduced. Interpretation: Postnatal Dicer ablation in mature OLs results in inflammatory neuronal degeneration through increased demyelination, lipid accumulation, and peroxisomal and oxidative damage, and therefore indicates that miRNAs play an essential role in the maintenance of lipids and redox homeostasis in mature OLs that are necessary for Supporting axonal integrity as well as the formation of compact myelin. Ann Neurol 2009;66:843-857
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