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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 83, 期 3, 页码 388-400出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.08.012
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资金
- EU Commission
- Leukaemia Research Fund-UK [06003]
- Barts and The London Charitable Foundation
- Fondation Jerome Lejeune
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Center of Excellence Frontiers in Genetics
- Childcare Foundation
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Medical Research Council UK
- The Wellcome Trust
- Medical Research Council [G0601056, MC_U117527252] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U117527252, G0601056] Funding Source: UKRI
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common cause of mental retardation. Many neural phenotypes are shared between DS individuals and DS mouse models; however, the common underlying molecular pathogenetic mechanisms remain unclear. Using a transchromosomic model of DS, we show that a 30%-60% reduced expression of Nrsf/Rest (a key regulator of pluripotency and neuronal differentiation) is an alteration that persists in trisomy 21 from undifferentiated embryonic stem (ES) cells to adult brain and is reproducible across several DS models. Using partially trisomic ES cells, we map this effect to a three-gene segment of HSA21, containing DYRK1A. We independently identify the same locus as the most significant eQTL controlling REST expression in the human genome. We show that specifically silencing the third copy of DYRK1A rescues Rest levels, and we demonstrate altered Rest expression in response to inhibition of DYRK1A expression or kinase activity, and in a transgenic Dyrk1A mouse. We reveal that undifferentiated trisomy 21 ES cells show DYRK1A-dosesensitive reductions in levels of some pluripotency regulators, causing premature expression of transcription factors driving early endodermal and mesodermal differentiation, partially overlapping recently reported downstream effects of Rest +/-. They produce embryoid bodies with elevated levels of the primitive endoderm progenitor marker Gata4 and a strongly reduced neuroectodermal progenitor compartment. Our results suggest that DYRK1A-mediated deregulation of REST is a very early pathological consequence of trisomy 21 with potential to disturb the development of all embryonic lineages, warranting closer research into its contribution to DS pathology and new rationales for therapeutic approaches.
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