TY - JOUR
T1 - Muscleblind-like 2-Mediated Alternative Splicing in the Developing Brain and Dysregulation in Myotonic Dystrophy
AU - Charizanis, Konstantinos
AU - Lee, Kuang Yung
AU - Batra, Ranjan
AU - Goodwin, Marianne
AU - Zhang, Chaolin
AU - Yuan, Yuan
AU - Shiue, Lily
AU - Cline, Melissa
AU - Scotti, Marina M.
AU - Xia, Guangbin
AU - Kumar, Ashok
AU - Ashizawa, Tetsuo
AU - Clark, H. Brent
AU - Kimura, Takashi
AU - Takahashi, Masanori P.
AU - Fujimura, Harutoshi
AU - Jinnai, Kenji
AU - Yoshikawa, Hiroo
AU - Gomes-Pereira, Mário
AU - Gourdon, Geneviève
AU - Sakai, Noriaki
AU - Nishino, Seiji
AU - Foster, Thomas C.
AU - Ares, Manuel
AU - Darnell, Robert B.
AU - Swanson, Maurice S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank C. Thornton for Mbnl2 GT4 mice, L. Ranum for manuscript comments, and the Research Resource Network Japan for human brain samples. This work was supported by grants from the NIH (NS058901 to M.S.S; K99GM95713 to C.Z.; NS34389 to R.B.D.; GM084317 to M.A.; and AG014979, AG037984, and AG036800 to T.C.F.), the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (T.C.F.), the MDA (4280 to M.S.S., 135140 to M.A.), the NCNP Japan (22-7 to K.J.), and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (22-118 to T.K.).
PY - 2012/8/9
Y1 - 2012/8/9
N2 - The RNA-mediated disease model for myotonic dystrophy (DM) proposes that microsatellite C(C)TG expansions express toxic RNAs that disrupt splicing regulation by altering MBNL1 and CELF1 activities. While this model explains DM manifestations in muscle, less is known about the effects of C(C)UG expression on the brain. Here, we report that Mbnl2 knockout mice develop several DM-associated central nervous system (CNS) features including abnormal REM sleep propensity and deficits in spatial memory. Mbnl2 is prominently expressed in the hippocampus and Mbnl2 knockouts show a decrease in NMDA receptor (NMDAR) synaptic transmission and impaired hippocampal synaptic plasticity. While Mbnl2 loss did not significantly alter target transcript levels in the hippocampus, misregulated splicing of hundreds of exons was detected using splicing microarrays, RNA-seq, and HITS-CLIP. Importantly, the majority of the Mbnl2-regulated exons examined were similarly misregulated in DM. We propose that major pathological features of the DM brain result from disruption of the MBNL2-mediated developmental splicing program.
AB - The RNA-mediated disease model for myotonic dystrophy (DM) proposes that microsatellite C(C)TG expansions express toxic RNAs that disrupt splicing regulation by altering MBNL1 and CELF1 activities. While this model explains DM manifestations in muscle, less is known about the effects of C(C)UG expression on the brain. Here, we report that Mbnl2 knockout mice develop several DM-associated central nervous system (CNS) features including abnormal REM sleep propensity and deficits in spatial memory. Mbnl2 is prominently expressed in the hippocampus and Mbnl2 knockouts show a decrease in NMDA receptor (NMDAR) synaptic transmission and impaired hippocampal synaptic plasticity. While Mbnl2 loss did not significantly alter target transcript levels in the hippocampus, misregulated splicing of hundreds of exons was detected using splicing microarrays, RNA-seq, and HITS-CLIP. Importantly, the majority of the Mbnl2-regulated exons examined were similarly misregulated in DM. We propose that major pathological features of the DM brain result from disruption of the MBNL2-mediated developmental splicing program.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.05.029
DO - 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.05.029
M3 - Article
C2 - 22884328
AN - SCOPUS:84864912095
SN - 0896-6273
VL - 75
SP - 437
EP - 450
JO - Neuron
JF - Neuron
IS - 3
ER -