PUBLICATION
Rescue of neural crest derived phenotypes in a zebrafish CHARGE model by sox10 downregulation
- Authors
- Asad, Z., Pandey, A., Babu, A., Sun, Y., Shevade, K., Kapoor, S., Ullah, I., Ranjan, S., Scaria, V., Bajpai, R., Sachidanandan, C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160716-5
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Human molecular genetics 25(16): 3539-3554 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Sachidanandan, Chetana
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Morpholinos/genetics
- CHARGE Syndrome/genetics*
- CHARGE Syndrome/pathology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Schwann Cells/metabolism
- Schwann Cells/pathology
- Neural Crest/growth & development
- Neural Crest/pathology
- DNA Helicases/genetics*
- SOXE Transcription Factors/genetics*
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Phenotype
- Disease Models, Animal
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 27418670 Full text @ Hum. Mol. Genet.
Citation
Asad, Z., Pandey, A., Babu, A., Sun, Y., Shevade, K., Kapoor, S., Ullah, I., Ranjan, S., Scaria, V., Bajpai, R., Sachidanandan, C. (2016) Rescue of neural crest derived phenotypes in a zebrafish CHARGE model by sox10 downregulation. Human molecular genetics. 25(16):3539-3554.
Abstract
CHD7 mutations are implicated in a majority of cases of the congenital disorder, CHARGE syndrome. CHARGE, an autosomal dominant syndrome, is known to affect multiple tissues including eye, heart, ear, craniofacial nerves and skeleton and genital organs. Using a morpholino-antisense-oligonucleotide-based zebrafish model for CHARGE syndrome, we uncover a complex spectrum of abnormalities in the neural crest and the crest-derived cell types. We report for the first time, defects in myelinating Schwann cells, enteric neurons and pigment cells in a CHARGE model. We also observe defects in specification of peripheral neurons and craniofacial skeleton as previously reported. Chd7 morphants have impaired migration of neural crest cells and deregulation of sox10 expression from the early stages. Knocking down sox10 in the zebrafish CHARGE model rescued the defects in Schwann cells and craniofacial cartilage. Our zebrafish CHARGE model thus reveals important regulatory roles for Chd7 at multiple points of neural crest development viz., migration, fate choice and differentiation and we suggest that sox10 deregulation is an important driver of the neural crest-derived aspects of chd7 dependent CHARGE syndrome.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping