PUBLICATION

Single-copy Loss of Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor 10 ( arhgef10) Causes Locomotor Abnormalities in Zebrafish Larvae

Authors
Zhang, Y., An, M.X., Gong, C., Li, Y.Y., Wang, Y.T., Lin, M., Li, R., Tian, C.
ID
ZDB-PUB-220127-4
Date
2022
Source
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES   35: 35-44 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
CRISPR/Cas9, Copy loss, Haploinsufficiency, Zebrafish, arhgef10
MeSH Terms
  • Spectrophotometry/methods
  • Animals
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Phenotype
  • Blotting, Western
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction/standards
  • CRISPR-Associated Protein 9
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Annexin A5
  • Cell Line
  • Sincalide/analysis
  • Larva/genetics
  • Larva/physiology
  • RNA/isolation & purification
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Cell Proliferation
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/physiology*
  • Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/genetics*
  • Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/metabolism
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Apoptosis
  • CRISPR-Cas Systems
PubMed
35078560 Full text @ Biomed. Environ. Sci.
Abstract
To determine if ARHGEF10 has a haploinsufficient effect and provide evidence to evaluate the severity, if any, during prenatal consultation.
Zebrafish was used as a model for generating mutant. The pattern of arhgef10 expression in the early stages of zebrafish development was observed using whole-mount in situ hybridization (WISH). CRISPR/Cas9 was applied to generate a zebrafish model with a single-copy or homozygous arhgef10 deletion. Activity and light/dark tests were performed in arhgef10-/-, arhgef10+/-, and wild-type zebrafish larvae. ARHGEF10 was knocked down using small interferon RNA (siRNA) in the SH-SY5Y cell line, and cell proliferation and apoptosis were determined using the CCK-8 assay and Annexin V/PI staining, respectively.
WISH showed that during zebrafish embryonic development arhgef10 was expressed in the midbrain and hindbrain at 36-72 h post-fertilization (hpf) and in the hemopoietic system at 36-48 hpf. The zebrafish larvae with single-copy and homozygous arhgef10 deletions had lower exercise capacity and poorer responses to environmental changes compared to wild-type zebrafish larvae. Moreover, arhgef10 -/- zebrafish had more severe symptoms than arhgef10 +/- zebrafish. Knockdown of ARHGEF10 in human neuroblastoma cells led to decreased cell proliferation and increased cell apoptosis.
Based on our findings, ARHGEF10 appeared to have a haploinsufficiency effect.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping