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A patient-derived neural stem cell model for hereditary spastic paraplegia

ABSTRACT: Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) leads to progressive gait disturbances with lower limb muscle weakness and spasticity. Mutations in SPG4 are a major cause of autosomal-dominant HSP. Spastin, the protein encoded by SPG4, is a microtubule-severing protein and is enriched in the distal axon of corticospinal motor neurons which degenerate in HSP patients. How SPG4 mutations cause axon degeneration in patients is not understood. Multipotent neural stem cells, accessible from patient olfactory mucosa biopsies, provided a new patient-derived cell models for HSP. Olfactory neurosphere-derived cells were obtained from cohorts of HSP patients with, and without, mutations in SPG4 and from healthy controls. Patient cells had extensive changes in expression of cell cycle-related genes and in genes associated with microtubule formation. Despite this, cell proliferation and metabolic functions of the patient cells were similar to controls. Cells with mutated SPG4 had significantly less spastin and acetylated tubulin but significantly more stathmin, a tubulin-depolymerising protein. These cells also significant deficits in the intracellular distribution of peroxisomes and mitochondria, compared to control cells. This model reveals that SPG4-HSP patient-derived neural stem/progenitors compensate for the cell cycle-related effects of reduced spastin levels in the nucleus, in part by large changes in gene expression, but failed to correct deficits in organelle trafficking. The results raise the question of whether these deficits arise directly from the loss of spastin or indirectly from the compensation. Patient-derived olfactory stem cells provide a new model for examining the neural consequences of human genetic mutations in their natural setting: at normal gene dosages against normal genetic backgrounds.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

DISEASE(S): normal

SUBMITTER: Nicholas Matigian

PROVIDER: E-TABM-1180 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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A patient-derived stem cell model of hereditary spastic paraplegia with SPAST mutations.

Abrahamsen Greger G Fan Yongjun Y Matigian Nicholas N Wali Gautam G Bellette Bernadette B Sutharsan Ratneswary R Raju Jyothy J Wood Stephen A SA Veivers David D Sue Carolyn M CM Mackay-Sim Alan A

Disease models & mechanisms 20121220 2

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) leads to progressive gait disturbances with lower limb muscle weakness and spasticity. Mutations in SPAST are a major cause of adult-onset, autosomal-dominant HSP. Spastin, the protein encoded by SPAST, is a microtubule-severing protein that is enriched in the distal axon of corticospinal motor neurons, which degenerate in HSP patients. Animal and cell models have identified functions of spastin and mutated spastin but these models lack the gene dosage, mutati ...[more]

PMID: 23264559

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Project description:Epigenetics describes mechanisms via which the environment can act on the genome, including DNA methylation of promoter regions of genes. This could be a way that environmental risk factors could affect neurodevelopment in individuals at risk for schizophrenia. Patient-derived cells provide a means whereby epigenetics and gene-environment interactions might be investigated. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) present an attractive patient-derived cellular model because they can be differentiated into cell types of interest in schizophrenia. In this study the influence of the reprogramming process on schizophrenia-associated DNA methylation was investigated through genome-wide DNA methylation profiling and gene expression of patient-derived iPS cells and the fibroblasts from which they were derived. Olfactory neurosphere-derived cells (ONS cells) from the same patients were also profiled to provide a window on epigenetic regulation in three distinct cell types. Patient-derived cell were compared to cells derived from healthy controls to identify differences in DNA methylation and gene expression associated with schizophrenia in three cell types. The main finding is that iPS cells, prior to neuronal differentiation, demonstrated significant schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation. This is in contrast to the fibroblasts from which they were derived, which show lesser schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation. Like iPS cells, ONS cells showed robust significant schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation. Notably, the schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation were unique for each cell type, with little overlap between them, and only 5 genes commonly methylated in all cell types. Gene expression differences among the cell types mirrored the DNA methylation differences in magnitude, again with little overlap in specific genes affected. Gene Ontology analysis of the affected genes identified common cellular process affected in all three cell types without the same genes contributing. These data suggest that most DNA methylation differences are driven by the demands imposed by each cell type with schizophrenia-associated differences also being cell-type specific. Thus DNA methylation may not be a cause of schizophrenia-associated differences in cell functions in these cells but rather a downstream consequence of some unidentified causative mechanisms. This dataset represents the DNA methylation part of the study. The gene expression data is deposited under accession E-MTAB-5016.

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A patient-derived neural stem cell model for hereditary spastic paraplegia

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A patient-derived stem cell model of hereditary spastic paraplegia with SPAST mutations.

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