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Galnt17 loss-of-function leads to developmental delay, abnormal coordination, activity, and social interactions, with cerebellar vermis pathology

ABSTRACT: GALNT17 encodes a N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (GalNAc-T) protein specifically involved in mucin-type O-linked glycosylation of target proteins, a process important for cell adhesion, cell signaling, neurotransmitter activity, neurite outgrowth, and neurite sensing. GALNT17, also known as WBSCR17, is located at the edge of the Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS) critical region and adjacent to the AUTS2 locus, genomic regions associated with neurodevelopmental phenotypes that are thought to be co-regulated. Although previous data have implicated Galnt17 in neurodevelopment, the in vivo functions of this gene have not been investigated. In this study, we have analyzed behavioral, brain pathology, and molecular phenotypes exhibited by Galnt17 knockout (Galnt17-/-) mice. We show that Galnt17-/- mutants exhibit developmental neuropathology within the cerebellar vermis, along with abnormal activity, coordination, and social interaction deficits. Transcriptomic and protein analysis revealed reductions in both mucin type O-glycosylation and heparan sulfate synthesis in the developing mutant cerebellum along with disruption of pathways central to neuron differentiation, axon pathfinding, and synaptic signaling, consistent with the mutant neuropathology. These brain and behavioral phenotypes and molecular data confirm a specific role for Galnt17 in brain development and suggest new clues to factors that could contribute to phenotypes in certain WBS and AUTS2 syndrome patients.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE180040 | GEO | 2023/05/03

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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A mouse mutation that dysregulates neighboring Galnt17 and Auts2 genes is associated with phenotypes related to the human AUTS2 syndrome

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Isolated loss of the AUTS2 long isoform, brain-wide or targeted to Calbindin-lineage cells, generates a specific suite of brain, behavioral and molecular pathologies

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Project description:Glycosphingolipid metabolism is reprogrammed during neural development with a switch from globo to ganglio-series glycosphingolipids production. We discovered that globo-series glycosphingolipids repress the epigenetic regulator of neuronal genes expression AUTS2. AUTS2 in turn, binds and activates the promoter of the first and rate limiting ganglioside producing enzyme GM3 synthase, thus fostering the synthesis of gangliosides. By this mechanism the globo-AUTS2 axis controls glycosphingolipid reprogramming and neural genes expression during neural differentiation, which involves this circuit in neurodevelopment and its defects in neuropathology. We report Gb3 globoside suppresses the expression of the epigenetic modulator AUTS2. The silencing of Gb3 synthase in HeLa cells induces the thepletion of Gb3 globoside, consequentially promoting AUTS2 expression. AUTS2 in turn, binds and activates the promoter of the target genes promoting local histone hyperacetylation and gene expression. Thus, the globo-series glycosphingolipids, by counteracting the expression of AUTS2, decrease histone acetylation at neuronal gene promoters repressing their transcription in HeLa cells.

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