Restoration of progranulin expression rescues cortical neuron generation in an induced pluripotent stem cell model of frontotemporal dementia

Abstract: To understand how haploinsufficiency of progranulin (PGRN) causes frontotemporal dementia (FTD), we created induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients carrying the GRNIVS1+5G > C mutation (FTD-iPSCs). FTD-iPSCs were fated to cortical neurons, the cells most affected in FTD. Although generation of neuroprogenitors was unaffected, their further differentiation into CTIP2-, FOXP2-, or TBR1-TUJ1 double-positive cortical neurons, but not motorneurons, was significantly decreased in FTD-neural progeny. Zinc finger nuclease-mediated introduction of GRN cDNA into the AAVS1 locus corrected defects in cortical neurogenesis, demonstrating that PGRN haploinsufficiency causes inefficient cortical neuron generation. RNA sequencing analysis confirmed reversal of the altered gene expression profile following genetic correction. We identified the Wnt signaling pathway as one of the top defective pathways in FTD- iPSC-derived neurons, which was reversed following genetic correction. Differentiation of FTD-iPSCs in the presence of a WNT inhibitor mitigated defective corticogenesis. Therefore, we demonstrate that PGRN haploinsufficiency hampers corticogenesis in vitro

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Stem cell reports. - 4, 1 (2015) , 16-24, ISSN: 2213-6711

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Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2019
Urheber
Raitano, Susanna
Ordovàs, Laura
De Muynck, Louis
Guo, Wenting
Espuny-Camacho, Ira
Geraerts, Martine
Khurana, Satish
Vanuytsel, Kim
Tóth, Balazs I
Voets, Thomas
Vandenberghe, Rik
Cathomen, Anton
Bosch, Ludo van den
Vanderhaeghen, Pierre
Damme, Philip van
Verfaillie, Catherine M
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DOI
10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.12.001
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1227801
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