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Convergent evidence that oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) and interacting genes influence susceptibility to schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Abnormal oligodendrocyte function has been postulated as a primary etiological event in schizophrenia. Oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) encodes a transcription factor central to oligodendrocyte development. Analysis of OLIG2 in a case-control sample (n = approximately 1,400) in the U.K. revealed several SNPs to be associated with schizophrenia (minimum P = 0.0001, gene-wide P = 0.0009). To obtain independent support for this association, we sought evidence for genetic interaction between OLIG2 and three genes of relevance to oligodendrocyte function for which we have reported evidence for association with schizophrenia: CNP, NRG1, and ERBB4. We found interaction effects on disease risk between OLIG2 and CNP (minimum P = 0.0001, corrected P = 0.008) for interaction with ERBB4 (minimum P = 0.002, corrected P = 0.04) but no evidence for interaction with NRG1. To investigate the biological plausibility of the interactions, we sought correlations between the expression of the genes. The results were similar to those of the genetic interaction analysis. OLIG2 expression significantly correlated in cerebral cortex with CNP (P < 10(-7)) and ERBB4 (P = 0.002, corrected P = 0.038) but not NRG1. In mouse striatum, Olig2 and Cnp expression also was correlated, and linkage analysis for trans-effects on gene expression suggests that each locus regulates the other's expression. Our data provide strong convergent evidence that variation in OLIG2 confers susceptibility to schizophrenia alone and as part of a network of genes implicated in oligodendrocyte function.

SUBMITTER: Georgieva L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1567903 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Convergent evidence that oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) and interacting genes influence susceptibility to schizophrenia.

Georgieva Lyudmila L Moskvina Valentina V Peirce Tim T Norton Nadine N Bray Nicholas J NJ Jones Lesley L Holmans Peter P Macgregor Stuart S Zammit Stanley S Wilkinson Jennifer J Williams Hywel H Nikolov Ivan I Williams Nigel N Ivanov Dobril D Davis Kenneth L KL Haroutunian Vahram V Buxbaum Joseph D JD Craddock Nick N Kirov George G Owen Michael J MJ O'Donovan Michael C MC

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060804 33

Abnormal oligodendrocyte function has been postulated as a primary etiological event in schizophrenia. Oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) encodes a transcription factor central to oligodendrocyte development. Analysis of OLIG2 in a case-control sample (n = approximately 1,400) in the U.K. revealed several SNPs to be associated with schizophrenia (minimum P = 0.0001, gene-wide P = 0.0009). To obtain independent support for this association, we sought evidence for genetic inter ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundOligodendrocytes, responsible for axon ensheathment, are critical for central nervous system (CNS) development, function, and diseases. OLIG2 is an important transcription factor (TF) that acts during oligodendrocyte development and performs distinct functions at different stages. Previous studies have shown that lncRNAs (long non-coding RNAs; > 200 bp) have important functions during oligodendrocyte development, but their roles have not been systematically characterized and their regulation is not yet clear.ResultsWe performed an integrated study of genome-wide OLIG2 binding and the epigenetic modification status of both coding and non-coding genes during three stages of oligodendrocyte differentiation in vivo: neural stem cells (NSCs), oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), and newly formed oligodendrocytes (NFOs). We found that 613 lncRNAs have OLIG2 binding sites and are expressed in at least one cell type, which can potentially be activated or repressed by OLIG2. Forty-eight of them have increased expression in oligodendrocyte lineage cells. Predicting lncRNA functions by using a "guilt-by-association" approach revealed that the functions of these 48 lncRNAs were enriched in "oligodendrocyte development and differentiation." Additionally, bivalent genes are known to play essential roles during embryonic stem cell differentiation. We identified bivalent genes in NSCs, OPCs, and NFOs and found that some bivalent genes bound by OLIG2 are dynamically regulated during oligodendrocyte development. Importantly, we unveiled a previously unknown mechanism that, in addition to transcriptional regulation via DNA binding, OLIG2 could self-regulate through the 3' UTR of its own mRNA.ConclusionsOur studies have revealed the missing links in the mechanisms regulating oligodendrocyte development at the transcriptional level and after transcription. The results of our research have improved the understanding of fundamental cell fate decisions during oligodendrocyte lineage formation, which can enable insights into demyelination diseases and regenerative medicine.

Project description:The protein arginine methyl transferase PRMT5 is an enzyme expressed in oligodendrocyte lineage cells and responsible for the symmetric methylation of arginine residues on histone tails. Previous work from our laboratory identified PRMT5 as critical for myelination, due to its transcriptional regulation of survival and early stages of differentiation. However, besides its nuclear localization, PRMT5 is found at high levels in the cytoplasm of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) and yet, its interacting partners and non-histone substrates in this lineage, remain elusive. By using mass spectrometry on protein eluates from extracts generated from OPC and immunoprecipitated with PRMT5 antibodies, we identified 1116 proteins as PRMT5 interacting partners. These proteins are related to molecular functions such as RNA binding, ribosomal structure, nucleotide binding, cadherin and actin binding, GTP and GTPase activity. We then investigated PRMT5 substrates using iTRAQ-based proteomics on protein samples isolated from CRISPR-PRMT5 knockdown immortalized oligodendrocyte progenitors compared to CRISPR-EGFP controls. This analysis identified 169 peptides with statistically different symmetric methylation of arginine residues in the two groups. Those peptides led to 30 unique non-histone substrates of PRMT5. The majority of these proteins were consistent with PRMT5 substrates, previously identified in distinct cancer cell lines (e.g. the transcription factor ZN326), and were functionally related to RNA processing and transport, splicing, regulation of mRNA stability and transcription. In addition, we detected three substrates as unique to the oligodendrocyte lineage and not identified in cancer cells. They included the proline-rich protein PRC2C, involved in methyl-RNA binding, the RNA binding protein KHDR2, regulating splicing events and the heterogeneous nuclear RNA binding protein HNRPD, involved in regulation of RNA stability. Together, these results highlight a cell-specific role of PRMT5 in regulating, not only transcription, but RNA processing and translation in OPCs. (287 WORDS)

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Convergent evidence that oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) and interacting genes influence susceptibility to schizophrenia.

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