Project description:Monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders provide key insights into the pathogenesis of disease and help us understand how specific genes control the development of the human brain. Timothy syndrome is caused by a missense mutation in the L-type calcium channel Cav1.2 that is associated with developmental delay and autism. We generated cortical neuronal precursor cells and neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells derived from individuals with Timothy syndrome. Cells from these individuals have defects in calcium (Ca2+) signaling and activity-dependent gene expression and show abnormalities in differentiation. Neurons from individuals with Timothy syndrome show increased expression of markers of the upper cortical layer and decreased expression of callosal projection markers. In addition, the mutation that causes Timothy syndrome leads to an increase in the production of neurons that synthesize norepinephrine and dopamine. This phenotype can be reversed by treatment with roscovitine, a cyclin-dependent kinase and atypical L-type–channel blocker. These findings provide strong evidence that Cav1.2 regulates the differentiation of cortical neurons in humans and offer new insights into the causes of autism in individuals with Timothy syndrome. Total RNA was isolated from control and TS cells: fibroblasts, iPSCs, neurospheres (at day 7 in suspension), neurons at rest (day 45 of differentiation) and neurons kept in 67mM KCl for 9h. For sample titles, D1,D2 and D3 represent independent differentiation experiments. The number after - represents the iPSC cell line number. GSE25542_non-normalized.txt.gz contains data for 5 outliers.
Project description:Mutation of marA, rob, and soxS causes a clinical strain of E.coli to be attenuated at d3 post-infection in a mouse model of pyelonephritis, here we extract RNA at d2 post infection to analyze transcriptional differences between the two strains.
2010-10-01 | GSE23417 | GEO
Project description:Gene Mutation Causes a Syndrome of Combined Immunodeficiency
Project description:Monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders provide key insights into the pathogenesis of disease and help us understand how specific genes control the development of the human brain. Timothy syndrome is caused by a missense mutation in the L-type calcium channel Cav1.2 that is associated with developmental delay and autism. We generated cortical neuronal precursor cells and neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells derived from individuals with Timothy syndrome. Cells from these individuals have defects in calcium (Ca2+) signaling and activity-dependent gene expression and show abnormalities in differentiation. Neurons from individuals with Timothy syndrome show increased expression of markers of the upper cortical layer and decreased expression of callosal projection markers. In addition, the mutation that causes Timothy syndrome leads to an increase in the production of neurons that synthesize norepinephrine and dopamine. This phenotype can be reversed by treatment with roscovitine, a cyclin-dependent kinase and atypical L-type–channel blocker. These findings provide strong evidence that Cav1.2 regulates the differentiation of cortical neurons in humans and offer new insights into the causes of autism in individuals with Timothy syndrome.
Project description:The aim of this study was to understand why two siblings carrying both the same homozygous causal mutation for the auto-inflammatory disease hyper IgD syndrome show opposite phenotypes, i.e. the first being asymptomatic, the second presenting all classical characteristics of the disease.
Project description:The locations of mammalian recombination hotspots are determined by PRDM9, a zinc finger histone methyltransferase that locally trimethylates histone H3 at residues K4 and K36. Here we report Prdm9-EP, a glu365pro mutation that severely reduces catalytic activity in vivo. This mutation causes sterility with complete meiotic arrest in homozygous males, while homozygous females are able to produce live offspring in natural matings. These H3K4me3 ChIP-seq data from Prdm9-EP homozygous spermatocytes show the extent to which H3K4 methyltransferase activity is compromised by this mutation, while the DMC1 ChIP-seq data show its effect on meiotic double-strand breaks in spermatocytes. For comparison, we mapped previously reported H3K4me3 ChIP-seq data from wild-type C57BL/6J spermatocytes (GSE52628) to mm10, merging the two biological replicates (SRX381465 and SRX381466) before mapping, and proceeding with processing. We did the same with published DMC1 ChIP-seq data, merging three previously reported DMC1 ChIP-seq biological replicates, isolated from wild-type C57BL/6N males (GSE112110; SRX3825301, SRX3825302, and SRX3825303). Processed data files are presented here.