Project description:Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) patients demonstrate visuospatial dysfunction and impaired performance in tasks requiring recognition or memory of figures and objects. In DM1, CUG expansion RNAs inactivate the Muscleblind-like (MBNL) proteins. We show that constitutive Mbnl2 inactivation in Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 mice, selectively impairs object recognition memory in the novel object recognition test. When exploring the context of a novel arena in which the objects are later encountered, the Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 dorsal hippocampus responds with a lack of enrichment for learning and memory related pathways, mounting instead transcriptome alterations predicted to impair growth and neuron viability. In Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 mice, saturation effects may prevent deployment of a functionally relevant transcriptome response during novel context exploration. Post-novel context exploration alterations in genes implicated in tauopathy and dementia are observed in the Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 dorsal hippocampus. Thus MBNL2 inactivation in DM1 patients may alter novel context processing in the dorsal hippocampus and impair object recognition memory.
Project description:Patients with myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) demonstrate visuospatial dysfunction and impaired performance in tasks requiring recognition or memory of figures and objects. In DM1, CUG expansion RNAs inactivate the muscleblind-like (MBNL) proteins. We show that constitutive Mbnl2 inactivation in Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 mice selectively impairs object recognition memory in the novel object recognition test. When exploring the context of a novel arena in which the objects are later encountered, the Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 dorsal hippocampus responds with a lack of enrichment for learning and memory-related pathways, mounting instead transcriptome alterations predicted to impair growth and neuron viability. In Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 mice, saturation effects may prevent deployment of a functionally relevant transcriptome response during novel context exploration. Post-novel context exploration alterations in genes implicated in tauopathy and dementia are observed in the Mbnl2ΔE2/ΔE2 dorsal hippocampus. Thus, MBNL2 inactivation in patients with DM1 may alter novel context processing in the dorsal hippocampus and impair object recognition memory.
Project description:The transcriptome-wide response of hypoxic breast cancer cells upon MBNL2 knockdown was analyzed. Differential gene expression and alternative splicing were investigated.
Project description:We report a spatial transcriptomics dataset of mouse brain tissue generated with the 10x Genomics Visium platform to identify gene expression profiles of spatial object recognition training.
Project description:To investigate the impact of Mbnl2 and Mbnl3 in placenta development and function, we have generated RNA-seq data from placenta from single and double KO mice at different developmental stages.
Project description:To investigate the impact of Mbnl2 and Mbnl3 in placenta development and function through the regulation of alternative poly-adenylation, we have generated 3'-seq data from placenta from single and double KO mice at different developmental stages.
Project description:While analyzing mRNA expression profiles of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) tumors, we found that the mRNAs that are bound at their 3' UTRs by muscleblind-like splicing regulator 2 (Mbnl2) and epithelial splicing regulatory protein 2 (ESRP2) are up-regulated in tumor compared to patient-matched normal tissues. Given that MBNL2 increases the stability of its targets and ESRP2 destabilizes its targets, we predicted that, in ccRCC tumors, MBNL2 activity increases, while ESRP2 activity decreases. To investigate the effect of each of these two RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) on the transcriptome of the cell, we used shRNA to knockdown MBNL2 in two different cell line models of ccRCC (786-O and A-498), and also to knockdown ESRP2 in normal primary renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (PRPTEC). RNA-seq revealed that MBNL2 knockdown partially reverses the ccRCC-associated transcriptome in ccRCC cell lines, whereas ESRP2 knockdown shifts the transcriptome of PRPTEC toward that of ccRCC.