Inactivation of the microRNA-183/96/182 cluster results in syndromic retinal degeneration

Autor: Shunbin Xu, Caroline E. Haldin, Daniel A. Nicholson, Donald J. Zack, Peter E. Larsen, Karl J. Wahlin, Colleen Cowan, Sanja Turturro, David Valle, Stephen Lumayag, Beatrix Kovacs, P. Dane Witmer, Nicola J. Corbett
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Lumayag, S, Haldin, C E, Corbett, N J, Wahlin, K J, Cowan, C, Turturro, S, Larsen, P E, Kovacs, B, Witmer, P D, Valle, D, Zack, D J, Nicholson, D A & Xu, S 2013, ' Inactivation of the microRNA-183/96/182 cluster results in syndromic retinal degeneration ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 110, no. 6, pp. E507-E516 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212655110
Popis: The microRNA -183/96/182 cluster is highly expressed in the retina and other sensory organs. To uncover its in vivo functions in the retina, we generated a knockout mouse model, designated “ miR-183C GT/GT ,” using a gene-trap embryonic stem cell clone. We provide evidence that inactivation of the cluster results in early-onset and progressive synaptic defects of the photoreceptors, leading to abnormalities of scotopic and photopic electroretinograms with decreased b -wave amplitude as the primary defect and progressive retinal degeneration. In addition, inactivation of the miR-183/96/182 cluster resulted in global changes in retinal gene expression, with enrichment of genes important for synaptogenesis, synaptic transmission, photoreceptor morphogenesis, and phototransduction, suggesting that the miR-183/96/182 cluster plays important roles in postnatal functional differentiation and synaptic connectivity of photoreceptors.
Databáze: OpenAIRE