Ultrasonic vocalization impairment of Foxp2 (R552H) knockin mice related to speech-language disorder and abnormality of Purkinje cells
| Autor: | Mariko Y. Momoi, Akira Shiota, Masatsugu Ueda, Eriko Fujita, Yuko Tanabe, Takashi Momoi, Kiyotaka Suwa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Cerebellum Genotype Thalamus Mutation Missense Hippocampus Mice Transgenic Striatum medicine.disease_cause Mice Purkinje Cells Internal medicine Cortex (anatomy) medicine Animals Ultrasonics DNA Primers Genetics Mutation Language Disorders Multidisciplinary biology Histocytochemistry FOXP2 Forkhead Transcription Factors Biological Sciences Microarray Analysis Repressor Proteins Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure nervous system Synaptophysin biology.protein Vocalization Animal |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105(8) |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 |
| Popis: | Previous studies have demonstrated that mutation in the forkhead domain of the forkhead box P2 (FOXP2) protein (R553H) causes speech-language disorders. To further analyze FOXP2 function in speech learning, we generated a knockin (KI) mouse for Foxp2 (R552H) [Foxp2 (R552H)-KI], corresponding to the human FOXP2 (R553H) mutation, by homologous recombination. Homozygous Foxp2 (R552H)-KI mice showed reduced weight, immature development of the cerebellum with incompletely folded folia, Purkinje cells with poor dendritic arbors and less synaptophysin immunoreactivity, and achieved crisis stage for survival 3 weeks after birth. At postnatal day 10, these mice also showed severe ultrasonic vocalization (USV) and motor impairment, whereas the heterozygous Foxp2 (R552H)-KI mice exhibited modest impairments. Similar to the wild-type protein, Foxp2 (R552H) localized in the nuclei of the Purkinje cells and the thalamus, striatum, cortex, and hippocampus (CA1) neurons of the homozygous Foxp2 (R552H)-KI mice (postnatal day 10), and some of the neurons showed nuclear aggregates of Foxp2 (R552H). In addition to the immature development of the cerebellum, Foxp2 (R552H) nuclear aggregates may further compromise the function of the Purkinje cells and cerebral neurons of the homozygous mice, resulting in their death. In contrast, heterozygous Foxp2 (R552H)-KI mice, which showed modest impairment of USVs with different USV qualities and which did not exhibit nuclear aggregates, should provide insights into the common molecular mechanisms between the mouse USV and human speech learning and the relationship between the USV and motor neural systems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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