Overexpression of H3K36 methyltransferase NSD in glial cells affects brain development in Drosophila.

Glia
Taejoon KimIm-Soon Lee

Abstract

NSD1 is a histone methyltransferase that methylates the lysine 36 at histone H3. NSD duplication is associated with short stature, microcephaly, intellectual disability, and behavioral defects in humans. Ectopic overexpression of NSD, an NSD1 homolog in Drosophila, was shown to induce developmental abnormalities via apoptosis. In this study, to investigate the effects of NSD overexpression on Drosophila brain development, we first examined the typical NSD expression pattern in larval brains and found that endogenous NSD promoter activity was detected only in subsets of glial cells. Pan-glial, but not pan-neuronal, NSD overexpression induced apoptosis in larval brain cells. However, pan-glial NSD overexpression also induced caspase-3 cleavage in neuronal cells. Among the various glial cell types, NSD overexpression in only astrocytic glia induced apoptosis and abnormal learning defects in the larval stage. Furthermore, NSD overexpression downregulated the expression of various astrocyte-specific genes, including draper (drpr), possibly owing to an indirect effect of NSD overexpression-induced astrocytic apoptosis. Since drpr plays a role in axon pruning during mushroom body (MB) formation in Drosophila astrocytes, we examined th...Continue Reading

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Jul 15, 2020·International Journal of Molecular Sciences·Taejoon KimIm-Soon Lee
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