Dynamic molecular network analysis of iPSC-Purkinje cells differentiation delineates roles of ISG15 in SCA1 at the earliest stage Abstract Journal

Dynamic molecular network analysis of iPSC-Purkinje cells differentiation delineates roles of ISG15 in SCA1 at the earliest stage Abstract Journal

Better understanding of the earliest molecular pathologies of all neurodegenerative diseases is expected to improve human therapeutics. We investigated the earliest molecular pathology of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), a rare familial neurodegenerative disease that primarily induces death and dysfunction of cerebellum Purkinje cells. Extensive prior studies have identified involvement of transcription or RNA-splicing factors in the molecular pathology of SCA1. However, the regulatory network of SCA1 pathology, especially central regulators of the earliest developmental stages and inflammatory events, remains incompletely understood. Here, we elucidated the earliest developmental pathology of SCA1 using originally developed dynamic molecular network analyses of sequentially acquired RNA-seq data during differentiation of SCA1 patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to Purkinje cells. Dynamic molecular network analysis implicated histone genes and cytokine-relevant immune response genes at the earliest stages of development, and revealed relevance of ISG15 to the following degradation and accumulation of mutant ataxin-1 in Purkinje cells of SCA1 model mice and human patients.

A simulation result of iMAD, a new method of dynamic molecular network analysis. This method can visualize "cause-result relationships" of chronological changes of molecular networks.

Purple lines show a cytokine-relevant molecular network connected from iPSCs stage to 18 months of age of mice.

ISG15 inhibites proteolysis by binding to poly-ubituitin on Atxn1 protein directory (left), or ubiquitinated Atxn1 proteins(right).

ISG15 levels in plasma of non-neurological disease controls or SCA1 patients.

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Homma, H., Yoshioka, Y., Fujita, K., Shirai, S., Hama, Y., Komano, H., Saito, Y., Yabe, I., Okano, H., Sasaki, H., Tanaka, H. & Okazawa, H. (2024)
Dynamic molecular network analysis of iPSC-Purkinje cells differentiation delineates roles of ISG15 in SCA1 at the earliest stage.
Commun. Biol. 9 April 2024, 7 (1), 413. doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-06066-z