Transcriptome analyses suggest minimal effects of Shank3 dosage on directional gene expression changes in the mouse striatum

Yeunkum Lee, Hyojin Kang, Chunmei Jin, Yinhua Zhang, Yoonhee Kim, Kihoon Han

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Abstract

Both deletions and duplications of the SH3 and multiple ankyrin repeat domains 3 (SHANK3) gene, encoding excitatory postsynaptic scaffolds, are causally associated with various brain disorders, suggesting that proper Shank3 dosage is critical for normal brain development and function. In addition to its well-established synaptic functions, recent studies have suggested that Shank3 can also affect gene expression in the nucleus. However, it has not been investigated whether there are a group of genes whose directional expression is regulated in a Shank3 dosage-dependent manner (i.e. showing opposite changes in expression following Shank3 reduction and overexpression). This is an important issue to be examined for better understanding why neuronal development and function are sensitive to Shank3 dosage, and how much transcriptional changes contribute to neuronal phenotypes affected by Shank3 dosage. To examine this, we performed transcriptome analyses on the striatum of Shank3 heterozygous and knock-out mice, which identified three and 17 differentially expressed genes, respectively. We then compared the results to those of our previous striatal transcriptome analysis of Shank3 overexpressing mice and identified 31 candidate genes showing directional expression changes in a Shank3 dosage-dependent manner. However, overall, their Shank3 dosage-dependent fold changes were very subtle (average of absolute log2(fold change) was 0.139). Meanwhile, the gene set enrichment analyses of the striatal transcriptome suggested that Shank3 dosage may affect anchoring junction-related functions. Taken together, these results suggest that Shank3 dosage minimally affects directional gene expression changes in the mouse striatum.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)270-274
Number of pages5
JournalAnimal Cells and Systems
Volume23
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Jul 4

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (NRF-2015M3C7A1028790, NRF-2018R1C1B6001235, NRF-2018M3C7A1024603 and NRF-2018R1A6A3A11040508), by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (K-19-L02-C07-S01).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

  • Shank3 dosage
  • striatum
  • transcriptome

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

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