Abstract
The neuronal primary cilium and centriolar satellites have functions in neurogenesis, but little is known about their roles in the postnatal brain. We show that ablation of pericentriolar material 1 in the mouse leads to progressive ciliary, anatomical, psychomotor, and cognitive abnormalities. RNAseq reveals changes in amine- and G-protein coupled receptor pathways. The physiological relevance of this phenotype is supported by decreased available dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) levels and the failure of antipsychotic drugs to rescue adult behavioral defects. Immunoprecipitations show an association with Pcm1 and D2Rs. Finally, we sequence PCM1 in two human cohorts with severe schizophrenia. Systematic modeling of all discovered rare alleles by zebrafish in vivo complementation reveals an enrichment for pathogenic alleles. Our data emphasize a role for the pericentriolar material in the postnatal brain, with progressive degenerative ciliary and behavioral phenotypes; and they support a contributory role for PCM1 in some individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 5903 |
Journal | Nature communications |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2020 |
Funding
We thank Dr. Edwin Oh for initiating the project and contributing to several experiments, E. Golden, K. Childs, and K. Bendt for assistance with mouse husbandry, J. Crowley and R. Nonneman for assistance with haloperidol dosing, and T. Rhodes and C. Means for conducting behavioral experiments and pharmacology in the Mouse Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Analysis Core Facility at Duke University. Histology services were provided by the Northwestern University Mouse Histology and Phenotyping Laboratory, supported by NCI P30-CA060553 awarded to the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. Some of the equipment and software used in the behavioral studies were purchased with a grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed at the Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy and the NIH/NIBIB National Biomedical Technology Resource Center (P41 EB015897). This work was supported by NIH grants: 5T32DK108738-04 (T.O.M.), U54 HG002373 (R.A.G.), Silvo O. Conte Center grant MH084018 (N.K. and A.S.). N.K. holds the Valerie and George D. Kennedy Professorship in Human Genetics. Investigators were blinded to genotype.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Physics and Astronomy