1. APC7 mediates ubiquitin signaling in constitutive heterochromatin in the developing mammalian brain
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Ferguson, Cole J, Urso, Olivia, Bodrug, Tatyana, Gassaway, Brandon M, Watson, Edmond R, Prabu, Jesuraj R, Lara-Gonzalez, Pablo, Martinez-Chacin, Raquel C, Wu, Dennis Y, Brigatti, Karlla W, Puffenberger, Erik G, Taylor, Cora M, Haas-Givler, Barbara, Jinks, Robert N, Strauss, Kevin A, Desai, Arshad, Gabel, Harrison W, Gygi, Steven P, Schulman, Brenda A, Brown, Nicholas G, and Bonni, Azad
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Biochemistry and Cell Biology ,Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Biological Sciences ,Genetics ,Brain Disorders ,Neurosciences ,1.1 Normal biological development and functioning ,Underpinning research ,Neurological ,Adolescent ,Animals ,Antigens ,CD ,Apc7 Subunit ,Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome ,Behavior ,Animal ,Brain ,Cadherins ,Cell Line ,Child ,Child ,Preschool ,Disease Models ,Animal ,Female ,Heterochromatin ,Humans ,Infant ,Intellectual Disability ,Intelligence ,Ki-67 Antigen ,Male ,Mice ,Inbred C57BL ,Mice ,Knockout ,Mitosis ,Mutation ,Neural Stem Cells ,Neurogenesis ,Proteolysis ,Signal Transduction ,Syndrome ,Ubiquitination ,Young Adult ,APC7 ,Cdh1 ,Ki-67 ,anaphase-promoting complex ,brain ,chromatin ,heterochromatin ,neurodevelopment ,ubiquitin ,ubiquitin ligase ,Medical and Health Sciences ,Developmental Biology ,Biological sciences ,Biomedical and clinical sciences ,Health sciences - Abstract
Neurodevelopmental cognitive disorders provide insights into mechanisms of human brain development. Here, we report an intellectual disability syndrome caused by the loss of APC7, a core component of the E3 ubiquitin ligase anaphase promoting complex (APC). In mechanistic studies, we uncover a critical role for APC7 during the recruitment and ubiquitination of APC substrates. In proteomics analyses of the brain from mice harboring the patient-specific APC7 mutation, we identify the chromatin-associated protein Ki-67 as an APC7-dependent substrate of the APC in neurons. Conditional knockout of the APC coactivator protein Cdh1, but not Cdc20, leads to the accumulation of Ki-67 protein in neurons in vivo, suggesting that APC7 is required for the function of Cdh1-APC in the brain. Deregulated neuronal Ki-67 upon APC7 loss localizes predominantly to constitutive heterochromatin. Our findings define an essential function for APC7 and Cdh1-APC in neuronal heterochromatin regulation, with implications for understanding human brain development and disease.
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- 2022