The epigenome in neurodevelopmental disorders

J Reichard, G Zimmer-Bensch - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopmental diseases (NDDs), such as autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, and
schizophrenia, are characterized by diverse facets of neurological and psychiatric …

Emerging roles of centrosome cohesion

H Dang, E Schiebel - Open Biology, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The centrosome, consisting of centrioles and the associated pericentriolar material, is the
main microtubule-organizing centre (MTOC) in animal cells. During most of interphase, the …

Loss of non-motor kinesin KIF26A causes congenital brain malformations via dysregulated neuronal migration and axonal growth as well as apoptosis

X Qian, EM DeGennaro, M Talukdar, SK Akula, A Lai… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
Kinesins are canonical molecular motors but can also function as modulators of intracellular
signaling. KIF26A, an unconventional kinesin that lacks motor activity, inhibits growth-factor …

A glance of p53 functions in brain development, neural stem cells, and brain cancer

Y Xiong, Y Zhang, S Xiong, AE Williams-Villalobo - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
p53 is one of the most intensively studied tumor suppressors. It transcriptionally regulates a
broad range of genes to modulate a series of cellular events, including DNA damage repair …

An entosis-like process induces mitotic disruption in Pals1 microcephaly pathogenesis

NA Sterling, JY Park, R Park, SH Cho, S Kim - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Entosis is cell cannibalism utilized by tumor cells to engulf live neighboring cells for pro-or
anti-tumorigenic purposes. It is unknown whether this extraordinary cellular event can be …

Loss of coiled-coil protein Cep55 impairs neural stem cell abscission and results in p53-dependent apoptosis in developing cortex

JN Little, KC McNeely, N Michel, CJ Bott… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
To build the brain, embryonic neural stem cells (NSCs) tightly regulate their cell divisions,
undergoing a polarized form of cytokinesis that is poorly understood. Cytokinetic abscission …

Modeling human primary microcephaly with hiPSC-derived brain organoids carrying CPAP-E1235V disease-associated mutant protein

HL An, HC Kuo, TK Tang - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The centrosome is composed of a pair of centrioles and serves as the major microtubule-
organizing center (MTOC) in cells. Centrosome dysfunction has been linked to autosomal …

Tissue-wide genetic and cellular landscape shapes the execution of sequential PRC2 functions in neural stem cell lineage progression

N Amberg, FM Pauler, C Streicher, S Hippenmeyer - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The generation of a correctly sized cerebral cortex with all-embracing neuronal and glial cell–
type diversity critically depends on faithful radial glial progenitor (RGP) cell proliferation …

P53 independent pathogenic mechanisms contribute to BubR1 microcephaly

NA Sterling, BK Terry, JM McDonnell… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The mosaic variegated aneuploidy (MVA)-associated gene Budding Uninhibited by
Benzimidazole 1B (BUB1B) encodes BUBR1, a core member of the spindle assembly …

[HTML][HTML] Deficient adaptation to centrosome duplication defects in neural progenitors causes microcephaly and subcortical heterotopias

J González-Martínez, AW Cwetsch, D Martínez-Alonso… - Jci Insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Congenital microcephaly (MCPH) is a neurodevelopmental disease associated with
mutations in genes encoding proteins involved in centrosomal and chromosomal dynamics …