The emerging role of chromatin remodelers in neurodevelopmental disorders: a developmental perspective

B Mossink, M Negwer, D Schubert… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including intellectual disability (ID) and autism
spectrum disorders (ASD), are a large group of disorders in which early insults during brain …

How the epigenome integrates information and reshapes the synapse

RR Campbell, MA Wood - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
In the past few decades, the field of neuroepigenetics has investigated how the brain
encodes information to form long-lasting memories that lead to stable changes in behaviour …

Rapid neuronal differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells for measuring network activity on micro-electrode arrays

M Frega, SHC Van Gestel, K Linda… - Journal of …, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neurons derived from human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) provide a promising
new tool for studying neurological disorders. In the past decade, many protocols for …

Neuronal network dysfunction in a model for Kleefstra syndrome mediated by enhanced NMDAR signaling

M Frega, K Linda, JM Keller, G Gümüş-Akay… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Kleefstra syndrome (KS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the
histone methyltransferase EHMT1. To study the impact of decreased EHMT1 function in …

Functional convergence of histone methyltransferases EHMT1 and KMT2C involved in intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder

TS Koemans, T Kleefstra, MC Chubak, MH Stone… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Kleefstra syndrome, caused by haploinsufficiency of euchromatin histone methyltransferase
1 (EHMT1), is characterized by intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) …

Inhibition of EHMT1/2 rescues synaptic and cognitive functions for Alzheimer's disease

Y Zheng, A Liu, ZJ Wang, Q Cao, W Wang, L Lin, K Ma… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic dysregulation, which leads to the alteration of gene expression in the brain, is
suggested as one of the key pathophysiological bases of ageing and neurodegeneration …

Epigenetic etiology of intellectual disability

S Iwase, NG Bérubé, Z Zhou, NN Kasri… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Intellectual disability (ID) is a prevailing neurodevelopmental condition associated with
impaired cognitive and adaptive behaviors. Many chromatin-modifying enzymes and other …

SETD5 regulates chromatin methylation state and preserves global transcriptional fidelity during brain development and neuronal wiring

A Sessa, L Fagnocchi, G Mastrototaro, L Massimino… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Mutations in one SETD5 allele are genetic causes of intellectual disability and autistic
spectrum disorders. However, the mechanisms by which SETD5 regulates brain …

Epigenetic regulation of autophagy-related genes: Implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

EI Lewerissa, N Nadif Kasri, K Linda - Autophagy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionarily highly conserved catabolic process that is
important for the clearance of cytosolic contents to maintain cellular homeostasis and …

Glial sphingosine-mediated epigenetic regulation stabilizes synaptic function in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease

P Yin, Y Cai, T Cui, AJ Berg, T Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Destabilization of neural activity caused by failures of homeostatic regulation has been
hypothesized to drive the progression of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). However, the …