PUBLICATION
Deficiency of nde1 in zebrafish induces brain inflammatory responses and autism-like behavior
- Authors
- Zhang, Q., Li, T., Lin, J., Zhang, Y., Li, F., Chen, X., Wang, X., Li, Q.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-220305-9
- Date
- 2022
- Source
- iScience 25: 103876 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Li, Qiang, Wang, Xu
- Keywords
- Biological sciences, Developmental neuroscience, Molecular neuroscience, Transcriptomics
- MeSH Terms
- none
- PubMed
- 35243238 Full text @ iScience
Citation
Zhang, Q., Li, T., Lin, J., Zhang, Y., Li, F., Chen, X., Wang, X., Li, Q. (2022) Deficiency of nde1 in zebrafish induces brain inflammatory responses and autism-like behavior. iScience. 25:103876.
Abstract
The cytoskeletal protein NDE1 plays an important role in chromosome segregation, neural precursor differentiation, and neuronal migration. Clinical studies have shown that NDE1 deficiency is associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders including autism. Here, we generated nde1 homologous deficiency zebrafish (nde1-/- ) to elucidate the cellular molecular mechanisms behind it. nde1-/- exhibit increased neurological apoptotic responses at early infancy, enlarged ventricles, and shrank valvula cerebelli in adult brain tissue. Behavioral analysis revealed that nde1-/- displayed autism-like behavior traits such as increased locomotor activity and repetitive stereotype behaviors and impaired social and kin recognition behaviors. Furthermore, nde1 mRNA injection rescued apoptosis in early development, and minocycline treatment rescued impaired social behavior and overactive motor activity by inhibiting inflammatory cytokines. In this study, we revealed that nde1 homozygous deletion leads to abnormal neurological development with autism-related behavioral phenotypes and that inflammatory responses in the brain are an important molecular basis behind it.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping