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BRN2 and PTN unveil multiple neurodevelopmental mechanisms in Schizophrenia patient-derived cerebral organoids

View ORCID ProfileMichael Notaras, Aiman Lodhi, Friederike Dundar, Paul Collier, Nicole Sayles, Hagen Tilgner, David Greening, Dilek Colak
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.10.447949
Michael Notaras
1Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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Aiman Lodhi
1Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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Friederike Dundar
2Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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Paul Collier
1Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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Nicole Sayles
1Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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Hagen Tilgner
1Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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David Greening
3La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
4Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
5Baker Institute & Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
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Dilek Colak
1Center for Neurogenetics, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
6Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
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Due to an inability to ethically access developing human brain tissue as well as identify prospective cases, early-arising neurodevelopmental and cell-specific signatures of Schizophrenia (Scz) have remained unknown and thus undefined. To overcome these challenges, we utilized Scz patient-derived stem cells to generate 3D cerebral organoids to model neuropathology of Scz during this critical period. We discovered that Scz organoids exhibited ventricular neuropathology resulting in altered progenitor survival and disrupted neurogenesis. This ultimately yielded fewer neurons within developing cortical fields of Scz organoids. Single-cell sequencing revealed that Scz progenitors were specifically depleted of neuronal programming factors leading to a remodeling of cell-lineages, altered differentiation trajectories, and distorted cortical cell-type diversity. While Scz organoids were 99.95% similar in their macromolecular diversity to Ctrls, four GWAS factors (PTN, COMT, PLCL1, and PODXL) and peptide fragments belonging to the POU-domain transcription factor family (e.g. POU3F2/BRN2) were altered. This revealed that Scz organoids principally differed not in their proteomic diversity, but specifically in their total quantity of disease and neurodevelopmental factors at the molecular level. Single-cell sequencing also subsequently identified cell-type specific alterations in neuronal programming factors and growth factors, and specifically replicated the depletion of POU3F2 (BRN2) and PTN in both Scz progenitors and neurons. Consequently, in two mechanistic rescue experiments we identified that the transcription factor POU3F2 (BRN2) and growth factor PTN operate as mechanistic substrates of neurogenesis and cellular survival, respectively, in Scz organoids. This suggests that multiple mechanisms of Scz exist in patient-derived organoids, and that these disparate mechanisms converge upon primordial brain developmental pathways such as neuronal differentiation, survival, and growth factor support, which may amalgamate to elevate intrinsic risk of Scz.

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BRN2 and PTN unveil multiple neurodevelopmental mechanisms in Schizophrenia patient-derived cerebral organoids
Michael Notaras, Aiman Lodhi, Friederike Dundar, Paul Collier, Nicole Sayles, Hagen Tilgner, David Greening, Dilek Colak
bioRxiv 2021.06.10.447949; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.10.447949
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BRN2 and PTN unveil multiple neurodevelopmental mechanisms in Schizophrenia patient-derived cerebral organoids
Michael Notaras, Aiman Lodhi, Friederike Dundar, Paul Collier, Nicole Sayles, Hagen Tilgner, David Greening, Dilek Colak
bioRxiv 2021.06.10.447949; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.10.447949

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