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Potassium channel regulators are differentially expressed in hippocampi of Ts65Dn and Tc1 Down syndrome mouse models

Shani Stern, Rinat Keren, Yongsung Kim, Elisha Moses
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/467522
Shani Stern
1Laboratory of Genetics, Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA, Email:
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Rinat Keren
2Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science P.O. Box 26, Rehovot 76100 Israel, Email:
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Yongsung Kim
3Laboratory of Genetics, Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA, Email:
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Elisha Moses
4Department of Physics of Complex Systems Weizmann Institute of Science P.O. Box 26, Rehovot 76100 Israel, Email:
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Abstract

Background: Down syndrome remains the main genetic cause of intellectual disability, with an incidence rate of about 1 in 700 live births. The Ts65Dn mouse strain, with an extra murine chromosome that includes genes from chromosomes 10, 16 and 17 of the mouse and the Tc1 strain with an extra human chromosome 21, are currently accepted as informative and well-studied models for Down Syndrome. Using whole cell patch clamp we recently showed changes in several types of transmembrane currents in hippocampal neuronal cultures of Ts65Dn and Tc1 embryos. The associated genetic changes responsible for these changes in physiology were yet to be studied.

Methods: We used qPCR to measure RNA expression level of a few of the channel genes that we suspect are implicated in the previously reported changes of measured currents, and performed statistical analysis using Matlab procedures for the standard t-test and ANOVA and for calculating correlations between the RNA expression levels of several channel genes.

Results: We present differential gene expression levels measured using qPCR of the potassium channel regulators KCNE1 and KCNE2 in both Ts65Dn and Tc1 embryos and pups compared to controls. In Tc1, the human genes KCNJ6 and KCNJ15 are expressed in addition to a statistically insignificant increase of expression in the mouse genes KCNJ6 and KCNJ15. All channel genes that we have measured with large replication, have the same up-regulation or down-regulation in both mouse models, indicating that the transcription mechanism acts similarly in these two mouse models. The large dataset furthermore allows us to observe correlations between different channel genes. We find that, despite the significant changes in expression levels, channels that are known to interact have a high and significant correlation in expression both in controls and in the Down syndrome mouse model.

Conclusions: We suggest the differential expression of KCNE1 and KCNE2 as a possible cause for our previously reported changes in potassium currents. We report a KCNJ6 and KCNJ15 overexpression, which plays a role in the increased input conductance and the reduced cell excitability that we previously reported in the Tc1 mouse model. The large and significant positive (KCNQ2-KCNQ3, KCNE1-KCNE2, KCNQ3-KCNE1, KCNQ2-KCNE1, KCNQ2-KCNE2, KCNQ3-KCNE2) and negative correlations (KCNE1-KCNJ15, KCNE2-KCNJ15) that we find between channel genes indicate that these genes probably work in a cooperative or in a mutually exclusive manner.

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Potassium channel regulators are differentially expressed in hippocampi of Ts65Dn and Tc1 Down syndrome mouse models
Shani Stern, Rinat Keren, Yongsung Kim, Elisha Moses
bioRxiv 467522; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/467522
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Potassium channel regulators are differentially expressed in hippocampi of Ts65Dn and Tc1 Down syndrome mouse models
Shani Stern, Rinat Keren, Yongsung Kim, Elisha Moses
bioRxiv 467522; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/467522

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