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ArticleStem cell reports2023

Mowat-Wilson syndrome factor ZEB2 controls early formation of human neural crest through BMP signaling modulation.

Rebekah M Charney, Maneeshi S Prasad, Czarina Juan-Sing, Lipsa J Patel, Jacqueline C Hernandez, Jie Wu, Martín I García-Castro

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Article in Stem cell reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rebekah M CharneyDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA. Electronic address: rmcharney@gmail.com.
Maneeshi S PrasadDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Czarina Juan-SingDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Lipsa J PatelDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Jacqueline C HernandezDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Jie WuDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Martín I García-CastroDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA. Electronic address: martin.garcia-castro@ucr.edu.
University of California, Riverside · USUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Molecular Interactions During Neural Crest FormationR01DE017914 · NIDCR · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GARCIA-CASTRO, MARTIN I. · 2007 to 2025
$6.3M
The role of the transcriptional repressor ZEB2 in human neural crest cell formation and craniofacial pathologyK99DE029878 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI CHARNEY, REBEKAH · 2020 to 2022
$305k
Identification of a novel regulatory program underlying the early specification of Neural Crest cellsF32DE027862 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI CHARNEY, REBEKAH · 2018 to 2020
$133k
NIDCR NIH HHS F32 DE027862NIDCR NIH HHS K99 DE029878NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE017914
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mowat-Wilson syndrome is caused by mutations in ZEB2, with patients exhibiting characteristics indicative of neural crest (NC) defects. We examined the contribution of ZEB2 to human NC formation using a model based on human embryonic stem cells. We found ZEB2 to be one of the earliest factors expressed in prospective human NC, and knockdown revealed a role for ZEB2 in establishing the NC state while repressing pre-placodal and non-neural ectoderm genes. Examination of ZEB2 N-terminal mutant NC cells demonstrates its requirement for the repression of enhancers in the NC gene network and proper NC cell terminal differentiation into osteoblasts and peripheral neurons and neuroglia. This ZEB2 mutation causes early misexpression of BMP signaling ligands, which can be rescued by the attenuation of BMP. Our findings suggest that ZEB2 regulates early human NC specification by modulating proper BMP signaling and further elaborate the molecular defects underlying Mowat-Wilson syndrome.

Indexed as

Homeodomain ProteinsNeural CrestFaciesHirschsprung DiseaseHumansIntellectual DisabilityMicrocephalyProspective StudiesRepressor ProteinsZinc Finger E-box Binding Homeobox 2Homeodomain ProteinsRepressor ProteinsZEB2 protein, humanZinc Finger E-box Binding Homeobox 2ATAC-seqepigeneticshuman embryonic stem cellsneural crestNuRDosteoblastsperipheral neuronsRNA-seqSchwann cellsZEB2

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PMID37890485
PMCPMC10679662
OpenAlexW4387956486

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