Thursday, January 26, 2023

TMEM161B modulates radial glial scaffolding in neocortical development

Wang L, Heffner C, Vong KI, Barrows C, Ha YJ, Lee S, Lara-Gonzalez P, Jhamb I, Van Der Meer D, Loughnan R, Parker N, Sievert D, Mittal S, Issa MY, Andreassen OA, Dale A, Dobyns WB, Zaki MS, Murray SA, Gleeson JG. TMEM161B modulates radial glial scaffolding in neocortical development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan 24;120(4):e2209983120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209983120. Epub 2023 Jan 20. PMID: 36669109.

Abstract

TMEM161B encodes an evolutionarily conserved widely expressed novel 8-pass transmembrane protein of unknown function in human. Here we identify TMEM161B homozygous hypomorphic missense variants in our recessive polymicrogyria (PMG) cohort. Patients carrying TMEM161B mutations exhibit striking neocortical PMG and intellectual disability. Tmem161b knockout mice fail to develop midline hemispheric cleavage, whereas knock-in of patient mutations and patient-derived brain organoids show defects in apical cell polarity and radial glial scaffolding. We found that TMEM161B modulates actin filopodia, functioning upstream of the Rho-GTPase CDC42. Our data link TMEM161B with human PMG, likely regulating radial glia apical polarity during neocortical development.

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