LSD1 Regulates Neurogenesis in Human Neural Stem Cells Through the Repression of Human-Enriched Extracellular Matrix and Cell Adhesion Genes

Overview

Journal Stem Cells

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Cell Biology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2023 Dec 28

PMID 38152966

Authors

Asha S Channakkar

Leora DSouza

Aparajita Kumar

Kishan Kalia

Srilekha Prabhu

Kruttika Phalnikar

Puli Chandramouli Reddy

Bhavana Muralidharan

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Abstract

Neurogenesis begins with neural stem cells undergoing symmetric proliferative divisions to expand and then switching to asymmetric differentiative divisions to generate neurons in the developing brain. Chromatin regulation plays a critical role in this switch. Histone lysine-specific demethylase LSD1 demethylates H3K4me1/2 and H3K9me1/2 but the mechanisms of its global regulatory functions in human neuronal development remain unclear. We performed genome-wide ChIP-seq of LSD1 occupancy, RNA-seq, and Histone ChIP-seq upon LSD1 inhibition to identify its repressive role in human neural stem cells. Novel downstream effectors of LSD1 were identified, including the Notch signaling pathway genes and human-neural progenitor-enriched extracellular matrix (ECM) pathway/cell adhesion genes, which were upregulated upon LSD1 inhibition. LSD1 inhibition led to decreased neurogenesis, and overexpression of downstream effectors mimicked this effect. Histone ChIP-seq analysis revealed that active and enhancer markers H3K4me2, H3K4me1, and H3K9me1 were upregulated upon LSD1 inhibition, while the repressive H3K9me2 mark remained mostly unchanged. Our work identifies the human-neural progenitor-enriched ECM pathway/cell adhesion genes and Notch signaling pathway genes as novel downstream effectors of LSD1, regulating neuronal differentiation in human neural stem cells.

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