autism and nrcam
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Autism and NrCAM. Brett Maricque. Image from http://newparent.com/blogs/new-parent-report/saliva-test-for-autism-in-the-works/. Autism. Developmental disorder characterized by social impairments, communication problems, unusual/repetitive mannerisms, etc. [1,2] Group of disorders known - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Autism and NrCAM
Brett Maricque
Image from http://newparent.com/blogs/new-parent-report/saliva-test-for-autism-in-the-works/
Autism
Developmental disorder characterized by social impairments, communication problems,unusual/repetitive mannerisms, etc. [1,2]
Group of disorders known as autism spectrum disorders (ASD) [3] CASE 1 CASE 2
1970s: ~ 1 in 2,500 children2009: ~ 1 in 150 children
Statistics from National Institute of Health, Autism Fact Sheet, 2009. Image from http://www.displaysforschools.com/autism.gif
Image from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00640/news-graphics-2007-_640547a.jpg. Data from http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/spa/ovidweb.cgi
Headlines from Washington Post (top) at washingtonpost.com and NY Times (middle, bottom) at nytimes.com. Image from http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/jenny-mccarthy-jim-carrey.jpg
Disease-gene association Haplotype mapping
Is NrCAM an appropriate target gene?
Image fromhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18664314?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
NrCAM structure I-set Ig FN3
Homo sapiens isoform A
Homo sapiens isoform B
Pan troglodytes
Mus musculus
Rattus norvegicus
Caenorhabditis elegans
(LAD-1)
Drosophila melanogaster
(neuroglian)Modified from http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/.
NrCAM functionality
Gene Ontology:
neuron migration
axon fasciculation
synaptogenesis
central nervous system development
cell-cell adhesion
ankyrin binding
integral to plasma membrane
Homo sapiens isoform A
Gene ontology from GO Consortium at http://www.geneontology.org/. Images from http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/structure.
Ig domain
I-set domain
FN3 domain
Gene homologuesD. melanogaster Neuroglian:Martin V Author , et al.The L1-type cell adhesion molecule Neuroglian is necessaryfor maintenance of sensory axon advance in the Drosophila embryo. Neural Dev 3, 10(2008).
C. elegans LAD-1:Wang X Author , et al.The C. elegans L1CAM homologue LAD-2 functions as acoreceptor in MAB-20/Sema2 mediated axon guidance. J Cell Biol 180, 233 46(2008).
Chen L . Et al. LAD-1 the Caenorhabditis elegans L1CAM homologue, participates inembryonic and gonadal morhogenesis and is a sucstrate for fibroblast growth factorreceptor pathway-dependent phosphotyrosine-based J Cell Biol 154, 841 55(2001).
Upregulated LAD-1 expression in nervous system during morphogenesis, localized in plasma membrane of neurons.
Image from WormBase at http://www.wormbase.org/db/gene/expression?name=Expr1650
NrCAM localiztion
11.5 week old embryonic mouse
Localization in the spinal cord
Image from http://www.abcam.com/NrCAM-antibody-Neuronal-Marker-ab24344.html
NrCAM phylogeneyClustalW alignment [4]
MUSCLE alignment
[4]
Phylogenetic trees taken from Phylogeney.fr at http://www.phylogeny.fr/
NrCAM interactions
Protein network from STRING 8.0 at http://string.embl.de/newstring_cgi/show_network_section.pl. Protein
information from GeneCards at http://www.genecards.org/index.shtml.
LEF1: Wnt signaling pathway, transcriptional activator
ALCAM: T-cell and B-cell binding, neural cell interactions
ANK2: cell motility, maintenance of specialized membrane domains
ANK3: membrane-cytoskeleton linker, adhesion molecule targeting
Why are these relationships important?
Interactions with neuronalnetwork-associated proteins
Support for functionalityhypotheses
Provides targets for futurestudies
How do these proteins worktogether during development?
Image from http://kirstyne.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/cartoon2.jpg
Future directionsLarger GWAS: polymorphisms associated with autismLocalization studies: protein interactions, tissue specificityAnimal models: functionality of the protein, how do mutant
proteins functionKO phenotype Mutant phenotype
Gene therapy: NrCAM replacement
When is NrCAM functionally important?Developmentally? Clinical relevance of our currentknowledge? Social implications?
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Take home messages
Social effects of autism needparticular attention
NrCAM seems to be a good targetgene for autism research
Thank you!
Questions??
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References
1. Autism Society of America. About Autism. Retrieved February 1, 2009 from ハ http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_home
2. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Autism Fact Sheet. Retrieved February 2, 2009 fromhttp://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm
3. Fighting Autism. Autism Prevalence, Public Schools State Rankings. Retrieved February 2, 2009 from http://www.fightingautism.org/idea/autism-state-rankings.php
4. Dereeper A., Guignon V., Blanc G., Audic S., Buffet S., Chevenet F., Dufayard J.-F., Guindon S., Lefort V., Lescot M., Claverie J.-M., Gascuel O. Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist Nucleic Acids Research. 2008 Jul 1; 36 (Web Server Issue):W465-9. Epub 2008 Apr 19.