Mutation in Eftud2 causes craniofacial defects in mice via mis-splicing of Mdm2 and increased P53

Author:

Beauchamp Marie-Claude1,Djedid Anissa2,Bareke Eric2,Merkuri Fjodor3,Aber Rachel4,Tam Annie S56,Lines Matthew A7,Boycott Kym M7,Stirling Peter C56,Fish Jennifer L3,Majewski Jacek2,Jerome-Majewska Loydie A1248

Affiliation:

1. Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre at Glen Site, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada

2. Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada

3. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA

4. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B2, Canada

5. Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada

6. Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada

7. CHEO Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada

8. Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada

Abstract

Abstract EFTUD2 is mutated in patients with mandibulofacial dysostosis with microcephaly (MFDM). We generated a mutant mouse line with conditional mutation in Eftud2 and used Wnt1-Cre2 to delete it in neural crest cells. Homozygous deletion of Eftud2 causes brain and craniofacial malformations, affecting the same precursors as in MFDM patients. RNAseq analysis of embryonic heads revealed a significant increase in exon skipping and increased levels of an alternatively spliced Mdm2 transcript lacking exon 3. Exon skipping in Mdm2 was also increased in O9-1 mouse neural crest cells after siRNA knock-down of Eftud2 and in MFDM patient cells. Moreover, we found increased nuclear P53, higher expression of P53-target genes and increased cell death. Finally, overactivation of the P53 pathway in Eftud2 knockdown cells was attenuated by overexpression of non-spliced Mdm2, and craniofacial development was improved when Eftud2-mutant embryos were treated with Pifithrin-α, an inhibitor of P53. Thus, our work indicates that the P53-pathway can be targeted to prevent craniofacial abnormalities and shows a previously unknown role for alternative splicing of Mdm2 in the etiology of MFDM.

Funder

FQRS

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

NIH

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation

Genome Quebec

Genome British Columbia

Genome Alberta

Ontario Research Fund

Genome Canada and the Ontario Genomics Institute

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Genetics(clinical),Genetics,Molecular Biology,General Medicine

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