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ArticleEMBO reports2020

ECE2 regulates neurogenesis and neuronal migration during human cortical development.

Isabel Y Buchsbaum, Pavel Kielkowski, Grazia Giorgio, Adam C O'Neill, Rossella Di Giaimo, Christina Kyrousi, Shahryar Khattak, Stephan A Sieber, Stephen P Robertson, Silvia Cappello

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Article in EMBO reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Isabel Y BuchsbaumMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4539-9038
Pavel KielkowskiDepartment of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany.
Grazia GiorgioMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Adam C O'NeillDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Rossella Di GiaimoMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Christina KyrousiMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Shahryar KhattakDFG Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Stephan A SieberDepartment of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany.
Stephen P RobertsonDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Silvia CappelloMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1553-6775
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry · DECenter for Integrated Protein Science Munich · DEUniversity of Otago · NZTechnische Universität Dresden · DE

Funding

CIPSMDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)ERA-Net E-RareEuropean Research Council (ERC) 725085 - CHEMMINEMax Planck Societythe Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciencesthe Health Research Council of New Zealand and Curekids
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During embryonic development, excitatory projection neurons migrate in the cerebral cortex giving rise to organised layers. Periventricular heterotopia (PH) is a group of aetiologically heterogeneous disorders in which a subpopulation of newborn projection neurons fails to initiate their radial migration to the cortex, ultimately resulting in bands or nodules of grey matter lining the lateral ventricles. Although a number of genes have been implicated in its cause, currently they only satisfactorily explain the pathogenesis of the condition for 50% of patients. Novel gene discovery is complicated by the extreme genetic heterogeneity recently described to underlie its cause. Here, we study the neurodevelopmental role of endothelin-converting enzyme-2 (ECE2) for which two biallelic variants have been identified in two separate patients with PH. Our results show that manipulation of ECE2 levels in human cerebral organoids and in the developing mouse cortex leads to ectopic localisation of neural progenitors and neurons. We uncover the role of ECE2 in neurogenesis, and mechanistically, we identify its involvement in the generation and secretion of extracellular matrix proteins in addition to cytoskeleton and adhesion.

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NeurogenesisPeriventricular Nodular HeterotopiaCell MovementCerebral CortexFemaleHumansNeuronsPregnancycerebral organoidsendothelin-converting enzyme-2human cortical developmentneuronal migration disordersperiventricular heterotopia

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PMID32207244
PMCPMC7202216
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