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ArticleNature communications2025

Accelerated epigenetic aging in Huntington's disease involves polycomb repressive complex 1.

Baptiste Brulé, Rafael Alcalá-Vida, Noémie Penaud, Jil Scuto, Coline Mounier, Jonathan Seguin, Sina Vincent Khodaverdian, Brigitte Cosquer, Etienne Birmelé, Stéphanie Le Gras and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Baptiste BruléLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-8241-6059
Rafael Alcalá-VidaLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3540-645X
Noémie PenaudLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-6593-9806
Jil ScutoLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-5093-0674
Coline MounierLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.
Jonathan SeguinLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-0437
Sina Vincent KhodaverdianUniversity of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Brigitte CosquerLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.
Etienne BirmeléUniversity of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Stéphanie Le GrasUniversity of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6293-6507
Charles DecraeneLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.
Anne-Laurence BoutillierLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2317-9280
Karine MerienneLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France. karine.merienne@unistra.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2549-2315

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) ANR-2017-CE12-0027, ANR-2022-CE12-0033, ANR-10-INSN-0009Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Foundation for Medical Research in France) Bernadette et Pierre Duban price
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Loss of epigenetic information during physiological aging compromises cellular identity, leading to de-repression of developmental genes. Here, we assessed the epigenomic landscape of vulnerable neurons in two reference mouse models of Huntington neurodegenerative disease (HD), using cell-type-specific multi-omics, including temporal analysis at three disease stages via FANS-CUT&Tag. We show accelerated de-repression of developmental genes in HD striatal neurons, involving histone re-acetylation and depletion of H2AK119 ubiquitination and H3K27 trimethylation marks, which are catalyzed by polycomb repressive complexes 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2), respectively. We further identify a PRC1-dependent subcluster of bivalent developmental transcription factors that is re-activated in HD striatal neurons. This mechanism likely involves progressive paralog switching between PRC1-CBX genes, which promotes the upregulation of normally low-expressed PRC1-CBX2/4/8 isoforms in striatal neurons, alongside the down-regulation of predominant PRC1-CBX isoforms in these cells (e.g., CBX6/7). Collectively, our data provide evidence for PRC1-dependent accelerated epigenetic aging in HD vulnerable neurons.

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AgingCorpus StriatumEpigenesis, GeneticHuntington DiseasePolycomb Repressive Complex 1AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMaleMedium Spiny NeuronsMiceMice, TransgenicPolycomb-Group ProteinsPolycomb-Group ProteinsPolycomb Repressive Complex 1

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PMID39934111
PMCPMC11814324

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