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ArticleCells2025

Epigenetic Modifiers to Treat Retinal Degenerative Diseases.

Evgenya Y Popova, Lisa Schneper, Aswathy Sebastian, Istvan Albert, Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J Barnstable

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Article in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Evgenya Y PopovaDepartment of Neuroscience, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6164-262X
Lisa SchneperDepartment of Molecular and Precision Medicine, Institute for Personalized Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1365-1000
Aswathy SebastianDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4936-5564
Istvan AlbertDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8366-984X
Joyce Tombran-TinkDepartment of Neuroscience, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Colin J BarnstableDepartment of Neuroscience, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Funding

Epigenetic Modifiers to treat Photoreceptor DegenerationsR41EY035180 · NEI · SKYRAN BIOLOGICS, INC. · PI TOMBRAN-TINK, JOYCE · 2023 to 2023
$150k
NEI NIH HHS R41 EY035180NIH HHS 1R41EY035180-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have previously demonstrated the ability of inhibitors of LSD1 and HDAC1 to block rod degeneration, preserve vision, maintain transcription of rod photoreceptor genes, and downregulate transcripts involved in cell death, gliosis, and inflammation in the mouse model of Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), rd10. To extend our findings, we tested the hypothesis that this effect was due to altered chromatin structure by using a range of inhibitors of chromatin condensation to prevent photoreceptor degeneration in the rd10 mouse model. We used inhibitors for both G9A/GLP, which catalyzes methylation of H3K9, and EZH2, which catalyzes trimethylation of H3K27, and compared them to the actions of inhibitors of LSD1 and HDAC. All the inhibitors are likely to decondense chromatin and all preserve, to different extents, retinas from degeneration in rd10 mice, but they act through different metabolic pathways. One group of inhibitors, modifiers for LSD1 and EZH2, demonstrate a high level of maintenance of rod-specific transcripts, activation of Ca

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticRetinal DegenerationAnimalsChromatinDisease Models, AnimalEnhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 ProteinHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHistone DemethylasesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsRetinitis PigmentosaChromatinEnhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 ProteinHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHistone Demethylaseschromatinepigeneticretina degenerationrod photoreceptor

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PMID40643481
PMCPMC12248477

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