Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14228, USA.
Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14228, USA.
Int J Mol Sci. 2024 May 22;25(11):5647. doi: 10.3390/ijms25115647.
As human progenitor cells differentiate into neurons, the activities of many genes change; these changes are maintained within a narrow range, referred to as genome homeostasis. This process, which alters the synchronization of the entire expressed genome, is distorted in neurodevelopmental diseases such as schizophrenia. The coordinated gene activity networks formed by altering sets of genes comprise recurring coordination modules, governed by the entropy-controlling action of nuclear FGFR1, known to be associated with DNA topology. These modules can be modeled as energy-transferring circuits, revealing that genome homeostasis is maintained by reducing oscillations (noise) in gene activity while allowing gene activity changes to be transmitted across networks; this occurs more readily in neuronal committed cells than in neural progenitors. These findings advance a model of an "entangled" global genome acting as a flexible, coordinated homeostatic system that responds to developmental signals, is governed by nuclear FGFR1, and is reprogrammed in disease.
当人类祖细胞分化为神经元时,许多基因的活性会发生变化;这些变化被维持在一个狭窄的范围内,称为基因组稳态。在精神分裂症等神经发育性疾病中,这一改变整个表达基因组同步性的过程会发生扭曲。通过改变基因集形成的协调基因活性网络由核 FGFR1 控制的熵调节作用组成,已知其与 DNA 拓扑结构有关。这些模块可以被建模为能量传递电路,表明基因组稳态通过减少基因活性的振荡(噪声)来维持,同时允许基因活性变化在网络中传递;在神经元定向细胞中比在神经祖细胞中更容易发生这种情况。这些发现提出了一个“纠缠”的全局基因组模型,作为一个灵活的、协调的稳态系统,对发育信号作出反应,受核 FGFR1 控制,并在疾病中重新编程。