Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Defective metabolic programming impairs early neuronal morphogenesis in neural cultures and an organoid model of Leigh syndrome

  • Gizem Inak,
  • Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf,
  • Pawel Lisowski,
  • Tancredi M. Pentimalli,
  • René Jüttner,
  • Petar Glažar,
  • Karan Uppal,
  • Emanuela Bottani,
  • Dario Brunetti,
  • Christopher Secker,
  • Annika Zink,
  • David Meierhofer,
  • Marie-Thérèse Henke,
  • Monishita Dey,
  • Ummi Ciptasari,
  • Barbara Mlody,
  • Tobias Hahn,
  • Maria Berruezo-Llacuna,
  • Nikos Karaiskos,
  • Michela Di Virgilio,
  • Johannes A. Mayr,
  • Saskia B. Wortmann,
  • Josef Priller,
  • Michael Gotthardt,
  • Dean P. Jones,
  • Ertan Mayatepek,
  • Werner Stenzel,
  • Sebastian Diecke,
  • Ralf Kühn,
  • Erich E. Wanker,
  • Nikolaus Rajewsky,
  • Markus Schuelke,
  • Alessandro Prigione

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22117-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Leigh syndrome (LS) is a severe neurometabolic disorder which lacks effective models. Here, the authors developed human neuronal models of LS carrying mutations in SURF1 which show impaired neuronal morphogenesis due to metabolic deficiencies.