Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Pharmacological rescue in patient iPSC and mouse models with a rare DISC1 mutation

  • Nam-Shik Kim,
  • Zhexing Wen,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Ying Zhou,
  • Ziyuan Guo,
  • Chongchong Xu,
  • Yu-Ting Lin,
  • Ki-Jun Yoon,
  • Junhyun Park,
  • Michelle Cho,
  • Minji Kim,
  • Xinyuan Wang,
  • Huimei Yu,
  • Srilatha Salamuru,
  • Kimberly M. Christian,
  • Kuei-sen Hsu,
  • Menghang Xia,
  • Weidong Li,
  • Christopher A. Ross,
  • Russell L. Margolis,
  • Xin-Yun Lu,
  • Hongjun Song,
  • Guo-li Ming

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21713-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Previous work has shown in iPSC derived neurons that synaptic impairments are associated with a 4bp DISC1 deletion. Here the authors demonstrate a role for the PDE4 signalling pathway in these synaptic impairments.