Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Age-related and disease locus-specific mechanisms contribute to early remodelling of chromatin structure in Huntington’s disease mice

  • Rafael Alcalá-Vida,
  • Jonathan Seguin,
  • Caroline Lotz,
  • Anne M. Molitor,
  • Ibai Irastorza-Azcarate,
  • Ali Awada,
  • Nezih Karasu,
  • Aurélie Bombardier,
  • Brigitte Cosquer,
  • Jose Luis Gomez Skarmeta,
  • Jean-Christophe Cassel,
  • Anne-Laurence Boutillier,
  • Thomas Sexton,
  • Karine Merienne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20605-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The dynamics of chromatin and transcriptional changes underlying Huntington’s disease remain poorly understood. Here the authors use a Huntington’s mouse model to profile the striatal chromatin landscape, finding that the Huntington’s mutation accelerates age-dependent epigenetic and transcriptional changes, and locally affects 3D chromatin organization.