Journal: Acta Neuropathologica
Article Title: Mitochondrial bioenergetic deficits in C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis motor neurons cause dysfunctional axonal homeostasis
doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02252-5
Figure Lengend Snippet: Transcriptomic analysis revealed reduced gene expression of the mitochondrial electron transport chain in human iPSC-derived C9orf72 -MNs. a Results of differential gene expression analysis, using DESeq2, examining the intersection in commonly and concordantly differentially expressed genes between the two mutant-isogene pairs, using an FDR of 20%, and discarding genes with an average FPKM < 1. The scatter plot shows the comparison of gene expression (as average FPKM). Red and blue data points denote the overlap of significantly up- and down-regulated genes in both mutant-correction pairs, respectively. b Summary of notable results from gene ontology analysis performed on the differentially expressed genes that identified putatively up (red) and down (blue) regulated altered pathways or processes. Average FPKM scatter plots comparing gene expression in C9orf72 mutant versus isogenic controls for two gene sets of interest ( c , mitochondrially encoded mitochondrial transcripts and ( d ) nuclear-encoded mitochondrial transcripts). Competitive gene set testing using CAMERA, examining the differential gene expression for these two gene sets of interest compared with all other genes, showed that mitochondrially encoded transcripts were down-regulated ( p = 7.39 × 10 –20 ), whereas nuclear-encoded mitochondrial transcripts were not ( p = 0.51). e Heatmap summarising the average gene expression (FPKM) of significantly dysregulated genes of complex I (MT-ND1, MT-ND2, MT-ND4, MT-ND4L, MT-ND5) and complex IV (MT-CO2, MT-CO3) subunits of the electron transport chain for C9orf72 versus isogenic control MNs. f Log 10 mean fold change ± SEM of gene expression normalised to the respective isogenic control determined via RT-PCR for C9-1 pair (black bars), C9-2 pair (red bars), and C9-3 pair (green bars) for MT-ND2 and MT-ND4 subunits of complex I; MT-CO2 and MT-CO3 subunits of complex IV; and MT-ATP6 subunit of complex V. g Representative image of western blot of protein lysates from two independent controls [Con-1, Con-2], three independent patient-derived C9orf72 lines [C9-1, C9-2, C9-3] with corresponding isogenic controls [C9-1Δ, C9-2Δ, C9-3Δ] using a primary Total OXPHOS cocktail antibody against multiple mitochondrial electron transport chain subunits. Bands depict protein expression of complex I (NDUFB8; reduced), complex II (SDHB), complex III (UQCRC2), complex IV (MT-CO2; reduced) and complex V (ATP5A), and housekeeper proteins against GAPDH and mitochondrial outer membrane protein, VDAC-1
Article Snippet: Sections were dried overnight at 40 °C and immunostaining was performed, following epitope retrieval in citric acid buffer (pH 6) in a pressure cooker for 30 min, using the rabbit anti-MT-ND2 polyclonal antibody (PA5-103952, InvitrogenTM Thermo Fisher Scientific) at a 1:200 dilution and rabbit anti-MT-CO3 antibody (HPA042788, Sigma-Aldrich ® ) at a 1:50 dilution (both incubated for 30 min at room temperature).
Techniques: Gene Expression, Derivative Assay, Mutagenesis, Comparison, Control, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Western Blot, Expressing, Membrane