2024
CC2D1A causes ciliopathy, intellectual disability, heterotaxy, renal dysplasia, and abnormal CSF flow
Kim A, Sakin I, Viviano S, Tuncel G, Aguilera S, Goles G, Jeffries L, Ji W, Lakhani S, Kose C, Silan F, Oner S, Kaplan O, Group M, Ergoren M, Mishra-Gorur K, Gunel M, Sag S, Temel S, Deniz E. CC2D1A causes ciliopathy, intellectual disability, heterotaxy, renal dysplasia, and abnormal CSF flow. Life Science Alliance 2024, 7: e202402708. PMID: 39168639, PMCID: PMC11339347, DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202402708.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDevelopmental disabilitiesIntellectual disabilityPatient-derived fibroblastsMidbrain regionsBrain developmentDefective ciliogenesisCSF circulationDisabilityCSF flowAbnormal CSF flowNervous system developmentMutant tadpolesCiliated tissuesMultiple model systemsVariant functionPronephric ductUnrelated familiesCC2D1AExpression patternsCiliogenesisRenal dysplasiaLeft-right organizerFunctional analysisDisease mechanismsBrain
2022
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus
Duy PQ, Weise SC, Marini C, Li XJ, Liang D, Dahl PJ, Ma S, Spajic A, Dong W, Juusola J, Kiziltug E, Kundishora AJ, Koundal S, Pedram MZ, Torres-Fernández LA, Händler K, De Domenico E, Becker M, Ulas T, Juranek SA, Cuevas E, Hao LT, Jux B, Sousa AMM, Liu F, Kim SK, Li M, Yang Y, Takeo Y, Duque A, Nelson-Williams C, Ha Y, Selvaganesan K, Robert SM, Singh AK, Allington G, Furey CG, Timberlake AT, Reeves BC, Smith H, Dunbar A, DeSpenza T, Goto J, Marlier A, Moreno-De-Luca A, Yu X, Butler WE, Carter BS, Lake EMR, Constable RT, Rakic P, Lin H, Deniz E, Benveniste H, Malvankar NS, Estrada-Veras JI, Walsh CA, Alper SL, Schultze JL, Paeschke K, Doetzlhofer A, Wulczyn FG, Jin SC, Lifton RP, Sestan N, Kolanus W, Kahle KT. Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus. Nature Neuroscience 2022, 25: 458-473. PMID: 35379995, PMCID: PMC9664907, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01043-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCongenital hydrocephalusCerebral ventricular dilatationPrimary defectNeuroepithelial cell differentiationRisk genesCerebrospinal fluid homeostasisWhole-exome sequencingNeuroepithelial stem cellsCortical hypoplasiaReduced neurogenesisVentricular dilatationVentricular enlargementCH mutationsPrenatal hydrocephalusDisease heterogeneityBrain surgeryCSF circulationHydrocephalusGenetic subtypesFluid homeostasisNeuroepithelial cellsNovo mutationsBrain transcriptomicsStem cellsCell differentiation
2020
In Xenopus ependymal cilia drive embryonic CSF circulation and brain development independently of cardiac pulsatile forces
Dur AH, Tang T, Viviano S, Sekuri A, Willsey HR, Tagare HD, Kahle KT, Deniz E. In Xenopus ependymal cilia drive embryonic CSF circulation and brain development independently of cardiac pulsatile forces. Fluids And Barriers Of The CNS 2020, 17: 72. PMID: 33308296, PMCID: PMC7731788, DOI: 10.1186/s12987-020-00234-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCSF circulationOptical coherence tomographyCSF flowVentricular systemEpendymal ciliaCoherence tomographyBrain developmentCross-sectional imaging modalitiesBrain ventricular systemEarly time pointsVentricular morphologyCerebral ventricleRespiratory forceConclusionsOur dataCerebrospinal fluidChoroid plexusVentricular spaceCardiac forceEmbryonic brainPulsatile forcesDeadly diseaseTime pointsImaging modalitiesOCT imagingPathological expansion