Zeljko Tomljanovic1,2, Mitesh Patel1,2, William Shin3, Andrea Califano3, Andrew F Teich1,2. 1. Department of Pathology and Cell Biology. 2. Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain. 3. Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Abstract
Motivation: In an effort to better understand the molecular drivers of synaptic and neurophysiologic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we analyzed neuronal gene expression data from human AD brain tissue to identify master regulators of synaptic gene expression. Results: Master regulator analysis identifies ZCCHC17 as normally supporting the expression of a network of synaptic genes, and predicts that ZCCHC17 dysfunction in AD leads to lower expression of these genes. We demonstrate that ZCCHC17 is normally expressed in neurons and is reduced early in the course of AD pathology. We show that ZCCHC17 loss in rat neurons leads to lower expression of the majority of the predicted synaptic targets and that ZCCHC17 drives the expression of a similar gene network in humans and rats. These findings support a conserved function for ZCCHC17 between species and identify ZCCHC17 loss as an important early driver of lower synaptic gene expression in AD. Availability and implementation: Matlab and R scripts used in this paper are available at https://github.com/afteich/AD_ZCC. Contact: aft25@cumc.columbia.edu. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Motivation: In an effort to better understand the molecular drivers of synaptic and neurophysiologic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we analyzed neuronal gene expression data from humanAD brain tissue to identify master regulators of synaptic gene expression. Results: Master regulator analysis identifies ZCCHC17 as normally supporting the expression of a network of synaptic genes, and predicts that ZCCHC17 dysfunction in AD leads to lower expression of these genes. We demonstrate that ZCCHC17 is normally expressed in neurons and is reduced early in the course of AD pathology. We show that ZCCHC17 loss in rat neurons leads to lower expression of the majority of the predicted synaptic targets and that ZCCHC17 drives the expression of a similar gene network in humans and rats. These findings support a conserved function for ZCCHC17 between species and identify ZCCHC17 loss as an important early driver of lower synaptic gene expression in AD. Availability and implementation: Matlab and R scripts used in this paper are available at https://github.com/afteich/AD_ZCC. Contact: aft25@cumc.columbia.edu. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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