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The main goal of this work is to contribute to the existing knowledge of soil micro-fungi in Panama and Germany. Studies about soil degradation and its influents in the soil fungi diversity have not been investigated as extensively in these countries. This is an extensive and challenging topic to examine since there is an immense phenotypic and genetic diversity in the soil fungal community and relating this community together with factors of soil degradation is an extensive task. For this reason, the present thesis studies the species identified in the study areas, in other words, the soil fungal diversity in relation to environmental factors in the Taunus Mountain range in Frankfurt, Germany, and in the Majagua valley in Chiriquí, Panama. Two complementary objectives were achieved, the first was the development of a theoretical irrigation model for degraded soils. The second was the development of a mobile application to facilitate laboratory work in the cultivation of soil micro-fungi.
The design of the methodology was based on identifying the species and relating the diversity found to soil factors. Soil samples were taken in both countries: the Taunus Mountain range was sampled eight times from January to November 2012 and the Majagua valley was sampled on three occasions between February and July 2012. In both studies, the areas included three different vegetation types (forest, grassland, and bare soil). Samples were separated for two purposes: the assessment of fungal diversity by molecular and morphological methods and soil characterization.
Soil samples used in the methodology of pyrosequencing were related to global climatic factors. Morphological identification was achieved with identification keys. Micro-fungi were cultivated in different media until obtaining pure cultures. Molecular identification was performed by getting the DNA sequences using the ITS1 and ITS4 primers and comparing the sequences with other reference sequences from GenBank. This was done considering the BLAST algorithm, which considered sequences that matched 98 % or more of maximum identity as reliable identifications.
Soil characterization was carried out to measure the soil's Physico-chemical properties; those abiotic factors were compaction, temperature, pH, moisture, and soil composition.
Species richness was calculated in each study area with the estimators Chao, Jackknife, and Bootstrap. Furthermore, the species accumulation curves were performed to observe the species discovery rate and estimate sample completeness. Estimate linear regression models correlated the influence between the soil factors (temperature, moisture, pH, soil compaction, and soil composition) and the species richness. In the same way, an analysis of ecological distance was undertaken based on the similarity in the species composition, compared across samples, and correlated with soil factors, using non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDs).
Study of abundance showed differences between the bare soil abundances and the forest abundances in Germany and Panama; the grasslands in both countries work as transitional areas in the fungi abundance. The key stone species in Germany were Penicillium daleae, and Pochonia bulbillosa, whereas in Panama were Purpureocillium lilacinum and Trichoderma harzianum. Based on Pareto analysis, a theoretical irrigation model was developed to counteract the degradation effects on the abundance of micro-fungi in the soil.
Applications for mobile devices dealing with the cultivation of soil micro fungi were sought. Due to the small number of existing applications, a new App called Soil-Fungi-Cultures (SFC) was developed to facilitate data collection of cultivated soil micro fungi. App Inventor was the program used to design, program, test, and publish the application developed. The developed application was compared with other applications used in identifying bacteria cultures. The results showed that the new application needed more time to capture the records because it saves more information, the navigation flow was acceptable, the number of clicks was high, but it is due to the usefulness in data capture, and finally, the users rated it as a good application with an eight out of ten rating.
Pyrosequencing resulted in 204 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) considering the two study areas (the Taunus Mountain range and the Majagua valley). The Pyrosequencing database was used to contribute to the most important study of fungal diversity globally based on OTUs, which surpasses any study of molecular and taxonomic diversity previously conducted. The principal result in this study was that the climatic factor is the best predictor of fungal richness and community composition on a global scale. However, the part of the research that focused on the local scale, that is to say, on the correlation patterns between the distribution of fungal species and abiotic factors, showed that the soil properties and degradation levels were not associated with fungal richness, diversity or soil composition in the study areas in Germany or Panama. The above confirms that there are exceptions to the way relationships between soil factors with fungal diversity are established at the local level.
In the case of soil samples used for morphological identification, 71 fungal species were obtained, 47 from Germany, and 32 from Panama.
RNA modification is a dynamic and complex process that involves the addition of various chemical groups to RNA molecules, contributing to their diversity and functional complexity. Among all the RNA modifications, N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most common post-transcriptional modification found in mRNA molecules, particularly in eukaryotic mRNA. It involves methylation of the adenosine base at the nitrogen-6 position. This modification plays a crucial role in many aspects of RNA metabolism, including splicing, stability, translation, and the cellular response to stress. With the development of m6A sequencing technologies, our knowledge of m6A has evolved rapidly over the past two decades. However, one of the most widely used m6A profiling techniques termed “m6A individual-nucleotide resolution UV cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (miCLIP)” suffers from a high unspecific background signal due to the limited antibody binding specificity.
To accurately discriminate m6A sites from the background signal in miCLIP data, in Chapter 4, I first developed different strategies to identify the true miCLIP2 signal changes that are corrected for the underlying transcript abundance changes. I performed this analysis on data that generated with an improved experiment protocol, named miCLIP2. With the best performing strategy, the Bin-based method, I detected more than 10,000 genuine m6A sites. I then used the information embedded in the genuine m6A sites to train a machine learning model - named "m6Aboost" - to enable accurate m6A site detection from the miCLIP2 data without a control dataset from an m6A depletion cell line. To allow an easy access for future users, I packaged the m6Aboost model into an R package that is available on Bioconductor.
Although previous studies have reported that m6A is involved in three different RNA decay pathways, it remains unclear how a pathway is selected for a specific transcript or m6A site. In Chapter 5, I reveal that m6A sites in the coding sequence (CDS) induce a stronger and faster RNA decay than the m6A sites in the 3’ untranslated region (3’UTR). Through an in-depth investigation, I found that m6A sites in CDS trigger a novel mRNA decay pathway, which I termed CDS-m6A decay (CMD). Importantly, CMD is distinct from the three previously reported m6A-mediated decay pathways. In terms of its mechanism, CMD relies on translation, where m6A sites in the CDS lead to ribosome pausing and subsequent destabilization of the transcript. The transcripts targeted by CMD are identified by the m6A reader protein YTHDF2, preferentially localized to processing bodies (P-bodies), and undergo degradation facilitated by the decapping factor DCP2. CMD provides a flexible way to control the expression of CDS m6A-containing transcripts which include many developmental regulators and retrogenes.
In summary, this PhD thesis introduces a novel workflow for identifying m6A sites in miCLIP data through the implementation of the m6Aboost machine learning model. Using the m6A sites identified by m6Aboost and additional data, a newly uncovered m6A-mediated mRNA decay pathway, CMD, is elucidated, providing valuable insights into m6A-mediated decay processes.
Terpene bilden mit mehr als 81.000 Verbindungen die größte Klasse der Naturstoffe. Nichtsdestotrotz wird ihre strukturelle Vielfalt durch die Isoprenregel begrenzt. Diese besagt, dass alle primären Terpensynthaseprodukte aus Bausteinen mit fünf Kohlenstoffatomen hervorgehen. Ihre Produkte sind somit kanonisch, da sie durch ein Vielfaches von fünf Kohlenstoffatomen dargestellt sind. In dieser kumulativen Arbeit wird die mikrobielle Produktion einer Vielzahl neuartiger nicht-kanonischer Terpene beschrieben und somit der chemische Strukturraum von Terpenoiden über die Grenzen der Isoprenregel hinaus erweitert. Um dies zu erreichen, wurden in verschiedenen Ansätzen die Gene des Mevalonatwege, einschließlich einer IPP-Isomerase gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Prenylpyrosphosphat-Methyltransferasen und Terpensynthasen in E. coli exprimiert und die Produktspektren der Biosynthesewege detailliert untersucht.
Ein breites Spektrum neuer C11-Terpene wurde als Nebenprodukt der bakteriellen 2-Methylisoborneol- oder 2-Methylenbornansynthasen entdeckt. Neben elf bekannten konnten 24 neuartige C11-Terpene nachgewiesen werden, die bisher noch nicht als Terpensynthase-Produkte beschrieben wurden. Vier davon, 3,4-Dimethylcumol, 2-Methylborneol und die beiden Diastereomere von 2-Methylcitronellol, konnten identifiziert werden. Außerdem wurde das C16-Terpen 6-Methylfarnesol als Produkt identifiziert.
Die Produktselektivität einer C11-Terpensynthasen, die 2 Methylenbornansynthase aus Pseudomonas fluorescens, wurde durch einen semirationalen Protein-Engineering-Ansatz verändert. Aminosäuren des aktiven Zentrums mit Einfluss auf die Produktselektivität wurden identifiziert. Entsprechende Varianten des Enzyms führen zu gänzlich veränderten Produktspektren. So wurden neue Einblicke in die Struktur-Funktions-Beziehung für C11-Terpensynthasen gewonnen und bisher unzugängliche nicht-kanonische Terpene produziert.
Eine IPP-Methyltranferase wurde identifiziert und charakterisiert, die den C5-Baustein der Terpenbiosynthese in eine Vielzahl von C6- und C7-Prenylpyrophosphate umwandelt. Die heterologe Expression in E. coli gemeinsam mit anderen Genen der Terpenbiosynthese erweitert das potenzielle Terpensynthase-Substratspektrum außerdem um C11-, C12-, C16- und C17 Prenylpyrosphopshate. Darüber hinaus konnten polymethylierte C41-, C42-und C43-Carotinoide synthetisiert werden. So wurde die Terpenbiosynthese durch die Modifikation ihrer Bausteine erweitert und neue ungewöhnliche Terpene produziert.
The attention on the protein PURA has increased recently following the discovery of the rare PURA Syndrome. This neurodevelopmental disorder is caused by de novo mutations in the PURA gene. Notably, our collaborators could show that the protein PURA can bind DNA and RNA in vitro. As a result, I was motivated to explore PURA's cellular RNAbinding activity. Furthermore, I inquired on the connection of PURA-RNA binding to the cellular effect of a reduction of functional PURA as present in PURA Syndrome patients.
To investigate the binding of PURA and the impact of PURA de ciency on cellular RNA and protein expression, I performed an integrative computational analysis of multimodal data from complementary high-throughput experiments. An essential component was the examination of UV Crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP) experiments, which can query the global RNA-binding behaviour of a given protein in a cellular context. As the processing and analysis of CLIP data are rather complex, I introduce an automated command line tool for the processing of CLIP data named racoon_clip as part of this dissertation. Therefore, this dissertation comprises two major segments. Firstly, I describe the implementation and usage of racoon clip for CLIP data analysis. Secondly, I discuss my research on the protein PURA, demonstrating its global RNA-binding properties, the effects of PURA depletion and its association with neuronal functions and P-bodies, among others.
racoon_clip is a command line application that I have developed for processing of individualnucleotide resolution CLIP (iCLIP) and enhanced CLIP (eCLIP) experiments - two of the most commonly used types of CLIP experiments - in a comparable and user-friendly way.
For this, I built racoon_clip as an automated work how that encompasses all CLIP processing steps from raw data to single-nucleotide resolution crosslink events. racoon_clip is available as a command line tool that users can run with a single command. The work how is implemented with Snakemake work how management providing computational advantage tages including parallelisation, scalability and portability of the work how. The main task of racoon_clip is to extract single-nucleotide crosslink events from iCLIP, iCLIP2, eCLIP and similar data types. To strike a balance between being highly customisable and easy to use, racoon_clip supplies pre-set options for the most common types of experiments.
Additionally, it is possible for users to create a custom setup of barcode and adapter architectures, which allows them to use the software for other types of CLIP data. While accounting for the different architectures in the reads, the performed central processing steps remain the same. This leads to a high degree of comparability between the different experiment types, which I demonstrate in the exemplary processing of U2AF2 iCLIP and eCLIP data. Taken together, I am confident that racoon_clip will be beneficial to numerous researchers interested in RNA-Protein interactions as it offers easily accessible processing for CLIP data and enhances the comparability of multiple CLIP datasets across di erent experiment types.
In the second part of this dissertation, I focus on the cellular function of the RNAbinding protein PURA. Through in-depth computational analysis of one iCLIP data set of endogenous PURA and two iCLIP data sets of overexpressed PURA in HeLa cells, I establish that PURA is a global RNA-binding protein. It preferentially binds RNAs in either the coding sequence (CDS) or the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of mature protein-coding transcripts by recognising a Purine-rich degenerated sequence motif. Even though overexpression of PURA results in less specific binding behaviour, the same overall binding patterns as from endogenous PURA persist. Overall characteristics of PURA binding remain similar in three distinct PURA iCLIP data sets with and without PURA overexpression.
To learn about the molecular consequences of a depletion of functional PURA in a cellular context, I used a 50% reduction of PURA in HeLa cells as a model for the heterozygous loss of PURA in PURA Syndrome and evaluated its impact on global RNA and protein expression. The results demonstrate that PURA depletion globally a ects RNA and protein expression. Additionally, I integrate PURA RNA binding with the changes in expression of RNAs and proteins in the context of PURA depletion. This reveals 234 targets of PURA that are bound by PURA and are impacted at both RNA and protein levels by the PURA protein. RNAs that are bound by PURA or change in abundance upon PURA depletion are enriched in neuronal development factors, RNA lifecycle regulators, and mitochondrial factors, among others. Consistent with a possible role of PURA in neuronal transport, there is considerable overlap between PURA bound transcripts and transcripts, that are transported to the dendritic end of neurons.
Notably, there is a link between PURA and P-bodies, as documented by the enrichment of PURA-bound RNAs in both the P-body and stress granule transcriptome. Further, PURA was found by our collaborators to be localised within P-bodies and P-body numbers were strongly reduced in cells that are depleted of PURA. This absence might be attributed to the downregulation of the proteins encoded by the PURA targets LSM14A and DDX6 as both of them were previously identified as essential for P-body formation.
Overall, the reduction of P-body numbers in PURA depletion, the neuronal function of PURA, and its association with mitochondria and RNA lifecycle regulation may indicate the cellular foundation of both PURA Syndrome and related neuronal diseases.
In summary, I present a versatile and user-friendly computational tool for the analysis of CLIP data. Subsequently, I conduct a thorough computational analysis of CLIP and other high-throughput data in the context of the RNA-binding protein PURA, which offers valuable insights into the cellular functions of PURA. These insights advance our understanding of the impact of PURA loss in PURA Syndrome and other disease contexts.
Exploring strategies to improve the reverse beta-oxidation pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2024)
Microbes are the most diverse living organisms on Earth, with various metabolic adaptations that allow them to live in different conditions and produce compounds with different chemical complexity. Microbial biotechnology exploits the metabolic diversity of microorganisms to manufacture products for different industries. Today, the chemical industry is a significant energy consumer and carbon dioxide emitter, with processes that harm natural ecosystems, like the extraction of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs). MCFAs are used as precursors for biofuels, volatile esters, surfactants, or polymers in materials with enhanced properties.
However, their current extraction process uses large, non-sustainable monocultures of coconut and palm trees. Therefore, the microbial production of MCFAs can help reduce the current environmental impact of obtaining these products and their derivatives.
In nature, fatty acids are mostly produced via fatty acid biosynthesis (FAB). However, the reverse β-oxidation (rBOX) is a more energy-efficient pathway compared to FAB. The rBOX pathway consists of four reactions, which result in the elongation of an acyl-CoA molecule by two carbon units from acetyl-CoA in each cycle. In this work we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an organism with a high tolerance towards toxic compounds, as the expression host of the rBOX pathway to produce MCFAs and medium-chain fatty alcohols (MCFOHs).
In the first part of this work, we expanded the length of the products from expressing the rBOX in the cytosol and increased the MCFAs titres. First, we deleted the major glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPD2). This resulted in a platform strain with significantly reduced glycerol fermentation and increased rBOX pathway activity, probably due to an increased availability of NADH. Then, we tested different combinations of rBOX enzymes to increase the length and titres of MCFA. Expressing the thiolase CnbktB and β-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase CnpaaH1 from Cupriavidus necator, Cacrt from Clostridium acetobutylicum and the trans-enoyl-CoA reductase Tdter (Treponema denticola) resulted in hexanoic acid as the main product.
Expressing Cncrt2 (C. necator) or YlECH (Y. lipolytica) as enoyl-CoA hydratases resulted in octanoic acid as the main product. Then, we integrated the octanoic (Cncrt2 or YlECH) and the hexanoic acid (Cacrt)-producing variants in the genome of the platform strain and we achieved titers of ≈75 mg/L (hexanoic acid) and ≈ 60 mg/L (octanoic acid) when growing these strains in a complex, highly buffered medium. These are the highest titers of octanoic and hexanoic acid obtained in S. cerevisiae with the rBOX. Additionally, we deleted TES1 and FAA2 to prevent competition for butyryl-CoA and degradation of the produced fatty acids, respectively.
However, these deletions did not improve MCFA titers. In addition, we tested two dual acyl-CoA reductase/alcohol dehydrogenases (ACR/ADH), CaadhE2 from C. acetobutylicum and the putative ACR/ADH EceutE from Escherichia coli, in an octanoyl-CoA-producing strain to produce MCFOH. As a result, we produced 1-hexanol and 1-octanol for the first time in S. cerevisiae with these two enzymes. Nonetheless, the titres were low (<10 mg/L and <2 mg/L, respectively), and four-carbon 1-butanol was the main product in both cases (>80 mg/L). This showed the preference of these two enzymes for butyryl-CoA.
In the second part of this work, we expressed the rBOX in the mitochondria of S. cerevisiae to benefit from the high levels of acetyl-CoA and the reducing environment in that organelle. First, in an adh-deficient strain, we mutated MTH1, a transcription factor regulating the expression of hexose transporters, and deleted GPD2. This resulted in a strain with a reduced Crabtree effect and, therefore, an increased carbon flux to the mitochondria. We partially validated the increased flux to the mitochondria by expressing the ethanol-acetyltransferase EAT1 from Kluyveromyces marxianus in this organelle. This resulted in a higher isoamyl acetate production in the MTH1-mutant strain. Isoamyl acetate is synthesised by Eat1 from acetyl-CoA and isoamyl alcohol, a product of the metabolism of amino acids in the mitochondria. Then, we targeted different butyryl-CoA-producing rBOX variants to the mitochondria, and we used the production of 1-butanol and butyric acid as a proof-of-concept. The strong expression of all the enzymes was toxic for the cell, and the highest butyric acid titres (≈ 50 mg/L) in the mitochondria from the rBOX were obtained from the weak expression of the pathway. The highest 1-butanol titers (≈ 5 mg/L) were obtained with the downregulation of the mitochondrial NADH-oxidase NDI1. However, this downregulation led to a non-desirable petite phenotype.
In summary, we produced hexanoic and octanoic acid for the first time in S. cerevisiae using the rBOX and achieved the highest reported titers of hexanoic and octanoic acid so far using this pathway in S. cerevisiae. In addition, we successfully compartmentalised the rBOX in the mitochondria. However, competing reactions, some of them essential for the viability of the cell, limit the use of this organelle for the rBOX.
Research on the human and animal microbiome has become increasingly important in recent years. It is now widely accepted the gut microbiome is of crucial importance to health, as it is involved in a large number of physiological processes. The term ‘microbiome’ refers to the all living microorganisms including their genes and metabolites in a defined environment, while the specific composition of microorganisms consisting of bacteria, archaea and protozoa is referred to as the ‘microbiota’ (Lane-Petter, 1962; Lederberg and McCray, 2001).
In recent years, research has focused on various of these communities in the soil (Fierer, 2017), water (Sunagawa et al., 2015), air (Leung et al., 2014) and especially in the human gut. However, this topic is also becoming increasingly relevant for the conservation of endangered species. In the face of global mass extinctions and the listing of over 42,000 animal species as ‘critically endangered’, conservation breeding programmes are more important than ever (Díaz et al., 2019; IUCN, 2022). The responsibility for these tasks lies with zoological institutions, which are dedicated to animal conservation and the continuous monitoring of animal welfare. Microbiome research offers a non-invasive method to support species conservation. By analysing faecal samples, microbial markers can be identified that provide important information about the health status and reproductive cycle of animals (Weingrill et al., 2004; Antwis et al., 2019). Zoological facilities also provide an ideal research environment for comparing individuals from different habitats. In addition, all necessary metadata such as age, sex, kinship or medical treatment are documented and can be used for the analysis.
This is the starting point for this thesis. In order to identify such microbial markers, it is necessary to understand the microbiome of a variety of animal species. The first aim is therefore to characterise the faecal microbiota of 31 mammalian species, focusing on herbivores and carnivores. It could be shown that they differ significantly in terms of both microbial diversity and microbiota composition. Herbivorous species express a very diverse microbial composition, consisting mainly of cellulose-degrading taxa of the families Fibrobacteraceae or Spirochaetaceae. In contrast, the microbiota of carnivorous species is less diverse and is dominated by protein-degrading Fusobacteriaceae and Clostridiaceae. In addition, this thesis proves that the microbiota of herbivorous species is highly consistent, whereas the microbiota of carnivorous species is highly variable. The results of this study provide important insights for the sampling scheme of future projects. Especially when analysing carnivorous species, single samples are not sufficient to capture the full variability of the microbiome.
These results lead to the question of whether this variability can be explained by daily fluctuations in the individual microbiome and whether this can be used to distinguish between species or individuals. Using individual longitudinal data and a combined approach of clustering algorithms and dynamic time warping, it is shown that such a distinction is possible at the species and individual level. This was confirmed for both a carnivorous (Panthera tigris) and a herbivorous (Connochaetes taurinus) species. These results confirm the influence of the host individual on the faecal microbiota, in addition to the often described influence of diet (Ley et al., 2008a; Kartzinel et al., 2019).
Based on the knowledge gained from these studies, a methodology has been developed that will enable the conservation of species in the field to be supported by microbiome research in the future. The focus here lays on the identification of host-specific metadata based on the faecal microbiota. The developed regression model is able to distinguish between carnivorous, herbivorous and omnivorous hosts with up to 99% accuracy. In addition, a more accurate phylogenetic classification of the family (Canidae, Felidae, Ursidae, Herpestidae) can be made for carnivorous hosts. For herbivorous hosts, the model can predict the respective digestive system with up to 100% accuracy, distinguishing between ruminants, hindgut fermenters and a simple digestive system. The acquisition of host-specific metadata from an unknown faecal sample is an important step towards establishing microbiome research in species conservation. Field studies in particular will benefit from such new methods. Usually, costly microsatellite analysis and high-quality host DNA are required to obtain host-specific information from faecal samples. The newly developed method offers a less costly and labour-intensive alternative to conventional techniques and opens up a more accessible field for microbiome research in the field.
Neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders (NPDs) like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and schizophrenia, affect millions of people worldwide. Despite recent progress in NPD research, much remains to be discovered about their underpinnings, therapeutic targets, effects of biological sex and age. Risk factors influencing brain development and signalling include prenatal inflammation and genetic variation. This dissertation aimed to build upon these findings by combining behavioural, molecular, and neuromorphological investigations in mouse models of such risk factors, i.e. maternal immune activation (MIA), neuron-specific overexpression (OE) of the cytoplasmatic isoforms of the RNA-binding protein RBFOX1, and neuronal deletion of the small Ras GTPase DIRAS2.
Maternal infections during pregnancy pose an increased risk for NPDs in the offspring. While viral-like MIA has been previously established elsewhere, this study was the first in our institution to implement the model. I validated NPD-relevant deficits in anxiety- and depression-like behaviours, as well as dose- and sex-specific social deficits in mouse offspring following MIA in early gestation. Proteomic analyses in embryonic and adult hippocampal (HPC) synaptoneurosomes highlighted novel and known targets affected by MIA. Analysis of the embryonic dataset implicated neurodevelopmental disruptions of the lipid, polysaccharide, and glycoprotein metabolism, important for proper membrane function, signalling, and myelination, for NPD-pertinent sequelae. In adulthood, the observed changes encompassed transmembrane trafficking and intracellular signalling, apoptosis, and cytoskeletal organisation pathways. Importantly, 50 proteins altered by MIA in embryonic and adult HPC were enriched in the NPD-relevant synaptic vesicle cycle. A persistently upregulated protein cluster formed a functional network involved in presynaptic signalling and proteins downregulated in embryos but upregulated in adults by MIA were correlated with observed social deficits. 49/50 genes encoding these proteins were significantly associated with NPD- and comorbidity-relevant traits in human phenome-wise association study data for psychiatric phenotypes. These findings highlight NPD-relevant targets for future study and early intervention in at-risk individuals. MIA-evoked changes in the neuroarchitecture of the NPD-relevant HPC and prefrontal cortex (PFC) of male and female mice highlighted sex- and region-specific alterations in dendritic and spine morphology, possibly underlining behavioural phenotypes.
To further investigate genetic risk factors of NPDs, I performed a study based on the implications of RBFOX1’s pleiotropic role in neuropsychiatric disorders and previous preclinical findings. Cytoplasmatic OE of RBFOX1, which affects the stability and translation of thousands of targets, was used to disseminate its role in morphology and behaviour. RBFOX1 OE affected dendritic length and branching in the male PFC and led to spine alterations in both PFC and HPC. Due to previously observed ASD-like endophenotypes in our Rbfox1 KO mice and the importance of gene × environment effects on NPD susceptibility, I probed the interaction of cytoplasmatic OE and a low-dose MIA on offspring. Both RBFOX1 OE alone and with MIA led to increased offspring loss during the perinatal period. Preliminary data suggested that RBFOX1 OE × MIA might increase anxiety- and anhedonia-like behaviours. Morphological changes in the adult male OE HPC and PFC suggested increased spine density and reduced dendritic complexity. A small post-mortem study in human dorsolateral PFC of older adults did not reveal significant effects of a common risk variant on RBFOX1 abundance.
To expand upon NPD genetic risks, I evaluated the effects of a homo- (KO) or heterozygous (HET) Diras2 deletion in a novel, neuron-specific mouse model. DIRAS2’s function is largely unknown, but it has been associated with ADHD in humans and neurodevelopment in vitro. In adult mice, there were subtle sex-specific effects on behaviour, i.e. more pronounced NPD-relevant deficits in males, in keeping with human data. KO mice had subtly improved cognitive performance, while HET mice exhibited behaviours in line with core ADHD symptoms, e.g. earning difficulties (females), response inhibition deficits and hyperactivity (males), suggesting Diras2 dose-sensitivity and sex-specificity. The morphological findings revealed multiple aberrations in dendritic and spine morphology in the adult PFC, HPC, and amygdala of HET males. KOs changes in spine and dendritic morphology were exclusively in the PFC and largely opposite to those in HETs and NPD-like phenotypes. Region- and genotype-specific expression changes in Diras2 and Diras1 were observed in six relevant brain regions of adult HET and KO females, also revealing differences in the survival and morphology regulator mTOR, which might underlie observed differences.
In conclusion, the effects of MIA and partial Diras2 knockdown resembled each other in core, NPD-associated behavioural and morphological phenotypes, while cytoplasmatic RBFOX1 OE and full Diras2 KO differed from those. My findings suggest complex dose- and sex-dependent relationships between these prenatal and genetic interventions, whose NPD-relevant influences might converge onto neurodevelopmental molecular pathways. An assessment of such putative overlap, based on available data from the MIA proteomic analyses of embryonic and adult HPC, suggested the three models might be linked via downstream targets, interactions, and upstream regulators. Future studies should disseminate both distinct and shared aspects of MIA, RBFOX1, and DIRAS2 relevant to NPDs and build upon these findings.
How the brain evolved remains a mystery. The goal of this thesis is to understand the fundamental processes that are behind the evolutionary history of the brain. Amniotes appeared 320 million years ago with the transition from water to land. This early group bifurcated into sauropsids (reptiles and birds) and synapsids (mammals). Amniote brains evolved separately and display obvious structural and functional differences. Although those differences reflect brain diversification, all amniote brains share a common ancestor and their brains show multiple derived similarities: equivalent structures, networks, circuits and cell types have been preserved during millions of years. Finding these differences and similarities will help us understand brain historical evolution and function. Studying brain evolution can be approached from various levels, including brain structure, circuits, cell types, and genes. We propose a focus on cell types for a more comprehensive understanding of brain evolution. Neurons are the basic building blocks and the most diverse cell types in the brain. Their evolution reflects changes in the developmental processes that produce them, which in turn may shape the neural circuits they belong to. However, there is currently a lack of a unified criteria for studying the homology of connectivity and development between neurons. A neuron’s transcriptome is a molecular representation of its identity, connectivity, and developmental/evolutionary history. Hence the comparison of neuronal transcriptomes within and across species is a new and transformative development in the study of brain evolution. As an alternative, comparing neuronal transcriptomes across different species can provide insights into the evolution of the brain. We propose that comparing transcriptomes can be a way to fill this gap and unify these criteria. In previous studies, published in Science (Tosches et al., 2018) and Nature (Norimoto et al., 2020), we leveraged scRNAseq in reptiles to re-evaluate the origins and evolution of the mammalian cerebral cortex and claustrum. Motivated by the success of this approach, in this thesis we have now expanded single-cell profiling to the entire brain of a lizard species, the Australian dragon Pogona vitticeps, with a special focus in thalamus and prethalamus of. This approach allowed us to study the evolution of neuron types in amniotes. Therefore, we aimed to build a multilevel atlas of the lizard brain based on histology and transcriptomic and compare it to an equal mouse dataset (Zeisel et al., 2018).
Our atlas reveals a general structure that is consistent with that for other amniote brains, allowing us to make a direct comparison between lizard and mouse, despite their evolutionary divergence 320 million years ago. Through our analysis of the transcriptomes present in various neuron types, we have uncovered a core of conserved classes and discovered a fascinating dichotomy of new and conserved neuron types throughout the brain. This research challenges the traditional notion that certain brain regions are more conserved than others.
Our research also has uncovered the evolutionary history of the lizard thalamus and prethalamus by comparing them to homologous brain regions of the mouse. This pioneering research sheds new light on our understanding of the evolutionary history of the lizard brain. We propose a new classification of the lizard thalamic nuclei based on
transcriptomics. Our research revealed that the thalamic neuron types in lizards can be grouped into two large, conserved categories from the medial to lateral thalamus. These categories are encoded by a common set of effector genes, linking theories based on connectivity and molecular studies of these areas. In our data we have seen that there is a conservation of the medial-lateral transcriptomic axis in mouse and lizard, this conservation was most likely already present in the common ancestor. Although there is a shared medial-lateral axis, a deeper study of the thalamic cell types has allowed us to see the existence of a partial diversification of the thalamic population, specifically in the sensory-related lateral thalamus; in opposition, the medial thalamic nuclei neuron-types have been preserved.
On the other hand, the comparison with the mammalian prethalamus allowed us to confirm that the lizard ventromedial thalamic neuron types are homologous to mouse reticular thalamic neuron types (Díaz et al., 1994), even if they do not express the classical Reticular thalamic nucleus (RTn) marker PV/pvalb. We also discovered that there has been a simplification in the mammalian prethalamic neuron types in favor of an increase in the number of Interneurons (IN) types within their thalamus. We suggest that the loss of GABAergic neuronal types in the mammalian prethalamus is linked to the need for a more efficient control of the thalamo-pallial communication in mammals, while in lizards, where thalamo-pallial communication is probably simpler, the diversity prethalamus presents a higher diversity.
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is considered the cognitive center of the mammalian brain. It is involved in a variety of cognitive functions such as decision making, working memory, goal-directed behavior, processing of emotions, flexible action selection, attention, and others (Fuster, 2015). In rodents, these functions are associated with the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Experiments in mice and rats have shown that neurons in the mPFC are necessary for successful performance of many cognitive tasks. Moreover, measurements of neural activity in the mPFC show excitation or inhibition in different cells in relation to specific aspects of the tasks to be solved. To date, however, it is largely unknown whether prefrontal neurons are stably activated during the same behaviors within a task and whether similar aspects are represented by the same neurons in different tasks. In addition, it is unclear how specifically neurons are activated, for example, whether cells that are activated in response to reward are activated in a different task without reward in a different situation or remain inactive. To address these questions, we recorded the same neurons in the mPFC of mice over the course of several weeks while the animals performed various behaviors.
To do this, we expressed GCaMP6 in pyramidal neurons in the mPFC of mice. A small lens was implanted in the same location and a miniature microscope ("miniscope") was used to record neural activity. Later the extracted neurons got aligned based on their shape and position across multiple days and sessions. The mice performed five different behavioral tests while neural activity was measured: A spatial working memory test in a T-maze, exploration of the elevated plus maze (EPM), a novel object recognition (NO) test including free open field (OF) exploration, a social interaction (SI) test and discriminatory auditory fear conditioning (FC). Each task was repeated at least twice to check for stable task encoding across sessions. Behavioral performance and neural correlates to specific task events were similar to earlier studies across all tasks. We utilized generalized linear models (GLM) to determine which behavioral variables most strongly influence neural activity in the mPFC. The position of the mouse in the environment was found to explain most of the variance in neural activity, together with movement speed they were the strongest predictors of neural activity across all tasks. Reward time points in the working memory test, the conditioned stimulus after fear conditioning, or head direction in general were also strongly encoded in the mPFC.
Many of the recorded neurons showed a stable spatial activity profile across multiple sessions of the same task. Similarly, cells that coded for position in one task tended to code for position in other tasks. Not only did the same cells code for position across multiple tasks, but cells also coded for movement speed and head direction. This indicates that at least these general behavioral variables are each represented by the same neurons in the mPFC. Interestingly, the stability of position or speed coding did not depend on the time between two sessions, but only on whether it was within the same or across different tasks. Within the same task, stability was slightly higher than across different tasks.
To find out whether task-specific behavioral aspects were also stably encoded in the mPFC, difference scores as the difference in neural activity between two task aspects like left- and right-choice trials or exposed and enclosed locations were calculated. Many cells encoded these aspects stably across different sessions of each task. Both the left-right differences in the different phases of the working memory test, the open-closed-arm differences in the elevated plus maze, the different activity between center and corners in the open field, the social target-object differences in the social interaction test, and the differences between the two tones during fear conditioning were all stably encoded across the population of mPFC cells. Only the distinction between the novel and the familiar object during object recognition was not stably encoded, but also the preference for the novel object was not present in the second session of novel object exploration.
There was also an overlap in coding for different aspects within a task across multiple sessions. For example, cells stably encoded left-right differences in the T-maze between different sessions as a function of walking direction across different phases of working memory, an aspect that we could already show within one session (Vogel, Hahn et al., 2022). During fear conditioning, the same cells showed a discrimination between CS+ and CS- that also responded to the start of CS+.
Consistency in the neurons activity across different tasks was also found, but only between tasks with similar demands, the elevated plus-maze and free exploration of the open field. Cells that were more active in the open arms also showed more activity in the center of the open field and vice versa. This could be an indicator that the cells were coding for anxiety or exposure across those tasks, indicating that neurons in the mPFC also stably encode general task aspects independent of the specific environment. However, it remains unclear what exactly these neurons encode; in the case of a general fear signal, one would also expect activation during fear conditioning which could not be found.
Overall, we found that neurons in the mPFC of mice encoded multiple general behavioral variables across multiple tasks and task-specific variables were encoded stably within each of the tested tasks. However, we found little task-specific variables that were systematically encoded by the same neurons with the exception being the elevated plus-maze and open field exploration, two tasks with similar features.
Precise regulation of gene expression networks is required to develop and maintain a healthy organism before and after birth and throughout adulthood. Such networks are mostly comprised of regulatory proteins, but meanwhile many long non-coding transcripts (lncRNAs) are shown to participate in these regulatory processes. The functions and mechanisms of these lncRNAs vary greatly, however they are often associated with transcriptional regulation. Three lncRNAs, namely Sweetheart RNA (Swhtr), Fetal-lethal noncoding developmental regulatory RNA / Foxf1 adjacent non-Coding developmental regulatory RNA (Fendrr) and lncFsd2, were studied in this work to demonstrate the variety of cellular and biological processes that require lncRNA-mediated fine-tuning, in regard to the cardiopulmonary system.
Swhtr was found to be expressed exclusively in cardiomyocytes and became critical for regeneration after myocardial injury. Mice lacking Swhtr did not show issues under normal conditions, but failed to undergo compensatory hypertrophic remodeling after injury, leading to increased mortality. This effect was rescued by re-expressing Swhtr, demonstrating importance of the RNA. Genes dependent on Swhtr during cardiac stress were found to likely be regulated by NKX2-5 through physical interaction with Swhtr. Fendrr was found to be expressed in lung and interacted with target promoters through its RNA:dsDNA binding domain, the FendrrBox, which was partially required for Fendrr function. Fendrr, together with activated WNT signaling, regulated fibrosis related target genes via the FendrrBox in fibroblasts. LncFsd2, an ubiquitously expressed lncRNA, showed possible interaction with the striated muscle specific Fsd2, but its exact function and regulatory role remain unclear in muscle physiology. Immunoprecipitation and subcellular fractionation experiments suggest that lncFsd2 might be involved in nuclear retention of Fsd2 mRNA, thus fine-tuning FSD2 protein expression. These investigations have shed light on the roles of these lncRNAs in stress responses, fibrosis-related gene regulation, and localization processes, advancing our understanding of cardiovascular and pulmonary maintenance, reaction to injury, and diseases. The diverse and intricate roles of these three lncRNAs highlight how they influence various cellular processes and disease states, offering avenues for exploring lncRNA functions in different biological contexts.