Inhibition of histone deacetylation rescues phenotype in a mouse model of Birk-Barel intellectual disability syndrome

oleh: Alexis Cooper, Tamer Butto, Niklas Hammer, Somanath Jagannath, Desiree Lucia Fend-Guella, Junaid Akhtar, Konstantin Radyushkin, Florian Lesage, Jennifer Winter, Susanne Strand, Jochen Roeper, Ulrich Zechner, Susann Schweiger

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-01-01

Deskripsi

Birk-Barel intellectual disability is an imprinting syndrome due to maternally-only transmitted mutations of KCNK9/TASK3. Here authors are using a heterozygous deletion of the active maternal Kcnk9 allele to model the disease and show phenotypic rescue by HDAC inhibition.