Journal article
Loss of p53 Causes Stochastic Aberrant X-Chromosome Inactivation and Female-Specific Neural Tube Defects
ARD Delbridge, AJ Kueh, F Ke, NM Zamudio, F El-Saafin, N Jansz, GY Wang, M Iminitoff, T Beck, S Haupt, Y Hu, RE May, L Whitehead, L Tai, W Chiang, MJ Herold, Y Haupt, GK Smyth, T Thomas, ME Blewitt Show all
Cell reports | Elsevier | Published : 2019
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Abstract
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are common birth defects in humans and show an unexplained female bias. Female mice lacking the tumor suppressor p53 display NTDs with incomplete penetrance. We found that the combined loss of pro-apoptotic BIM and p53 caused 100% penetrant, female-exclusive NTDs, which allowed us to investigate the female-specific functions of p53. We report that female p53−/− embryonic neural tube samples show fewer cells with inactive X chromosome markers Xist and H3K27me3 and a concomitant increase in biallelic expression of the X-linked genes, Huwe1 and Usp9x. Decreased Xist and increased X-linked gene expression was confirmed by RNA sequencing. Moreover, we found that p53 dir..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Drs. C. Scott, T. Jacks, A. Villunger, T. Kaufmann, D. C. S. Huang, S.J. Korsmeyer, C. Thompson, J.M. Adams, and P. Bouillet for gifts of mice; Moshe Oren, Antonio Constanzo, and Giovanni Blandino for provision of reagents; K. Humphries, K. Walker, E. Lanera, J. Mansheim, G. Siciliano, S. O'Connor, K. Trueman, G. Dabrowski, and K. Vella for expert animal care; and B. Helbert, H. Ierino, K. Mackwell, and C. Young for mouse genotyping. C. Scott was responsible for the initial mating of the Bim<SUP>-/-</SUP> and p53<SUP>-/-</SUP> strains and generously bequeathed this colony. This work was supported by grants and fellowships from the Cancer Council of Victoria (A.R.D.D., Sydney Parker Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship), the National Health and Medical Research Council (program grant no. 1016701; SPRF Fellowship 1020363 to A. S.; SRF Fellowships 575512 and 1081421 to A.K.V.; PRF Fellowship 1058892 and program grant 1054618 to G. K. S.; project grants 1051078 and 1084504), the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (SCOR grant no. 7001-13), the estate of Anthony (Toni) Redstone OAM, Australian Postgraduate Awards (A.R.D.D., N.J., and F.E.-S.), The Bellberry-Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship (M.E.B.) and Cancer Therapeutics CRC Top-up Scholarship (A.R.D.D.), the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation (S. H.) and NHMRC 1123057, and National Breast Cancer Foundation IN-16-042 (Y. Haupt). This work was made possible by operational infrastructure grants through the Australian Government IRISS and the Victorian State Government OIS.