Depletion of Polypyrimidine tract binding protein 1 (ptbp1) activates Müller glia-derived proliferation during zebrafish retina regeneration via modulation of the senescence secretome
Gregory J. Konar , Audrey L. Lingan , Kyle T. Vallone, Tu D. Nguyen, Zachary R. Flickinger, James G. Patton
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Abstract
Polypyrimidine Tract Binding protein 1 (PTB) is an alternative splicing factor linked to neuronal induction and maturation. Previously, knockdown experiments supported a model in which PTB can function as a potent reprogramming factor, able to elicit direct glia-to-neuron conversion in vivo, in both the brain and retina. However, later lineage tracing and genetic knockouts of PTB did not support direct neuronal reprogramming. Nevertheless, consistent with the PTB depletion experiments, we show that antisense knockdown of PTB (ptbp1a) in the zebrafish retina can activate Müller glia-derived proliferation and that depletion of PTB can further enhance proliferation when combined with acute NMDA damage. The effects of PTB are consistent with a role in controlling key senescence and pro-inflammatory genes that are part of the senescence secretome that initiates retina regeneration.
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The primary goal of Experimental Eye Research is to publish original research papers on all aspects of experimental biology of the eye and ocular tissues that seek to define the mechanisms of normal function and/or disease. Studies of ocular tissues that encompass the disciplines of cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, molecular biology, physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology or microbiology are most welcomed. Manuscripts that are purely clinical or in a surgical area of ophthalmology are not appropriate for submission to Experimental Eye Research and if received will be returned without review.