Shank3 Modulates Sleep and Expression of Circadian Transcription Factors

  1. Ashley Ingiosi
  2. Hannah Schoch
  3. Taylor P Wintler
  4. Kristan G Singletary
  5. Dario Righelli
  6. Leandro Roser
  7. Elizabeth Medina
  8. Davide Risso
  9. Marcos G Frank  Is a corresponding author
  10. Lucia Peixoto  Is a corresponding author
  1. Washington State University, United States
  2. National Research Council (CNR), Italy
  3. University of Padova, Italy

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder in the United States and often co-presents with sleep problems. Sleep problems in ASD predict the severity of ASD core diagnostic symptoms and have a considerable impact on the quality of life of caregivers. Little is known, however, about the underlying molecular mechanisms of sleep problems in ASD. We investigated the role of Shank3, a high confidence ASD gene candidate, in sleep architecture and regulation. We show that mice lacking exon 21 of Shank3 have problems falling asleep even when sleepy. Using RNA-seq we show that sleep deprivation increases the differences in prefrontal cortex gene expression between mutants and wild types, downregulating circadian transcription factors Per3, Bhlhe41, Hlf, Tef, and Nr1d1. Shank3 mutants also have trouble regulating wheel-running activity in constant darkness. Overall, our study shows that Shank3 is an important modulator of sleep and clock gene expression.

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Sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under accession code GSE113754. Source data files have been provided for Figures 1-4, Tables 1 and 2 and Supplementary Files 1 and 2. The R code used in this article is available on GitHub (github.com/drighelli/peixoto). The R code used for the statistical analysis of RNA-seq and circadian wheel running data is also available in Source Code file 1.

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  1. Ashley Ingiosi

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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  2. Hannah Schoch

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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  3. Taylor P Wintler

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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  4. Kristan G Singletary

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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  5. Dario Righelli

    Instituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, National Research Council (CNR), Napoli, Italy
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  6. Leandro Roser

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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  7. Elizabeth Medina

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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  8. Davide Risso

    Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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  9. Marcos G Frank

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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    marcos.frank@wsu.edu
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  10. Lucia Peixoto

    Department of Biomedical Science, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
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    lucia.peixoto@wsu.edu
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Funding

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (K01NS104172)

  • Lucia Peixoto

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols of Washington State University. Protocol numbers: 04705-001 and 04704-001IACUC 6155-Peixoto BreedingIACUC 4705-Peixoto experimentalIACUC 4581-Frank experimental

Human subjects: PMSIR patient data was obtained de-identified under IRB exemption 15005-Peixoto

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© 2019, Ingiosi et al.

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  1. Ashley Ingiosi
  2. Hannah Schoch
  3. Taylor P Wintler
  4. Kristan G Singletary
  5. Dario Righelli
  6. Leandro Roser
  7. Elizabeth Medina
  8. Davide Risso
  9. Marcos G Frank
  10. Lucia Peixoto
(2019)
Shank3 Modulates Sleep and Expression of Circadian Transcription Factors
eLife 8:e42819.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42819

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