RNA Fusion in human retinal development
- Capital Medical University, China
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, China
Abstract
Chimeric RNAs have been found in both cancerous and healthy human cells. They have regulatory effects on human stem/progenitor cell differentiation, stemness maintenance and central nervous system (CNS) development. However, whether they are present in human retinal cells and their physiological functions in the retinal development remain unknown. Based on the human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived retinal organoids (ROs) spanning from day 0 to day 120, we present the expression atlas of chimeric RNAs throughout the developing ROs. We confirmed the existence of some common chimeric RNAs and also discovered many novel chimeric RNAs during retinal development. We focused on CTNNBIP1-CLSTN1 (CTCL) whose downregulation caused precocious neuronal differentiation and a marked reduction of neural progenitors in human cerebral organoids. CTCL is universally present in human retinas, retinal organoids and cell lines; however, its loss-of-function biased the progenitor cells toward retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell fate at the expense of retinal cells. Together, this work provides a landscape of chimeric RNAs and reveals evidence for their critical role in human retinal development.
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Sequencing data have been deposited in GSA under accession codes PRJCA020237.All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting file; Source Data files have been provided for Figures 4C and 5AB.
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Human AMDNCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, GSE155154.
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (82125007)
- Zi-Bing Jin
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Human subjects: One human retinal sample was included in this study, which was derived from a patient's donation. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Tongren Hospital (NO.TRECKY2021-089) and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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© 2024, Wang et al.
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RNA Fusion in human retinal development
eLife 13:e92523.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.92523
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