SMPD4 Deficiency Disrupts Cortical Development in Gyrencephalic Model
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Discovery of the day · Neurology
SMPD4 deficiency disrupts indirect neurogenesis and neuronal migration in gyrencephalic cortex
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Medicine · Neurology
Discovery of the day
Researchers established the first gyrencephalic ferret model of SMPD4 deficiency, recapitulating human cortical malformations including microcephaly, simplified gyral patterns, and disrupted neurogenesis — a critical advance over Smpd4 knockout mice, which show minimal cortical phenotypes. SMPD4 knockout in ferrets via in utero electroporation with CRISPR-Cas9 resulted in profoundly reduced basal intermediate progenitors, impaired nuclear envelope integrity, aberrant mitotic spindle orientation, and severe neuronal migration defects, as confirmed by single-cell RNA sequencing of over 20,000 cells. For your focus on neurodegenerative disease biomarkers, this gyrencephalic model provides a powerful translational platform to investigate how SMPD4-related disruption of intermediate progenitor biology and neuronal migration may inform mechanistic pathways relevant to cortical malformations and identify candidate molecular targets for diagnostic or therapeutic development.
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