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Behavioural phenotypes of Dicer knockout in the mouse SCN

Du, Ngoc-Hien  
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Kompotis, Konstantinos
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Sato, Miho
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November 17, 2024
European Journal of Neuroscience

The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the master clock that directly dictates behavioural rhythms to anticipate the earth's light/dark cycles. Although post-transcriptional regulators called microRNAs have been implicated in physiological SCN function, how the absence of the entire mature miRNome impacts SCN output has not yet been explored. To study the behavioural consequences of miRNA depletion in the SCN, we first generated a mouse model in which Dicer is inactivated in the SCN by crossing Syt10(Cre) mice with Dicer(flox) mice to study behavioural consequences of miRNA depletion in the SCN. Loss of all mature miRNAs in the SCN shortened the circadian period length by similar to 37 minutes at the tissue level and by similar to 45 minutes at the locomotor activity level. Moreover, knockout animals exhibited a reduction in the precision of the circadian rhythm with more variable activity onsets under both LD 12:12 and DD conditions. We also observed that knockouts with higher onset variations were inclined to develop ultradian rhythms under constant light. In a second mouse model, recombination of Dicer(flox) via Cre delivery specifically in the SCN resulted in loss of behavioural rhythms in some animals depending on the injection efficiency. Together, our observations highlight the importance of microRNAs for a physiological SCN function and their pivotal role in robust circadian oscillations.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/ejn.16605
Web of Science ID

WOS:001358044500001

PubMed ID

39551620

Author(s)
Du, Ngoc-Hien  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Kompotis, Konstantinos

University of Zurich

Sato, Miho

University of Zurich

Pedron, Erica

University of Zurich

Androvic, Sabrina

University of Zurich

Brown, Steven

University of Zurich

Date Issued

2024-11-17

Publisher

WILEY

Published in
European Journal of Neuroscience
Volume

60

Issue

11

Start page

6634

End page

6651

Subjects

circadian rhythms

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Dicer knockout

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locomotor activity

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miRNAs

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period length

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SCN

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LBMM  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Universitat Zurich

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January 28, 2025
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