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- Title
Huntington's disease cellular phenotypes are rescued non-cell autonomously by healthy cells in mosaic telencephalic organoids.
- Authors
Galimberti, Maura; Nucera, Maria R.; Bocchi, Vittoria D.; Conforti, Paola; Vezzoli, Elena; Cereda, Matteo; Maffezzini, Camilla; Iennaco, Raffaele; Scolz, Andrea; Falqui, Andrea; Cordiglieri, Chiara; Cremona, Martina; Espuny-Camacho, Ira; Faedo, Andrea; Felsenfeld, Dan P.; Vogt, Thomas F.; Ranzani, Valeria; Zuccato, Chiara; Besusso, Dario; Cattaneo, Elena
- Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) causes selective degeneration of striatal and cortical neurons, resulting in cell mosaicism of coexisting still functional and dysfunctional cells. The impact of non-cell autonomous mechanisms between these cellular states is poorly understood. Here we generated telencephalic organoids with healthy or HD cells, grown separately or as mosaics of the two genotypes. Single-cell RNA sequencing revealed neurodevelopmental abnormalities in the ventral fate acquisition of HD organoids, confirmed by cytoarchitectural and transcriptional defects leading to fewer GABAergic neurons, while dorsal populations showed milder phenotypes mainly in maturation trajectory. Healthy cells in mosaic organoids restored HD cell identity, trajectories, synaptic density, and communication pathways upon cell-cell contact, while showing no significant alterations when grown with HD cells. These findings highlight cell-type-specific alterations in HD and beneficial non-cell autonomous effects of healthy cells, emphasizing the therapeutic potential of modulating cell-cell communication in disease progression and treatment. Mosaic organoids where pathological and healthy cells are grown together, reveal the rescue of phenotypes in pathological cells due to communication with healthy cells without harming them, as demonstrated by single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
- Subjects
HUNTINGTON disease; MOSAICISM; GABAERGIC neurons; CELL communication; RNA sequencing
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-50877-x