@article {315328, title = {Novel transcriptional networks regulated by CLOCK in human neurons}, journal = {Genes and Development}, year = {2017}, month = {2017/12/01}, abstract = {

The molecular mechanisms underlying human brain evolution are not fully understood; however, previous work suggested that expression of the transcription factor\ CLOCK\ in the human cortex might be relevant to human cognition and disease. In this study, we investigated this novel transcriptional role for CLOCK in human neurons by performing chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing for endogenous CLOCK in adult neocortices and RNA sequencing following CLOCK knockdown in differentiated human neurons in vitro. These data suggested that CLOCK regulates the expression of genes involved in neuronal migration, and a functional assay showed that CLOCK knockdown increased neuronal migratory distance. Furthermore, dysregulation of CLOCK disrupts coexpressed networks of genes implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders, and the expression of these networks is driven by hub genes with human-specific patterns of expression. These data support a role for CLOCK-regulated transcriptional cascades involved in human brain evolution and function.

}, url = {http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/2017/12/01/gad.305813.117.short?rss=1}, author = {Fontenot, Miles R. and Berto, Stefano and Liu, Yuxiang and Werthmann, Gordon and Douglas, Connor and Usui, Noriyoshi and Gleason, Kelly and Tamminga, Carol A. and Takahashi, Joseph S. and Konopka, Genevieve} }