Role of Nesprin-2 and RanBP2 in BICD2-associated brain developmental disorders

Bicaudal D2 (BICD2) is responsible for recruiting cytoplasmic dynein to diverse forms of subcellular cargo for their intracellular transport. Mutations in the human BICD2 gene have been found to cause an autosomal dominant form of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA-LED2), and brain developmental defects. Whether and how the latter mutations are related to roles we and others have identified for BICD2 in brain development remains little understood. BICD2 interacts with the nucleoporin RanBP2 to recruit dynein to the nuclear envelope (NE) of Radial Glial Progenitor cells (RGPs) to mediate their well-known but mysterious cell-cycle-regulated interkinetic nuclear migration (INM) behavior, and their subsequent differentiation to form cortical neurons. We more recently found that BICD2 also mediates NE dynein recruitment in migrating post-mitotic neurons, though via a different interactor, Nesprin-2. Here, we report that Nesprin-2 and RanBP2 compete for BICD2-binding in vitro. To test the physiological implications of this behavior, we examined the effects of known BICD2 mutations using in vitro biochemical and in vivo electroporation-mediated brain developmental assays. We find a clear relationship between the ability of BICD2 to bind RanBP2 vs. Nesprin-2 in controlling of nuclear migration and neuronal migration behavior. We propose that mutually exclusive RanBP2-BICD2 vs. Nesprin-2-BICD2 interactions at the NE play successive, critical roles in INM behavior in RGPs and in post-mitotic neuronal migration and errors in these processes contribute to specific human brain malformations.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  PLoS Genetics

• Publication date

  2023-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010642PMID 36930595PMCID 10022797
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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