Ursula Heins-Marroquin, Randolph R Singh, Simon Perathoner, Floriane Gavotto, Carla Merino Ruiz, Myrto Patraskaki, Gemma Gomez-Giro, Felix Kleine Borgmann, Melanie Meyer, Anaïs Carpentier, Marc O Warmoes, Christian Jäger, Michel Mittelbronn, Jens C Schwamborn, Maria Lorena Cordero-Maldonado, Alexander D Crawford, Emma L Schymanski, Carole L Linster
Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (or Batten disease) is an autosomal recessive, rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects mainly children above the age of 5 yr and is most commonly caused by mutations in the highly conserved CLN3 gene. Here, we generated cln3 morphants and stable mutant lines in zebrafish. Although neither morphant nor mutant cln3 larvae showed any obvious developmental or morphological defects, behavioral phenotyping of the mutant larvae revealed hyposensitivity to abrupt light changes and hypersensitivity to pro-convulsive drugs...
March 2024: Life Science Alliance