MLMathilde Louçã

Mathilde Louçã

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Latest Publications

  • Open Access

    Allele-selective and pan-allelic huntingtin lowering differentially affect neuronal homeostasis and BDNF transport

    by Romane A. Lahaye, Aude Lemesle, Laurent Cotter, Donya El Akrouti, Virginie Redeker, Mathilde Louçã, Hélène Jean-Jacques, Yuanjing Liu, Abbie Maguire, Naoki Iwamoto, et al.

  • Open Access

    Somatic CRISPR editing of Msh3 mitigates Huntington’s disease pathology in mice

    by Esaria Oliver, Marina Kovalenko, Mathilde Louçã, Andrew Jiang, Jordan Westerdahl, Kevin Correia, Benjamin Jones, Faaiza Saif, Nicole Romano, Ashna Sidhu, et al.

    Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in Huntingtin ( HTT ) exon 1. Further progressive CAG repeat expansion occurs in somatic cells, particularly in neurons, and drives the timing of clinical onset. Therefore, therapeutic strategies to slow somatic expansion are predicted to be disease-modifying. Somatic CAG expansion is driven by mismatch repair protein MSH3, a leading therapeutic target supported by human genetic data. To gain insight into the impact of targeting MSH3 at different stages of the disease process we used somatic CRISPR-Cas9 editing to knock out Msh3 in Htt Q111 mice at ages of 6, 16, 24 weeks exhibiting progressively increasing somatic expansion. Intervention at all three ages slowed striatal CAG expansion, reduced nuclear huntingtin pathology and suppressed transcriptional dysregulation, with earlier intervention having greater impact. Msh3 knockout also suppressed the production of the exon 1 Htt1a transcript. The results of our study provide important preclinical information relevant to an MSH3 therapeutic in humans that would be expected to impact a subset of cells in the brain, provide insight into the influence of timing of intervention on therapeutic effectiveness and deepen our understanding of how targeting MSH3 could alter the trajectory of HD.


  • Functional impacts of Huntingtin lowering on the synaptic maturation and activity of neuronal networks derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

    by Mathilde Louçã

    Impacts fonctionnels de la réduction de la Huntingtine sur la maturation et l'activité synaptique de réseaux neuronaux dérivés à partir de cellules souches humaines induites à la pluripotence: La maladie de Huntington (MH) est une maladie neurodégénérative causée par la mutation de la Huntingtine (HTT). La réduction de l'expression de la HTT mutante est une piste thérapeutique évidente en cours d’exploration chez les patients. Le ciblage de la HTT mutante s’accompagne cependant le plus souvent d’une réduction concomitante de la HTT non mutée. Les conséquences de la perte de cette protéine sur la santé des neurones restent mal connues.Mon travail de thèse traite cette question en utilisant des modèles in vitro de réseaux neuronaux humains différenciés à partir de cellules souches induites à la pluripotence. Mes travaux démontrent que la perte de HTT induit des anomalies de développement et d’homéostasie de ces réseaux. Mes résultats suggèrent que les thérapies ciblant indifféremment la HTT mutante et non mutante pourraient compromettre la santé des circuits neuronaux ciblés.