TY - INPR PB - The Company of Biologists JF - Disease Models and Mechanisms TI - Loss of slc39a14 causes simultaneous manganese hypersensitivity and deficiency in zebrafish N1 - © 2022. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. ID - discovery10148179 UR - https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.044594 Y1 - 2022/05/06/ AV - public SN - 1754-8403 A1 - Tuschl, Karin A1 - White, Richard J A1 - Trivedi, Chintan A1 - Valdivia, Leonardo E A1 - Niklaus, Stephanie A1 - Bianco, Isaac H A1 - Dadswell, Chris A1 - González-Méndez, Ramón A1 - Sealy, Ian M A1 - Neuhauss, Stephan CF A1 - Houart, Corinne A1 - Rihel, Jason A1 - Wilson, Stephen W A1 - Busch-Nentwich, Elisabeth M KW - Calcium KW - Manganese KW - Transcriptome KW - Zebrafish KW - slc39a14 N2 - Manganese neurotoxicity is a hallmark of Hypermanganesemia with Dystonia 2, an inherited manganese transporter defect caused by mutations in SLC39A14. To identify novel potential targets of manganese neurotoxicity we performed transcriptome analysis of slc39a14-/- mutant zebrafish unexposed and exposed to MnCl2. Differentially expressed genes mapped to the central nervous system and eye, and pathway analysis suggested that calcium dyshomeostasis and activation of the unfolded protein response are key features of manganese neurotoxicity. Consistent with this interpretation, MnCl2 exposure led to decreased whole animal calcium levels, locomotor defects and changes in neuronal activity within the telencephalon and optic tectum. In accordance with reduced tectal activity, slc39a14-/- zebrafish showed changes in visual phototransduction gene expression, absence of visual background adaptation and a diminished optokinetic reflex. Finally, numerous differentially expressed genes in mutant larvae normalised upon MnCl2 treatment indicating that, in addition to neurotoxicity, manganese deficiency is present either subcellularly or in specific cells or tissues. Overall, we assembled a comprehensive set of genes that mediate manganese-systemic responses and found a highly correlated and modulated network associated with calcium dyshomeostasis and cellular stress. ER -