The lincRNA Pantr1 mediates site-specific chromatin binding of FOXG1 in hippocampal neurons

Derailed gene expression programs within the developing nervous system, encompassing both transcriptional and posttranscriptional processes, are implicated in diverse neurodevelopmental diseases. One of those debilitating diseases, the FOXG1-syndrome, lacks full understanding of the mechanistic role of its eponymous gene product, FOXG1. While it is known that FOXG1 acts in part at the chromatin by binding to regulative regions, it is unclear what factors control its presence at specific sites. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can mediate site-directed transcription factor binding, but their potential role in FOXG1-syndrome has not been described. Here, we show that the lncRNA Pantr1 mediates site specific binding of FOXG1 using FOXG1 ChIP sequencing upon Pantr1 knockdown. FOXG1 ChIP-seq was performed on samples collected from DIV7 primary hippocampal neurons treated with shPantr1 or shLuciferase.