FatJ acts via the Hippo mediator Yap1 to restrict the size of neural progenitor cell pools
| Autor: | Anne-Gaëlle Borycki, Guillaume M. Hautbergue, Marysia Placzek, Raman M. Das, Nick Van Hateren, Stuart A. Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Neural Tube
Cellular differentiation Cell Count Chick Embryo Biology Avian Proteins Neural Stem Cells medicine Animals RNA Small Interfering Progenitor cell Molecular Biology Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis Progenitor YAP1 Hippo signaling pathway Base Sequence Cadherin Neural tube Gene Expression Regulation Developmental Development and Stem Cells Cadherins Molecular biology Neural stem cell Cell biology Phenotype medicine.anatomical_structure Gene Knockdown Techniques RNA Interference Signal Transduction Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Development. 138:1893-1902 |
| ISSN: | 1477-9129 0950-1991 |
| Popis: | The size, composition and functioning of the spinal cord is likely to depend on appropriate numbers of progenitor and differentiated cells of a particular class, but little is known about how cell numbers are controlled in specific cell cohorts along the dorsoventral axis of the neural tube. Here, we show that FatJ cadherin, identified in a large-scale RNA interference (RNAi) screen of cadherin genes expressed in the neural tube, is localised to progenitors in intermediate regions of the neural tube. Loss of function of FatJ promotes an increase in dp4-vp1 progenitors and a concomitant increase in differentiated Lim1+/Lim2+ neurons. Our studies reveal that FatJ mediates its action via the Hippo pathway mediator Yap1: loss of downstream Hippo components can rescue the defect caused by loss of FatJ. Together, our data demonstrate that RNAi screens are feasible in the chick embryonic neural tube, and show that FatJ acts through the Hippo pathway to regulate cell numbers in specific subsets of neural progenitor pools and their differentiated progeny. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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