Autor: |
Chwee Tat Koe, Song Li, Fabrizio Rossi, Jack Jing Lin Wong, Yan Wang, Zhizhuo Zhang, Keng Chen, Sherry Shiying Aw, Helena E Richardson, Paul Robson, Wing-Kin Sung, Fengwei Yu, Cayetano Gonzalez, Hongyan Wang |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2014 |
Předmět: |
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Zdroj: |
eLife, Vol 3 (2014) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2050-084X |
DOI: |
10.7554/eLife.01906 |
Popis: |
The control of self-renewal and differentiation of neural stem and progenitor cells is a crucial issue in stem cell and cancer biology. Drosophila type II neuroblast lineages are prone to developing impaired neuroblast homeostasis if the limited self-renewing potential of intermediate neural progenitors (INPs) is unrestrained. Here, we demonstrate that Drosophila SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling Brahma (Brm) complex functions cooperatively with another chromatin remodeling factor, Histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) to suppress the formation of ectopic type II neuroblasts. We show that multiple components of the Brm complex and HDAC3 physically associate with Earmuff (Erm), a type II-specific transcription factor that prevents dedifferentiation of INPs into neuroblasts. Consistently, the predicted Erm-binding motif is present in most of known binding loci of Brm. Furthermore, brm and hdac3 genetically interact with erm to prevent type II neuroblast overgrowth. Thus, the Brm-HDAC3-Erm repressor complex suppresses dedifferentiation of INPs back into type II neuroblasts. |
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