OSVZ progenitors of human and ferret neocortex are epithelial-like and expand by integrin signaling - PubMed (original) (raw)
doi: 10.1038/nn.2553. Epub 2010 May 2.
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- DOI: 10.1038/nn.2553
OSVZ progenitors of human and ferret neocortex are epithelial-like and expand by integrin signaling
Simone A Fietz et al. Nat Neurosci. 2010 Jun.
Abstract
A major cause of the cerebral cortex expansion that occurred during evolution is the increase in subventricular zone (SVZ) progenitors. We found that progenitors in the outer SVZ (OSVZ) of developing human neocortex retain features of radial glia, in contrast to rodent SVZ progenitors, which have limited proliferation potential. Although delaminating from apical adherens junctions, OSVZ progenitors maintained a basal process contacting the basal lamina, a canonical epithelial property. OSVZ progenitor divisions resulted in asymmetric inheritance of their basal process. Notably, OSVZ progenitors are also found in the ferret, a gyrencephalic nonprimate. Functional disruption of integrins, expressed on the basal process of ferret OSVZ progenitors, markedly decreased the OSVZ progenitor population size, but not that of other, process-lacking SVZ progenitors, in slice cultures of ferret neocortex. Our findings suggest that maintenance of this epithelial property allows integrin-mediated, repeated asymmetric divisions of OSVZ progenitors, providing a basis for neocortical expansion.
Comment in
- A new contribution to brain convolution: progenitor cell logistics during cortex development.
Tyler WA, Haydar TF. Tyler WA, et al. Nat Neurosci. 2010 Jun;13(6):656-7. doi: 10.1038/nn0610-656. Nat Neurosci. 2010. PMID: 20498684 No abstract available.
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