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- Title
Antagonistic Regulation of PAF1C and p-TEFb Is Required for Oligodendrocyte Differentiation.
- Authors
Suhyun Kim; Jun-Dae Kim; Ah-Young Chung; Hyung-Seok Kim; Young-Seop Kim; Myoung-Jin Kim; Soonil Koun; You Mie Lee; Myungchull Rhee; Hae-Chul Park; Tae-Lin Huh
- Abstract
Oligodendrocytes are myelinating glial cells in the CNS and are essential for proper neuronal function. During development, oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) are specified from the motor neuron precursor domain of the ventral spinal cord and differentiate into myelinating oligodendrocytes after migration to the white matter of the neural tube. Cell cycle control of OPCs influences the balance between immature OPCs and myelinating oligodendrocytes, but the precise mechanism regulating the differentiation of OPCs into myelinating oligodendrocytes is unclear. To understand the mechanisms underlying oligodendrocyte differentiation, an N-ethyl-Nnitrosourea- based mutagenesis screen was performed and a zebrafish leo1 mutant, dalmuri (dalknu6) was identified in the current study. Leo1 is a component of the evolutionarily conserved RNA polymerase II-associated factor 1 complex (PAF1C), which is a positive regulator of transcription elongation. The dalknu6 mutant embryos specified motor neurons and OPCs normally, and at the appropriate time, but OPCs subsequently failed to differentiate into myelinating oligodendrocytes and were eliminated by apoptosis. A loss-offunction study of cdc73, another member of PAF1C, showed the same phenotype in the CNS, indicating that PAF1C function is required for oligodendrocyte differentiation. Interestingly, inhibition of positive transcription elongation factor b (p-TEFb), rescued downregulated gene expression and impaired oligodendrocyte differentiation in the dalknu6 mutant and Cdc73-deficient embryos. Together, these results indicate that antagonistic regulation of gene expression byPAF1Cand p-TEFb plays a crucial role in oligodendrocyte development
- Subjects
CELL differentiation; NEUROGLIA; CELL cycle; MUTAGENESIS; RNA polymerases; GENETIC transcription; MOTOR neurons
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, 2012, Vol 32, Issue 24, p8201
- ISSN
0270-6474
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5344-11.2012