SoxD Proteins Influence Multiple Stages of Oligodendrocyte Development and Modulate SoxE Protein Function
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The myelin-forming oligodendrocytes are an excellent model to study transcriptional regulation of specification events, lineage progression, and terminal differentiation in the central nervous system. Here, we show that the group D Sox transcription factors Sox5 and Sox6 jointly and cell-autonomously regulate several stages of oligodendrocyte development in the mouse spinal cord. They repress specification and terminal differentiation and influence migration patterns. As a consequence, oligodendrocyte precursors and terminally differentiating oligodendrocytes appear precociously in spinal cords deficient for both Sox proteins. Sox5 and Sox6 have opposite functions than the group E Sox proteins Sox9 and Sox10, which promote oligodendrocyte specification and terminal differentiation. Both genetic as well as molecular evidence suggests that Sox5 and Sox6 directly interfere with the function of group E Sox proteins. Our studies reveal a complex regulatory network between different groups of Sox proteins that is essential for proper progression of oligodendrocyte development.
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COPs express Neu4 and genes involved in keeping oligodendrocytes undifferentiated (Sox6, Bmp4, Gpr17).
“expressed Neu4 and genes involved in keeping oligodendrocytes undifferentiated (Sox6, Bmp4 and Gpr17) (9–11)”
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- Stolt, C. C., Schlierf, A., Lommes, P., Hillgärtner, S., Werner, T., Kosian, T., Sock, E., Kessaris, N., Richardson, W. D., Lefebvre, V., & Wegner, M.
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Congenital heart defects research
- Keywords
- oligodendrocyte development, SOX5, SOX6, SOX9, SOX10, Sox transcription factors, terminal differentiation, oligodendrocyte migration, spinal cord, myelination, transcriptional repression, lineage progression
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cell Differentiation, DNA-Binding Proteins, High Mobility Group Proteins, Mutation, Myelin Sheath, Nuclear Proteins, Oligodendroglia, Spinal Cord, Transcription Factors, Mice, Knockout, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Cell Lineage, Mice, SOXD Transcription Factors, SOXE Transcription Factors, SOX9 Transcription Factor
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