Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon.
Early telencephalic development involves transformation of neuroepithelial stem cells into radial glia, which are themselves neuronal progenitors, around the time when the tissue begins to generate postmitotic neurons. To achieve this transformation, radial precursors express a specific combination...
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| description | Early telencephalic development involves transformation of neuroepithelial stem cells into radial glia, which are themselves neuronal progenitors, around the time when the tissue begins to generate postmitotic neurons. To achieve this transformation, radial precursors express a specific combination of proteins. We investigate the hypothesis that micro RNAs regulate the ability of the early telencephalic progenitors to establish radial glia. We ablate functional Dicer, which is required for the generation of mature micro RNAs, by conditionally mutating the Dicer1 gene in the early embryonic telencephalon and analyse the molecular specification of radial glia as well as their progeny, namely postmitotic neurons and basal progenitors. Conditional mutation of Dicer1 from the telencephalon at around embryonic day 8 does not prevent morphological development of radial glia, but their expression of Nestin, Sox9, and ErbB2 is abnormally low. The population of basal progenitors, which are generated by the radial glia, is disorganised and expanded in Dicer1⁻/⁻ dorsal telencephalon. While the proportion of cells expressing markers of postmitotic neurons is unchanged, their laminar organisation in the telencephalic wall is disrupted suggesting a defect in radial glial guided migration. We found that the laminar disruption could not be accounted for by a reduction of the population of Cajal Retzius neurons. Together, our data suggest novel roles for micro RNAs during early development of progenitor cells in the embryonic telencephalon. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-97f97edf27a848a290c063f4c7a32f122025-08-20T03:09:48ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032011-01-0168e2301310.1371/journal.pone.0023013Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon.Tomasz Jan NowakowskiKarolina Sandra MysiakThomas PrattDavid Jonathan PriceEarly telencephalic development involves transformation of neuroepithelial stem cells into radial glia, which are themselves neuronal progenitors, around the time when the tissue begins to generate postmitotic neurons. To achieve this transformation, radial precursors express a specific combination of proteins. We investigate the hypothesis that micro RNAs regulate the ability of the early telencephalic progenitors to establish radial glia. We ablate functional Dicer, which is required for the generation of mature micro RNAs, by conditionally mutating the Dicer1 gene in the early embryonic telencephalon and analyse the molecular specification of radial glia as well as their progeny, namely postmitotic neurons and basal progenitors. Conditional mutation of Dicer1 from the telencephalon at around embryonic day 8 does not prevent morphological development of radial glia, but their expression of Nestin, Sox9, and ErbB2 is abnormally low. The population of basal progenitors, which are generated by the radial glia, is disorganised and expanded in Dicer1⁻/⁻ dorsal telencephalon. While the proportion of cells expressing markers of postmitotic neurons is unchanged, their laminar organisation in the telencephalic wall is disrupted suggesting a defect in radial glial guided migration. We found that the laminar disruption could not be accounted for by a reduction of the population of Cajal Retzius neurons. Together, our data suggest novel roles for micro RNAs during early development of progenitor cells in the embryonic telencephalon.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023013&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Tomasz Jan Nowakowski Karolina Sandra Mysiak Thomas Pratt David Jonathan Price Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon. PLoS ONE |
| title | Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon. |
| title_full | Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon. |
| title_fullStr | Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon. |
| title_short | Functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon. |
| title_sort | functional dicer is necessary for appropriate specification of radial glia during early development of mouse telencephalon |
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