RRC ID 36125
著者 Enriquez J, Venkatasubramanian L, Baek M, Peterson M, Aghayeva U, Mann RS.
タイトル Specification of individual adult motor neuron morphologies by combinatorial transcription factor codes.
ジャーナル Neuron
Abstract How the highly stereotyped morphologies of individual neurons are genetically specified is not well understood. We identify six transcription factors (TFs) expressed in a combinatorial manner in seven post-mitotic adult leg motor neurons (MNs) that are derived from a single neuroblast in Drosophila. Unlike TFs expressed in mitotically active neuroblasts, these TFs do not regulate each other's expression. Removing the activity of a single TF resulted in specific morphological defects, including muscle targeting and dendritic arborization, and in a highly specific walking defect in adult flies. In contrast, when the expression of multiple TFs was modified, nearly complete transformations in MN morphologies were generated. These results show that the morphological characteristics of a single neuron are dictated by a combinatorial code of morphology TFs (mTFs). mTFs function at a previously unidentified regulatory tier downstream of factors acting in the NB but independently of factors that act in terminally differentiated neurons.
巻・号 86(4)
ページ 955-970
公開日 2015-5-20
DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.04.011
PII S0896-6273(15)00340-2
PMID 25959734
PMC PMC4441546
MeSH Animals Cell Differentiation / genetics Cell Differentiation / physiology Cell Lineage Dendrites / metabolism Dendrites / pathology* Drosophila Proteins / genetics Drosophila Proteins / metabolism Drosophila melanogaster Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental / physiology* Homeodomain Proteins / genetics Homeodomain Proteins / metabolism* Motor Neurons / cytology Motor Neurons / metabolism* Transcription Factors / metabolism*
IF 14.415
引用数 33
WOS 分野 NEUROSCIENCES
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