PUBLICATION
olig2 is required for zebrafish primary motor neuron and oligodendrocyte development
- Authors
- Park, H.-C., Mehta, A., Richardson, J.S., and Appel, B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-020812-2
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Developmental Biology 248(2): 356-368 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Appel, Bruce, Park, Hae-Chul
- Keywords
- zebrafish; oligodendrocyte; glia; motor neuron; spinal cord; neurogenesis; Hedgehog; Olig
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- Cell Differentiation*
- Cloning, Molecular
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hedgehog Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Motor Neurons/cytology*
- Motor Neurons/metabolism
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/chemistry
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism*
- Oligodendroglia/cytology*
- Oligodendroglia/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Signal Transduction
- Trans-Activators/metabolism
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 12167410 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Park, H.-C., Mehta, A., Richardson, J.S., and Appel, B. (2002) olig2 is required for zebrafish primary motor neuron and oligodendrocyte development. Developmental Biology. 248(2):356-368.
Abstract
Oligodendrocytes are produced from the same region of the ventral spinal cord that earlier generated motor neurons in bird and rodent embryos. Motor neuron and oligodendrocyte precursor cells express Olig genes, which encode basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors that play important roles in the development of both motor neurons and oligodendrocytes. We found that oligodendrocytes develop similarly in zebrafish embryos, in that they arise from ventral spinal cord and migrate to new positions. Developing primary motor neurons and oligodendrocytes express olig2 as do neural plate cells that give rise to both primary motor neurons and oligodendrocytes. Loss of olig2 function prevented primary motor neuron and oligodendrocyte development, whereas olig2 overexpression promoted formation of excess primary motor neurons and oligodendrocytes. We provide genetic evidence that Hedgehog signaling is required for zebrafish olig2 expression and oligodendrocyte development. However, olig2 overexpression did not promote primary motor neuron or oligodendrocyte development in embryos with reduced Hedgehog signaling activity. One possibility consistent with these data is that Hedgehog signaling, partly by inducing olig2 expression, specifies neural precursor cells that have potential for primary motor neuron or oligodendrocyte fate.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping