Activin and GDF11 collaborate in feedback control of neuroepithelial stem cell proliferation and fate

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Studies of the olfactory epithelium model system have demonstrated that production of neurons is regulated by negative feedback. Previously, we showed that a locally produced signal, the TGF beta superfamily ligand GDF11, regulates the genesis of olfactory receptor neurons by inhibiting proliferation of the immediate neuronal precursors (INPs) that give rise to them. GDF11 is antagonized by follistatin (FST), which is also produced locally. Here, we show that Fst(-/-) mice exhibit dramatically decreased neurogenesis, a phenotype that can only be partially explained by increased GDF11 activity. Instead, a second FST-binding factor, activin. beta B (ACT beta B), inhibits neurogenesis by a distinct mechanism: whereas GDF11 inhibits expansion of INPs, ACT beta B inhibits expansion of stem and early progenitor cells. We present data supporting the concept that these latter cells, previously considered two distinct types, constitute a dynamic stem/progenitor population in which individual cells alternate expression of Sox2 and/or Ascl1. In addition, we demonstrate that interplay between ACT beta B and GDF11 determines whether stem/progenitor cells adopt a glial versus neuronal fate. Altogether, the data indicate that the transition between stem cells and committed progenitors is neither sharp nor irreversible and that GDF11, ACT beta B and FST are crucial components of a circuit that controls both total cell number and the ratio of neuronal versus glial cells in this system. Thus, our findings demonstrate a close connection between the signals involved in the control of tissue size and those that regulate the proportions of different cell types.
Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
Issue Date
2011-10
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

ADULT OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; RECEPTOR NEURON LINEAGE; GLOBOSE BASAL-CELLS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; MAMMALIAN ACHAETE-SCUTE; CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM; PROGENITOR CELLS; DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-11; MULTIPOTENT PROGENITORS; EXPRESSION PATTERNS

Citation

DEVELOPMENT, v.138, no.19, pp.4131 - 4142

ISSN
0950-1991
DOI
10.1242/dev.065870
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/101480
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MSE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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