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STEM CELL REPORTS
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 968-984Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.03.008
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- DFG [TU432/1-1, TU432/3-1, TU432/6-1]
- Schram-Stiftung
- DZNE
- ERC [648898, SFB1286]
- DFG under Germany's Excellence Strategy [EXC 2067/1390729940]
- European Research Council (ERC) [648898] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Intermediate progenitor cells (IPCs) are neocortical neuronal precursors. Although IPCs play crucial roles in corticogenesis, their molecular features remain largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to characterize the molecular profile of IPCs. We isolated TBR2-positive (+) IPCs and TBR2-negative (-) cell populations in the developing mouse cortex. Comparative genome-wide gene expression analysis of TBR2+ IPCs versus TBR2- cells revealed differences in key factors involved in chromatid segregation, cell-cycle regulation, transcriptional regulation, and cell signaling. Notably, mutation of many IPC genes in human has led to intellectual disability and caused a wide range of cortical malformations, including microcephaly and agenesis of corpus callosum. Loss-of-function experiments in cortex-specific mutants of Esco2, one of the novel IPC genes, demonstrate its critical role in IPC maintenance, and substantiate the identification of a central genetic determinant of IPC biogenesis. Our data provide novel molecular characteristics of IPCs in the developing mouse cortex.
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