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MicroRNA-92b regulates the development of intermediate cortical progenitors in embryonic mouse brain.


ABSTRACT: Cerebral cortical neurons arise from radial glia (direct neurogenesis) or from intermediate progenitors (indirect neurogenesis); intriguingly, the sizes of intermediate progenitor populations and the cortices they generate correlate across species. The generation of intermediate progenitors is regulated by the transcription factor Tbr2, whose expression marks these cells. We investigated how this mechanism might be controlled. We found that acute blockade of mature microRNA biosynthesis in murine cortical progenitors caused a rapid cell autonomous increase in numbers of Tbr2-expressing cells. Acute microRNA-92b (miR-92b) gain of function caused rapid reductions in numbers of Tbr2-expressing cells and proliferating intermediate progenitors. Acute miR-92b loss of function had opposite effects. These findings indicate that miR-92b limits the production of intermediate cortical progenitors.

SUBMITTER: Nowakowski TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3637761 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MicroRNA-92b regulates the development of intermediate cortical progenitors in embryonic mouse brain.

Nowakowski Tomasz Jan TJ   Fotaki Vassiliki V   Pollock Andrew A   Sun Tao T   Pratt Thomas T   Price David J DJ  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130408 17


Cerebral cortical neurons arise from radial glia (direct neurogenesis) or from intermediate progenitors (indirect neurogenesis); intriguingly, the sizes of intermediate progenitor populations and the cortices they generate correlate across species. The generation of intermediate progenitors is regulated by the transcription factor Tbr2, whose expression marks these cells. We investigated how this mechanism might be controlled. We found that acute blockade of mature microRNA biosynthesis in murin  ...[more]

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