Identification of SoxC-regulated genes during neurogenesis in the developing spinal cord [mouse]
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE106786 | GEO | 2018/05/10
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:The HMG-domain containing SoxC transcription factors Sox4 and Sox11 are expressed in the vertebrate central nervous system in neuronal precursors and neuroblasts. They are required during early stages of neurogenesis. Here we perform micorarray analysis to identify genes that are downstream of these SoxC proteins during spinal cord neurogenesis in chicken. The identified genes represent potential direct target genes of Sox4 and Sox11.
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Project description:During organogenesis, neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells give rise to many cell lineages, but their molecular requirements for self-renewal and lineage decisions are incompletely understood. Here we show that their survival critically relies on the redundantly acting SoxC transcription factors Sox4, Sox11 and Sox12. The more SoxC alleles are deleted in mouse embryos, the more severe and widespread organ hypoplasia is. SoxC triple-null embryos die at mid-gestation unturned and tiny, with normal patterning and lineage specification, but with massively dying neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells. Specific inactivation of SoxC genes in neural and mesenchymal cells leads to selective apoptosis of these cells, suggesting SoxC cell-autonomous roles. Tead2 functionally interacts with the SoxC genes in embryonic development, and is a direct target of the SoxC proteins. The SoxC genes therefore ensure neural and mesenchymal progenitor cell survival and act in part by activating this transcriptional mediator of the Hippo signaling pathway. During organogenesis, neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells give rise to many cell lineages, but their molecular requirements for self-renewal and lineage decisions are incompletely understood. Here we show that their survival critically relies on the redundantly acting SoxC transcription factors Sox4, Sox11 and Sox12. The more SoxC alleles are deleted in mouse embryos, the more severe and widespread organ hypoplasia is. SoxC triple-null embryos die at mid-gestation unturned and tiny, with normal patterning and lineage specification, but with massively dying neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells. Specific inactivation of SoxC genes in neural and mesenchymal cells leads to selective apoptosis of these cells, suggesting SoxC cell-autonomous roles. Tead2 functionally interacts with the SoxC genes in embryonic development, and is a direct target of the SoxC proteins. The SoxC genes therefore ensure neural and mesenchymal progenitor cell survival and act in part by activating this transcriptional mediator of the Hippo signaling pathway. Total RNA isolated from limb bud cells in culture treated with Cre recombinase expressing adenovirus to inactivate floxed SoxC genes was compared to total RNA isolated from cells treated with LacZ expressing adenovirus as well as untreated cells as controls.
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Project description:SOXC genes (i.e., SOX4, SOX11 and SOX12) encode for transcription factors controlling survival, proliferation, commitment and differentiation of several cell types from development onwards. Although human diseases indicate crucial roles for SOXC in bone development and maintenance, SOXC activities in osteoblastic cells remain elusive. Here, we used a mouse model to inactivate SOXC genes in the osteoblast lineage cells using an OsxCre transgene (Sox4fl/fl Sox11fl/fl Sox12fl/fl OsxCre mice referred to as SOXCOsxCre mice) and we used single-cell RNA-sequencing assays to characterize gene expression changes in bone and bone marrow cells in adulthood.
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Project description:During organogenesis, neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells give rise to many cell lineages, but their molecular requirements for self-renewal and lineage decisions are incompletely understood. Here we show that their survival critically relies on the redundantly acting SoxC transcription factors Sox4, Sox11 and Sox12. The more SoxC alleles are deleted in mouse embryos, the more severe and widespread organ hypoplasia is. SoxC triple-null embryos die at mid-gestation unturned and tiny, with normal patterning and lineage specification, but with massively dying neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells. Specific inactivation of SoxC genes in neural and mesenchymal cells leads to selective apoptosis of these cells, suggesting SoxC cell-autonomous roles. Tead2 functionally interacts with the SoxC genes in embryonic development, and is a direct target of the SoxC proteins. The SoxC genes therefore ensure neural and mesenchymal progenitor cell survival and act in part by activating this transcriptional mediator of the Hippo signaling pathway. During organogenesis, neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells give rise to many cell lineages, but their molecular requirements for self-renewal and lineage decisions are incompletely understood. Here we show that their survival critically relies on the redundantly acting SoxC transcription factors Sox4, Sox11 and Sox12. The more SoxC alleles are deleted in mouse embryos, the more severe and widespread organ hypoplasia is. SoxC triple-null embryos die at mid-gestation unturned and tiny, with normal patterning and lineage specification, but with massively dying neural and mesenchymal progenitor cells. Specific inactivation of SoxC genes in neural and mesenchymal cells leads to selective apoptosis of these cells, suggesting SoxC cell-autonomous roles. Tead2 functionally interacts with the SoxC genes in embryonic development, and is a direct target of the SoxC proteins. The SoxC genes therefore ensure neural and mesenchymal progenitor cell survival and act in part by activating this transcriptional mediator of the Hippo signaling pathway.
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Project description:The early retinal progenitor-expressed gene Sox11 regulates the timing of the differentiation of retinal cells. Sry-related HMG box (Sox) proteins play diverse and critical roles in a variety of morphogenetic processes during embryonic development. Sox11 and Sox4 are members of the SoxC subtype, and we found that Sox11 was strongly expressed in early retinal progenitor cells, and that when expression of Sox11 subsided around birth, Sox4 expression began. To analyze the role of Sox11 and Sox4 in retinal development, we perturbed their expression pattern by expressing them ectopically in retinal explant culture. Overexpression of Sox11 or Sox4 in retinal progenitors resulted in similar phenotypes, that is, increased cone cells and decreased Muller glia. Sox11-knockout retinas showed delayed onset and progress of differentiation of early-born retinal cells during the embryonic period. After birth, retinal differentiation took place relatively normally, probably because of the redundant activity of Sox4, which starts to differentiate around birth. Neither overexpression nor loss-of-function analysis gave any evidence that Sox11 and Sox4 directly regulate transcription of genes critical to early-born retinal cells. However, histone H3 acetylation status of the early neurogenic genes was lowered in knockout retinas, suggesting that Sox11 regulates the timing of differentiation in early-born retinas by creating an epigenetic state that helps to establish the competency to differentiate. We also found that the unique expression patterns of Sox11 and Sox4 may be achieved by the Notch signaling pathway and by epigenetic regulation. Taking our findings together, we propose that the precise regulation of Sox11 and Sox4 expression during retinogenesis by multiple mechanisms leads to the fine adjustment of retinal differentiation. To delineate the molecular mechanisms underlying the retinal action of Sox11, we performed microarray analysis of E18 retinas from wild-type and Sox11 knockout mice. Total RNA was obtained from each one retina of Sox11 knockout and wild-type littermate embryos at E18.
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Project description:Understanding the molecular basis of competence acquisition by the lineage-specific progenitor cells can provide mechanistic insights into tissue development and regeneration. The sensory epithelium of the inner ear represents a convenient model to study this process, as only two cell types – the mechanosensory hair cells and their associated supporting cells – are specified from a single pool of progenitors in this lineage. Here we show that competence to respond to Atoh1, a transcriptional master regulator both necessary and sufficient for induction of mechanosensory hair cells, is established in the organ of Corti progenitor cells between E12.0 and 13.5. The transition to the competent state is rapid and is associated with extensive remodeling of the epigenetic landscape controlled by the SoxC group of transcription factors. Conditional loss of Sox4 and Sox11 – the two homologous family members transiently expressed in the inner ear at the time of competence establishment – blocks the ability of sensory progenitors to differentiate into hair cells. Mechanistically, we show that Sox4 binds to and establishes accessibility of early sensory lineage-specific regulatory elements, including ones associated with Atoh1 itself and its direct downstream targets. Consistent with these observations, overexpression of Sox4 or Sox11 prior to developmental establishment of competence precociously induces hair cell differentiation in the cochlear progenitors. Further, reintroducing Sox4 or Sox11 expression restores the ability of postnatal supporting cells to differentiate as hair cells in vitro and in vivo. Our findings demonstrate the pivotal role of SoxC family members as agents of epigenetic and transcriptional changes necessary for establishing competence for sensory receptor differentiation in the inner ear.
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Project description:The early retinal progenitor-expressed gene Sox11 regulates the timing of the differentiation of retinal cells. Sry-related HMG box (Sox) proteins play diverse and critical roles in a variety of morphogenetic processes during embryonic development. Sox11 and Sox4 are members of the SoxC subtype, and we found that Sox11 was strongly expressed in early retinal progenitor cells, and that when expression of Sox11 subsided around birth, Sox4 expression began. To analyze the role of Sox11 and Sox4 in retinal development, we perturbed their expression pattern by expressing them ectopically in retinal explant culture. Overexpression of Sox11 or Sox4 in retinal progenitors resulted in similar phenotypes, that is, increased cone cells and decreased Muller glia. Sox11-knockout retinas showed delayed onset and progress of differentiation of early-born retinal cells during the embryonic period. After birth, retinal differentiation took place relatively normally, probably because of the redundant activity of Sox4, which starts to differentiate around birth. Neither overexpression nor loss-of-function analysis gave any evidence that Sox11 and Sox4 directly regulate transcription of genes critical to early-born retinal cells. However, histone H3 acetylation status of the early neurogenic genes was lowered in knockout retinas, suggesting that Sox11 regulates the timing of differentiation in early-born retinas by creating an epigenetic state that helps to establish the competency to differentiate. We also found that the unique expression patterns of Sox11 and Sox4 may be achieved by the Notch signaling pathway and by epigenetic regulation. Taking our findings together, we propose that the precise regulation of Sox11 and Sox4 expression during retinogenesis by multiple mechanisms leads to the fine adjustment of retinal differentiation.
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Project description:Identification of SoxC-regulated genes during neurogenesis in the developing spinal cord
| PRJNA418039 | ENA
Project description:Identification of SoxC-regulated genes during neurogenesis in the developing spinal cord [mouse]
| PRJNA418040 | ENA