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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 418-427Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2280
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- DFG Emmy Noether-program
- Sonderforschungsbereich [446]
- Schram-Stiftung
- Tubingen University
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [NO 120/12-2]
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In neurons, serum response factor (SRF)-directed transcription regulates migration, axon pathfinding and synapse function. We found that forebrain-specific, neuron-restricted SRF ablation in mice elevated oligodendrocyte precursors while inhibiting terminal oligodendrocyte differentiation. Myelin gene and protein expression were downregulated and we observed a lack of oligodendrocytes in mixed neuron/ glia and oligodendrocyte-enriched cultures derived from Srf(-/-) mutants. Ultrastructural inspection revealed myelination defects and axonal degeneration in Srf(-/-) mutants. Consistent with our finding that neuronal SRF depletion impaired oligodendrocyte fate in a non-cell autonomous manner, neuron-restricted expression of constitutively active SRF-VP16 affected neighboring oligodendrocyte maturation. Genome-wide transcriptomics identified candidate genes for paracrine regulation of oligodendrocyte development, including connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), whose expression is repressed by SRF. Adenovirus-mediated CTGF expression in vivo revealed that CTGF blocks excessive oligodendrocyte differentiation. In vitro, CTGF-mediated inhibition of oligodendrocyte maturation involved sequestration and thereby counteraction of insulin growth factor 1-stimulated oligodendrocyte differentiation.
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