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Regenerative neurogenic response from glia requires insulin-driven neuron-glia communication

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ELIFE
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -

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ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.58756

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  1. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L008343/1, BB/R00871X/1]
  2. BBSRC [BB/L008343/1, BB/R00871X/1, 1790826] Funding Source: UKRI

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Understanding the relationship between Drosophila neurogenesis-related genes and glial cells reveals that la-2 and Dilp-6 drive the reprogramming of glial cells into neural stem cells for regeneration.
Understanding how injury to the central nervous system induces de novo neurogenesis in animals would help promote regeneration in humans. Regenerative neurogenesis could originate from glia and glial neuron-glia antigen-2 (NG2) may sense injury-induced neuronal signals, but these are unknown. Here, we used Drosophila to search for genes functionally related to the NG2 homologue kon-tiki (kon), and identified Islet Antigen-2 (la-2), required in neurons for insulin secretion. Both loss and over-expression of ia-2 induced neural stem cell gene expression, injury increased ia-2 expression and induced ectopic neural stem cells. Using genetic analysis and lineage tracing, we demonstrate that la-2 and Kon regulate Drosophila insulin-like peptide 6 (Dilp-6) to induce glial proliferation and neural stem cells from glia. Ectopic neural stem cells can divide, and limited de novo neurogenesis could be traced back to glial cells. Altogether, la-2 and Dilp-6 drive a neuron-glia relay that restores glia and reprogrammes glia into neural stem cells for regeneration.

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