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NEURON
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 90-106Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.05.024
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- NIH [R01NS45523, R37NS41590, R01NS49553, R01NS75672]
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- CajaMadrid Foundation
- Spanish Ministry of Education
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- Paralyzed Veterans of America/Travis Roy Foundation
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Corticothalamic projection neurons (CThPN) are a diverse set of neurons, critical for function of the neocortex. CThPN development and diversity need to be precisely regulated, but little is known about molecular controls over their differentiation and functional specialization, critically limiting understanding of cortical development and complexity. We report the identification of a set of genes that both define CThPN and likely control their differentiation, diversity, and function. We selected the CThPN-specific transcriptional coregulator Fog2 for functional analysis. We identify that Fog2 controls CThPN molecular differentiation, axonal targeting, and diversity, in part by regulating the expression level of Ctip2 by CThPN, via combinatorial interactions with other molecular controls. Loss of Fog2 specifically disrupts differentiation of subsets of CThPN specialized in motor function, indicating that Fog2 coordinates subtype and functional-area differentiation. These results confirm that we identified key controls over CThPN development and identify Fog2 as a critical control over CThPN diversity.
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