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NEURON
Volume 55, Issue 2, Pages 217-230Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.06.029
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM53874] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS042925, R01 NS042925-05A1, NS42925, R37 NS042925] Funding Source: Medline
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The progression of progenitors to oligodendrocytes requires proliferative arrest and the activation of a transcriptional program of differentiation. While regulation of cell cycle exit has been extensively characterized, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the initiation of differentiation remain ill-defined. Here, we identify the transcription factor Yin Yang 1 (YY1) as a critical regulator of oligodendrocyte progenitor differentiation. Conditional ablation of yyl in the oligodendrocyte lineage in vivo induces a phenotype characterized by defective myelination, ataxia, and tremor. At the cellular level, lack of yyl arrests differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitors after they exit from the cell cycle. At the molecular level, YY1 acts as a lineage-specific repressor of transcriptional inhibitors of myelin gene expression (Tcf4 and ld4), by recruiting histone deacetylase-1 to their promoters during oligodendrocyte, differentiation. Thus, we identify YY1 as an essential component of the transcriptional network regulating the transition of oligodendrocyte progenitors from cell cycle exit to differentiation.
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