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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 303, Issue 2, Pages 549-560Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.11.031
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jmjC; cyclin D1; Neurogenesis; hindbrain; mitosis; cell cycle exit; radial migration; neuronal differentiation; neural progenitor cell; transcriptional repressor
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During development of the mouse central nervous system (CNS), most neural progenitor cells proliferate in the ventricular zone (VZ). In many regions of the CNS, neural progenitor cells give rise to postmitotic neurons that initiate neuronal differentiation and migrate out of the VZ to the mantle zone (MZ). Thereafter, they remain in a quiescent state. Here, we found many ectopic mitotic cells and cell clusters expressing neural progenitor or proneural marker genes in the MZ of the hindbrain of jumonji (jmj) mutant embryos. When we examined the expression of cyclin D1, which is repressed by jmj in the repression of cardiac myocyte proliferation, we found many ectopic clusters expressing both cyclin D1 and Musashi I in the MZ of mutant embryos. jmj is mainly expressed in the cyclin D I negative region in the hindbrain, and cyclin D I expression in the VZ was upregulated in jmj mutant mice. In jmj and cyclin D1 double mutant mice, the ectopic mitosis and formation of the abnormal clusters in the MZ were rescued. These results suggest that a jmj-cyclin D1 pathway is required for the precise coordination of cell cycle exit and migration during neurogenesis in the mouse hindbrain. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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