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CELL
Volume 122, Issue 1, Pages 119-131Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.05.009
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS37007] Funding Source: Medline
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Neurons in the developing mammalian brain are generated from progenitor cells in the proliferative ventricular zone, and control of progenitor division is essential to produce the correct number of neurons during neurogenesis. Here we establish that G beta gamma subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins are required for proper mitotic-spindle orientation of neural progenitors in the developing neocortex. Interfering with G beta gamma function in progenitors causes a shift in spindle orientation from apical-basal divisions to planar divisions. This results in hyperdifferentiation of progenitors into neurons as a consequence of both daughter cells adopting a neural fate instead of the normal asymmetric cell fates. Silencing AGS3, a nonreceptor activator of G beta gamma, results in defects similar to the impairment of G beta gamma, providing evidence that AGS3-G beta gamma signaling in progenitors regulates apical-basal division and asymmetric cell-fate decisions. Furthermore, our observations indicate that the cell-fate decision of daughter cells is coupled to mitotic-spindle orientation in progenitors.
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