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BIOLOGY OPEN
卷 8, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.042168
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TAFs; Neural stem cells; Transcription
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资金
- Chromosome Metabolism and Cancer Training Grant [2T32CA009657]
- National Institutes of Health [CA057138, NS090037]
The transcriptional mechanisms that allow neural stem cells (NSC) to balance self-renewal with differentiation are not well understood. Employing an in vivo RNAi screen we identify here NSC-TAFs, a subset of nine TATA binding protein associated factors (TAFs), as NSC identity genes in Drosophila. We found that depletion of NSC TAFs results in decreased NSC clone size, reduced proliferation, defective cell polarity and increased hypersensitivity to cell cycle perturbation, without affecting NSC survival. Integrated gene expression and genomic binding analyses revealed that NSC-TAFs function with both TBP and TRF2, and that NSC-TAF-TBP and NSC-TAF-TRF2 shared target genes encode different subsets of transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins with established or emerging roles in NSC identity and brain development. Taken together, our results demonstrate that core promoter factors are selectively required for NSC identity in vivo by promoting cell cycle progression and NSC cell polarity. Because pathogenic variants in a subset of TAFs have all been linked to human neurological disorders, this work may stimulate and inform future animal models of TAF-linked neurological disorders.
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