期刊
EMBO REPORTS
卷 23, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.15252/embr.202254728
关键词
ARHGAP11B; brain organoids; human-specific genes; neocortex development; neocortex evolution
资金
- ERA-NET NEURON (MicroKin) grant
- ERA-NET NEURON (STEM-MCD) grant
- Hector Stiftung II
- ERC [101039421]
- Projekt DEAL
- European Research Council (ERC) [101039421] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Genetic manipulation of ARHGAP11B levels and function in chimpanzee and human cerebral organoids demonstrates that ARHGAP11B is essential for maintaining elevated basal progenitor levels in the developing human neocortex, indicating its significant role in human brain evolution.
The human-specific gene ARHGAP11B has been implicated in human neocortex expansion. However, the extent of ARHGAP11B's contribution to this expansion during hominid evolution is unknown. Here we address this issue by genetic manipulation of ARHGAP11B levels and function in chimpanzee and human cerebral organoids. ARHGAP11B expression in chimpanzee cerebral organoids doubles basal progenitor levels, the class of cortical progenitors with a key role in neocortex expansion. Conversely, interference with ARHGAP11B's function in human cerebral organoids decreases basal progenitors down to the chimpanzee level. Moreover, ARHGAP11A or ARHGAP11B rescue experiments in ARHGAP11A plus ARHGAP11B double-knockout human forebrain organoids indicate that lack of ARHGAP11B, but not of ARHGAP11A, decreases the abundance of basal radial glia-the basal progenitor type thought to be of particular relevance for neocortex expansion. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that ARHGAP11B is necessary and sufficient to ensure the elevated basal progenitor levels that characterize the fetal human neocortex, suggesting that this human-specific gene was a major contributor to neocortex expansion during human evolution.
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