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Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states
Notch signaling is required to repress the formation of vertebrate cone photoreceptors and to maintain the proliferative potential of multipotent retinal progenitor cells. However, the mechanism by which Notch signaling controls these processes is unknown. Recently, restricted retinal progenitor cel...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8282820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34267251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93692-w |
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author | Chen, Xueqing Emerson, Mark M. |
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description | Notch signaling is required to repress the formation of vertebrate cone photoreceptors and to maintain the proliferative potential of multipotent retinal progenitor cells. However, the mechanism by which Notch signaling controls these processes is unknown. Recently, restricted retinal progenitor cells with limited proliferation capacity and that preferentially generate cone photoreceptors have been identified. Thus, there are several potential steps during cone genesis that Notch signaling could act. Here we use cell type specific cis-regulatory elements to localize the primary role of Notch signaling in cone genesis to the formation of restricted retinal progenitor cells from multipotent retinal progenitor cells. Localized inhibition of Notch signaling in restricted progenitor cells does not alter the number of cones derived from these cells. Cell cycle promotion is not a primary effect of Notch signaling but an indirect effect on progenitor cell state transitions that leads to depletion of the multipotent progenitor cell population. Taken together, this suggests that the role of Notch signaling in cone photoreceptor formation and proliferation are both mediated by a localized function of Notch in multipotent retinal progenitor cells to repress the formation of restricted progenitor cells. |
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spelling | pubmed-82828202021-07-19 Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states Chen, Xueqing Emerson, Mark M. Sci Rep Article Notch signaling is required to repress the formation of vertebrate cone photoreceptors and to maintain the proliferative potential of multipotent retinal progenitor cells. However, the mechanism by which Notch signaling controls these processes is unknown. Recently, restricted retinal progenitor cells with limited proliferation capacity and that preferentially generate cone photoreceptors have been identified. Thus, there are several potential steps during cone genesis that Notch signaling could act. Here we use cell type specific cis-regulatory elements to localize the primary role of Notch signaling in cone genesis to the formation of restricted retinal progenitor cells from multipotent retinal progenitor cells. Localized inhibition of Notch signaling in restricted progenitor cells does not alter the number of cones derived from these cells. Cell cycle promotion is not a primary effect of Notch signaling but an indirect effect on progenitor cell state transitions that leads to depletion of the multipotent progenitor cell population. Taken together, this suggests that the role of Notch signaling in cone photoreceptor formation and proliferation are both mediated by a localized function of Notch in multipotent retinal progenitor cells to repress the formation of restricted progenitor cells. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8282820/ /pubmed/34267251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93692-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Chen, Xueqing Emerson, Mark M. Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
title | Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
title_full | Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
title_fullStr | Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
title_full_unstemmed | Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
title_short | Notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
title_sort | notch signaling represses cone photoreceptor formation through the regulation of retinal progenitor cell states |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8282820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34267251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93692-w |
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