Ependymal cells of chordate larvae are stem-like cells that form the adult nervous system

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7331, 2011, Pages 525-529

  Horie, Takeo ^a   Shinki, Ryoko ^a   Ogura, Yosuke ^a   Kusakabe, Takehiro G ^b   Satoh, Nori ^c   Sasakura, Yasunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Technology Promotion Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; METAMORPHISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL FATE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; EPENDYMA CELL; GLUTAMATERGIC NERVE CELL; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CORD; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL STEM CELLS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; CHORDATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 79251630568     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09631     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Nielsen, C. Larval and adult brains. Evol. Dev. 7, 483-489 (2005)
2. Ando, R., Hama, H., Yamamoto-Hino, M., Mizuno, H. & Miyawaki, A. An optical marker based on the UV-induced green-to-red photoconversion of a fluorescent protein. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 99, 12651-12656 (2002)
3. Barres, B. A. The mystery and magic of glia: a perspective on their roles in health and disease. Neuron 60, 430-440 (2008).
4. Allen, N. J. & Barres, B. A. Glia -more than just brain glue. Nature 457, 675-677 (2009)
5. Satoh, N. Developmental Biology of Ascidians (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
6. Wada, H., Saiga, H., Satoh, N. & Holland, P. W. Tripartite organization of the ancestral chordate brain and the antiquity of placodes: insight from ascidian Pax-2/5/8, Hox and Otx genes. Development 125, 1113-1122 (1998)
7. Manni, L. et al. Neurogenic and non-neurogenic placodes in ascidians. J. Exp. Zool. B 302, 483-504 (2004)
8. Manni, L., Agnoletto, A., Zaniolo, G. & Burighel, P. Stomodeal and neurohypophysial placodes in Ciona intestinalis: insights into the origin of the pituitary gland. J. Exp. Zool. B 304, 324-339 (2005)
9. Dufour, H. D. et al. Precraniate origin of cranial motoneurons. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 8727-8732 (2006)
10. Kusakabe, T., Yoshida, R., Ikeda, Y. & Tsuda, M. Computational discovery of DNA motifs associated with cell type-specific gene expression in Ciona. Dev. Biol. 276, 563-580 (2004)
11. Tarallo, R.& Sordino, P. Timecourse of programmed cell death in Ciona intestinalis in relation to mitotic activity and MAPK signaling. Dev. Dyn. 230, 251-262 (2004)
12. Katz, M. J. Comparative anatomyof the tunicate tadpole Ciona intestinalis. Biol. Bull. 164, 1-27 (1983)
13. Nicol, D. & Meinertzhagen, I. A. Cell counts and maps in the larval central nervous systemof the ascidianCiona intestinalis (L.). J.Comp.Neurol. 309,415-429(1991)
14. Horie, T., Kusakabe, T. & Tsuda, M. Glutamatergic networks in the Ciona intestinalis larva. J. Comp. Neurol. 508, 249-263 (2008)
15. Horie, T., Nakagawa, M., Sasakura, Y. & Kusakabe, T. G. Cell type and function of neurons in the ascidian nervous system. Dev. Growth Differ. 51, 207-220 (2009)
16. Horie, T., Nakagawa, M., Sasakura, Y., Kusakabe, T. G. & Tsuda, M. Simple motor system of the ascidian larva: neuronal complex comprising putative cholinergic and GABAergic/glycinergic neurons. Zool. Sci. 27, 181-190 (2010)
17. Takamura, K., Egawa, T., Ohnishi, S., Okada, T. & Fukuoka, T. Developmental expressionofascidianneurotransmittersynthesisgenes.I. Cholineacetyltransferase and acetylcholine transporter genes. Dev. Genes Evol. 212, 50-53 (2002)
18. Yoshida, R. et al. Identification of neuron-specific promoters in Ciona intestinalis. Genesis 39, 130-140 (2004)
19. Konno, A. et al. Distribution and structural diversity of cilia in tadpole larvae of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Dev. Biol. 337, 42-62 (2010)
20. Tsuda, M. et al. Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: II. Visual cycle proteins are localized in whole brain including photoreceptor cells of a primitive chordate. Vision Res. 43, 3045-3053 (2003) (Pubitemid 37377616)
21. Moret, F. et al. Regulatory gene expressions in the ascidian ventral sensory vesicle: evolutionary relationships with the vertebrate hypothalamus. Dev. Biol. 277, 567-579 (2005)
22. Imai, K. S., Stolfi, A., Levine, M.& Satou, Y. Gene regulatory networks underlying the compartmentalization of the Ciona central nervous system. Development 136, 285-293 (2009)
23. Gilbert, S. F. Developmental Biology 8th edn (Sinauer Associates, 2006)
24. Johansson, C. F. et al. Identification of a neural stem cell in the adult mammalian central nervous system. Cell 96, 25-34 (1999)
25. Coskun, V. et al. CD1331 neural stem cells in the ependyma of mammalian postnatal forebrain. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105, 1026-1031 (2008)
26. Chojnacki, A. K.,Mak, G. K.& Weiss, S. Identity crisis for adult periventricular neural stem cells: subventricular zone astrocytes, Ependymal cells or both? Nature Rev. Neurosci. 10, 153-163 (2009)
27. Sasakura, Y., Awazu, S., Chiba, S. & Satoh, N. Germ-line transgenesis of the Tc1/ mariner superfamily transposon Minos in Ciona intestinalis. Proc.Natl Acad. Sci.USA 100, 7726-7730 (2003)
28. Joly, J. S. et al. Culture of Ciona intestinalis in closed systems. Dev. Dyn. 236, 1832-1840 (2007)
29. Hozumi, A. et al. Efficient transposition of a single Minos transposon copy in the genome of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis with a transgenic line expressing transposase in the egg. Dev. Dyn. 239, 1076-1088 (2010)
30. Matsuoka, T., Awazu, S., Shoguchi, E., Satoh, N. & Sasakura, Y. Germline transgenesis of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis by electroporation. Genesis 41, 67-72 (2005)
31. Ikuta, T. & Saiga, H. Dynamic change in the expression of developmental genes in the ascidian central nervous system: revisit to the tripartitemodel and the origin of midbrain-hindbrain boundary region. Dev. Biol. 312, 631-643 (2007)
32. Cole, A. G. & Meinertzhagen, I. A. The central nervous systemof the ascidian larva: mitotic history of cells forming the neural tube in late embryonic Ciona intestinalis. Dev. Biol. 271, 239-262 (2004)
33. Satou, Y., Imai, K. S. & Satoh, N. The ascidian Mesp gene specifies heart precursor cells. Development 131, 2533-2541 (2004).