Hoxa2 Selects Barrelette Neuron Identity and Connectivity in the Mouse Somatosensory Brainstem

Cell Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 783-797

  Bechara, Ahmad ^a   Laumonnerie, Christophe ^a,c   Vilain, Nathalie ^a   Kratochwil, Claudius F ^a,d   Cankovic, Vanja ^a   Maiorano, Nicola A ^a   Kirschmann, Moritz A ^a   Ducret, Sebastien ^a   Rijli, Filippo M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HOXA2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXA2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; AXON; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; NEURONS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84945558030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.09.031     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Beier K.T., Samson M.E., Matsuda T., Cepko C.L. Conditional expression of the TVA receptor allows clonal analysis of descendents from Cre-expressing progenitor cells. Dev. Biol. 2011, 353:309-320.
2. da Silva S., Hasegawa H., Scott A., Zhou X., Wagner A.K., Han B.X., Wang F. Proper formation of whisker barrelettes requires periphery-derived Smad4-dependent TGF-beta signaling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2011, 108:3395-3400.
3. Dasen J.S., Jessell T.M. Hox networks and the origins of motor neuron diversity. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 2009, 88:169-200.
4. De la Rossa A., Bellone C., Golding B., Vitali I., Moss J., Toni N., Lüscher C., Jabaudon D. In vivo reprogramming of circuit connectivity in postmitotic neocortical neurons. Nat. Neurosci. 2013, 16:193-200.
5. Di Meglio T., Kratochwil C.F., Vilain N., Loche A., Vitobello A., Yonehara K., Hrycaj S.M., Roska B., Peters A.H., Eichmann A., et al. Ezh2 orchestrates topographic migration and connectivity of mouse precerebellar neurons. Science 2013, 339:204-207.
6. Ding Y.Q., Yin J., Xu H.M., Jacquin M.F., Chen Z.F. Formation of whisker-related principal sensory nucleus-based lemniscal pathway requires a paired homeodomain transcription factor, Drg11. J. Neurosci. 2003, 23:7246-7254.
7. Erzurumlu R.S., Gaspar P. Development and critical period plasticity of the barrel cortex. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2012, 35:1540-1553.
8. Erzurumlu R.S., Murakami Y., Rijli F.M. Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstem. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2010, 11:252-263.
9. Frasch M., Chen X., Lufkin T. Evolutionary-conserved enhancers direct region-specific expression of the murine Hoxa-1 and Hoxa-2 loci in both mice and Drosophila. Development 1995, 121:957-974.
10. Golden M.G., Dasen J.S. Polycomb repressive complex 1 activities determine the columnar organization of motor neurons. Genes Dev. 2012, 26:2236-2250.
11. Hippenmeyer S., Vrieseling E., Sigrist M., Portmann T., Laengle C., Ladle D.R., Arber S. A developmental switch in the response of DRG neurons to ETS transcription factor signaling. PLoS Biol. 2005, 3:e159.
12. Hodge L.K., Klassen M.P., Han B.X., Yiu G., Hurrell J., Howell A., Rousseau G., Lemaigre F., Tessier-Lavigne M., Wang F. Retrograde BMP signaling regulates trigeminal sensory neuron identities and the formation of precise face maps. Neuron 2007, 55:572-586.
13. Jensen-Smith H., Gray B., Muirhead K., Ohlsson-Wilhelm B., Fritzsch B. Long-distance three-color neuronal tracing in fixed tissue using NeuroVue dyes. Immunol. Invest. 2007, 36:763-789.
14. Lee L.J., Lo F.S., Erzurumlu R.S. NMDA receptor-dependent regulation of axonal and dendritic branching. J. Neurosci. 2005, 25:2304-2311.
15. Ma P.M., Woolsey T.A. Cytoarchitectonic correlates of the vibrissae in the medullary trigeminal complex of the mouse. Brain Res. 1984, 306:374-379.
16. Margueron R., Reinberg D. The Polycomb complex PRC2 and its mark in life. Nature 2011, 469:343-349.
17. Matsui A., Tran M., Yoshida A.C., Kikuchi S.S., U M., Ogawa M., Shimogori T. BTBD3 controls dendrite orientation toward active axons in mammalian neocortex. Science 2013, 342:1114-1118.
18. Miguez A., Ducret S., Di Meglio T., Parras C., Hmidan H., Haton C., Sekizar S., Mannioui A., Vidal M., Kerever A., et al. Opposing roles for Hoxa2 and Hoxb2 in hindbrain oligodendrocyte patterning. J. Neurosci. 2012, 32:17172-17185.
19. O'Leary D.D., Ruff N.L., Dyck R.H. Development, critical period plasticity, and adult reorganizations of mammalian somatosensory systems. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 1994, 4:535-544.
20. O'Leary D.D., Chou S.J., Sahara S. Area patterning of the mammalian cortex. Neuron 2007, 56:252-269.
21. Osakada F., Callaway E.M. Design and generation of recombinant rabies virus vectors. Nat. Protoc. 2013, 8:1583-1601.
22. Osakada F., Mori T., Cetin A.H., Marshel J.H., Virgen B., Callaway E.M. New rabies virus variants for monitoring and manipulating activity and gene expression in defined neural circuits. Neuron 2011, 71:617-631.
23. Oury F., Murakami Y., Renaud J.S., Pasqualetti M., Charnay P., Ren S.Y., Rijli F.M. Hoxa2- and rhombomere-dependent development of the mouse facial somatosensory map. Science 2006, 313:1408-1413.
24. Ozeki M., Tabata Y. Promoted growth of murine hair follicles through controlled release of basic fibroblast growth factor. Tissue Eng. 2002, 8:359-366.
25. Pasqualetti M., Ren S.Y., Poulet M., LeMeur M., Dierich A., Rijli F.M. A Hoxa2 knockin allele that expresses EGFP upon conditional Cre-mediated recombination. Genesis 2002, 32:109-111.
26. Philippidou P., Dasen J.S. Hox genes: choreographers in neural development, architects of circuit organization. Neuron 2013, 80:12-34.
27. Pouchelon G., Frangeul L., Rijli F.M., Jabaudon D. Patterning of pre-thalamic somatosensory pathways. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2012, 35:1533-1539.
28. Puschendorf M., Terranova R., Boutsma E., Mao X., Isono K., Brykczynska U., Kolb C., Otte A.P., Koseki H., Orkin S.H., et al. PRC1 and Suv39h specify parental asymmetry at constitutive heterochromatin in early mouse embryos. Nat. Genet. 2008, 40:411-420.
29. Ren S.Y., Angrand P.O., Rijli F.M. Targeted insertion results in a rhombomere 2-specific Hoxa2 knockdown and ectopic activation of Hoxa1 expression. Dev. Dyn. 2002, 225:305-315.
30. Rouaux C., Arlotta P. Direct lineage reprogramming of post-mitotic callosal neurons into corticofugal neurons in vivo. Nat. Cell Biol. 2013, 15:214-221.
31. Seidler B., Schmidt A., Mayr U., Nakhai H., Schmid R.M., Schneider G., Saur D. A Cre-loxP-based mouse model for conditional somatic gene expression and knockdown in vivo by using avian retroviral vectors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2008, 105:10137-10142.
32. Soriano P. Generalized lacZ expression with the ROSA26 Cre reporter strain. Nat. Genet. 1999, 21:70-71.
33. Sur M., Rubenstein J.L. Patterning and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. Science 2005, 310:805-810.
34. Sürmeli G., Akay T., Ippolito G.C., Tucker P.W., Jessell T.M. Patterns of spinal sensory-motor connectivity prescribed by a dorsoventral positional template. Cell 2011, 147:653-665.
35. Takeuchi Y., Asano H., Katayama Y., Muragaki Y., Imoto K., Miyata M. Large-scale somatotopic refinement via functional synapse elimination in the sensory thalamus of developing mice. J. Neurosci. 2014, 34:1258-1270.
36. Van Der Loos H. Barreloids in mouse somatosensory thalamus. Neurosci. Lett. 1976, 2:1-6.
37. Van der Loos H., Dörfl J., Welker E. Variation in pattern of mystacial vibrissae in mice. A quantitative study of ICR stock and several inbred strains. J. Hered. 1984, 75:326-336.
38. Voiculescu O., Charnay P., Schneider-Maunoury S. Expression pattern of a Krox-20/Cre knock-in allele in the developing hindbrain, bones, and peripheral nervous system. Genesis 2000, 26:123-126.
39. Waite P.M., Cragg B.G. The peripheral and central changes resulting from cutting or crushing the afferent nerve supply to the whiskers. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 1982, 214:191-211.
40. Woolsey T.A., Van der Loos H. The structural organization of layer IV in the somatosensory region (SI) of mouse cerebral cortex. The description of a cortical field composed of discrete cytoarchitectonic units. Brain Res. 1970, 17:205-242.