Building a lineage from single cells: genetic techniques for cell lineage tracking

MB Woodworth, KM Girskis, CA Walsh - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Resolving lineage relationships between cells in an organism is a fundamental interest of
developmental biology. Furthermore, investigating lineage can drive understanding of …

Recent progress in understanding and manipulating haemoglobin switching for the haemoglobinopathies

DS Vinjamur, DE Bauer… - British journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The major β‐haemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease and β‐thalassaemia, represent the
most common monogenic disorders worldwide and a steadily increasing global disease …

[HTML][HTML] An atlas of cortical arealization identifies dynamic molecular signatures

A Bhaduri, C Sandoval-Espinosa, M Otero-Garcia, I Oh… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The human brain is subdivided into distinct anatomical structures, including the neocortex,
which in turn encompasses dozens of distinct specialized cortical areas. Early …

Subcellular transcriptomes and proteomes of developing axon projections in the cerebral cortex

A Poulopoulos, AJ Murphy, A Ozkan, P Davis, J Hatch… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The development of neural circuits relies on axon projections establishing diverse, yet well-
defined, connections between areas of the nervous system. Each projection is formed by …

[HTML][HTML] Crim1 and Kelch-like 14 exert complementary dual-directional developmental control over segmentally specific corticospinal axon projection targeting

V Sahni, Y Itoh, SJ Shnider, JD Macklis - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
The cerebral cortex executes highly skilled movement, necessitating that it connects
accurately with specific brainstem and spinal motor circuitry. Corticospinal neurons (CSN) …

[HTML][HTML] Histone methylation mediated by NSD1 is required for the establishment and maintenance of neuronal identities

Y Zheng, C Zhao, Q Song, L Xu, B Zhang, G Hu… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Appropriate histone modifications emerge as essential cell fate regulators of neuronal
identities across neocortical areas and layers. Here we showed that NSD1, the …

How the barrel cortex became a working model for developmental plasticity: a historical perspective

RS Erzurumlu, P Gaspar - Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
For half a century now, the barrel cortex of common laboratory rodents has been an
exceptionally useful model for studying the formation of topographically organized maps …

[HTML][HTML] Corticospinal neuron subpopulation-specific developmental genes prospectively indicate mature segmentally specific axon projection targeting

V Sahni, SJ Shnider, D Jabaudon, JHT Song, Y Itoh… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
For precise motor control, distinct subpopulations of corticospinal neurons (CSN) must
extend axons to distinct spinal segments, from proximal targets in the brainstem and cervical …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and Functional Aspects of the Neurodevelopmental Gene NR2F1: From Animal Models to Human Pathology

C Tocco, M Bertacchi, M Studer - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The assembly and maturation of the mammalian brain result from an intricate cascade of
highly coordinated developmental events, such as cell proliferation, migration, and …

[HTML][HTML] Bcl11 transcription factors regulate cortical development and function

R Simon, C Wiegreffe, S Britsch - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Transcription factors regulate multiple processes during brain development and in the adult
brain, from brain patterning to differentiation and maturation of highly specialized neurons as …