[HTML][HTML] SYNGAP1 deficiency disrupts synaptic neoteny in xenotransplanted human cortical neurons in vivo

B Vermaercke, R Iwata, K Wierda, L Boubakar… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Human brain ontogeny is characterized by a considerably prolonged neotenic development
of cortical neurons and circuits. Neoteny is thought to be essential for the acquisition of …

Forebrain Eml1 depletion reveals early centrosomal dysfunction causing subcortical heterotopia

D Zaidi, K Chinnappa, BN Yigit, V Viola… - Journal of Cell …, 2024 - rupress.org
Subcortical heterotopia is a cortical malformation associated with epilepsy, intellectual
disability, and an excessive number of cortical neurons in the white matter. Echinoderm …

Massively parallel in vivo Perturb-seq reveals cell-type-specific transcriptional networks in cortical development

X Zheng, B Wu, Y Liu, SK Simmons, K Kim, GS Clarke… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Leveraging AAVs' versatile tropism and labeling capacity, we expanded the scale of in vivo
CRISPR screening with single-cell transcriptomic phenotyping across embryonic to adult …

Subcellular mRNA localization and local translation of Arhgap11a in radial glial progenitors regulates cortical development

LJ Pilaz, J Liu, K Joshi, Y Tsunekawa, CM Musso… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Summary mRNA localization and local translation enable exquisite spatial and temporal
control of gene expression, particularly in polarized, elongated cells. These features are …

SRSF10 regulates proliferation of neural progenitor cells and affects neurogenesis in developing mouse neocortex

J Li, H Jiang, Y Mu, Z Wei, A Ma, M Sun, J Zhao, C Zhu… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing plays critical roles in brain development. SRSF10 is a
splicing factor highly expressed in central nervous system and plays important roles in …

Comparative single-cell multiome identifies evolutionary changes in neural progenitor cells during primate brain development

Y Liu, X Luo, Y Sun, K Chen, T Hu, B You, J Xu… - Developmental Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Understanding the cellular and genetic mechanisms driving human-specific features of
cortical development remains a challenge. We generated a cell-type resolved atlas of …

Histone-binding protein RBBP4 is necessary to promote neurogenesis in the developing mouse neocortical progenitors

SK Dhanya, K Kalia, S Mohanty, T Azam… - eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
Chromatin regulation plays a crucial role in neocortical neurogenesis, and mutations in
chromatin modifiers are linked to neurodevelopmental disorders. RBBP4 is a core subunit of …

A data-driven approach to morphogenesis under structural instability

Y Zhao, Z Xu - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2024 - cell.com
Morphological development into evolutionary patterns under structural instability is
ubiquitous in living systems and often of vital importance for engineering structures. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering heterogeneous populations of migrating cells based on the computational assessment of their dynamic properties

A Ferreira, C Bressan, SV Hardy, A Saghatelyan - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Neuronal migration is a highly dynamic process, and multiple cell movement metrics can be
extracted from time-lapse imaging datasets. However, these parameters alone are often …

Live Imaging of Migrating Neurons and Glial Progenitors Visualized by in Utero Electroporation

M Nishikawa, K Nagata, H Tabata - Cerebral Cortex Development …, 2024 - Springer
During cortical development, both neurons and glial cells are generated in the germinal
zone near the lateral ventricle, migrate in the correct direction, and settle in their appropriate …