DMRT1: an ancient sexual regulator required for human gonadogenesis

D Zarkower, MW Murphy - Sexual Development, 2022 - karger.com
Transcriptional regulators related to the invertebrate sexual regulators doublesex and mab-3
occur throughout metazoans and control sex in most animal groups. Seven of these DMRT …

Genetic regulation of vertebrate forebrain development by homeobox genes

RF Leung, AM George, EM Roussel, MC Faux… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Forebrain development in vertebrates is regulated by transcription factors encoded by
homeobox, bHLH and forkhead gene families throughout the progressive and overlapping …

Decoding cortical glial cell development

X Li, G Liu, L Yang, Z Li, Z Zhang, Z Xu, Y Cai, H Du… - Neuroscience …, 2021 - Springer
Mouse cortical radial glial cells (RGCs) are primary neural stem cells that give rise to cortical
oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and olfactory bulb (OB) GABAergic interneurons in late …

Transcriptional repression by FEZF2 restricts alternative identities of cortical projection neurons

J Tsyporin, D Tastad, X Ma, A Nehme, T Finn… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Projection neuron subtype identities in the cerebral cortex are established by expressing
pan-cortical and subtype-specific effector genes that execute terminal differentiation …

Single-cell transcriptomics of the early developing mouse cerebral cortex disentangle the spatial and temporal components of neuronal fate acquisition

MX Moreau, Y Saillour, AW Cwetsch, A Pierani… - …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
In the developing cerebral cortex, how progenitors that seemingly display limited diversity
end up producing a vast array of neurons remains a puzzling question. The prevailing model …

Cortical neural stem cell lineage progression is regulated by extrinsic signaling molecule sonic hedgehog

Y Zhang, G Liu, T Guo, XG Liang, H Du, L Yang… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Neural stem cells (NSCs) in the prenatal neocortex progressively generate different
subtypes of glutamatergic projection neurons. Following that, NSCs have a major switch in …

DNA conserved in diverse animals since the Precambrian controls genes for embryonic development

MC Frith, S Ni - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
DNA that controls gene expression (eg enhancers, promoters) has seemed almost never to
be conserved between distantly related animals, like vertebrates and arthropods. This is …

Transcriptional network orchestrating regional patterning of cortical progenitors

AR Ypsilanti, K Pattabiraman… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We uncovered a transcription factor (TF) network that regulates cortical regional patterning
in radial glial stem cells. Screening the expression of hundreds of TFs in the developing …

Comprehensive analysis of DMRT3 as a potential biomarker associated with the immune infiltration in a pan-cancer analysis and validation in lung adenocarcinoma

D Yang, M Liu, J Jiang, Y Luo, Y Wang, H Chen, D Li… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Doublesex and Mab-3 related Transcription Factor 3 (DMRT3) is
associated with the prognosis of some tumors. It is possible to explore the mechanisms and …

Conserved Gsx2/Ind homeodomain monomer versus homodimer DNA binding defines regulatory outcomes in flies and mice

J Salomone, S Qin, TD Fufa, B Cain… - Genes & …, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
How homeodomain proteins gain sufficient specificity to control different cell fates has been
a long-standing problem in developmental biology. The conserved Gsx homeodomain …