Myelination-independent functions of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in health and disease

Y Xiao, T Czopka - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are a population of tissue-resident glial cells found
throughout the CNS, constituting approximately 5% of all CNS cells and persisting from …

Microglia regulation of central nervous system myelin health and regeneration

SA Kent, VE Miron - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Microglia are resident macrophages of the central nervous system that have key functions in
its development, homeostasis and response to damage and infection. Although microglia …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial epigenome–transcriptome co-profiling of mammalian tissues

D Zhang, Y Deng, P Kukanja, E Agirre, M Bartosovic… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging spatial technologies, including spatial transcriptomics and spatial epigenomics,
are becoming powerful tools for profiling of cellular states in the tissue context,,,–. However …

Multimodal chromatin profiling using nanobody-based single-cell CUT&Tag

M Bartosovic, G Castelo-Branco - Nature biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Probing histone modifications at a single-cell level in thousands of cells has been enabled
by technologies such as single-cell CUT&Tag. Here we describe nano-CUT&Tag (nano-CT) …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding the function of oligodendrocytes to brain energy metabolism

KA Nave, E Asadollahi, A Sasmita - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Oligodendrocytes are best known for wrapping myelin, a unique specialization that enables
energy-efficient and fast axonal impulse propagation in white matter tracts and fibers of the …

Myeloid cell replacement is neuroprotective in chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

MMD Mader, A Napole, D Wu, M Atkins, A Scavetti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by demyelination of the
central nervous system (CNS). Autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) shows …

Features, fates, and functions of oligodendrocyte precursor cells

RA Hill, A Nishiyama… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are a central nervous system resident population of
glia with a distinct molecular identity and an ever-increasing list of functions. OPCs generate …

Tissue-specific enhancer–gene maps from multimodal single-cell data identify causal disease alleles

S Sakaue, K Weinand, S Isaac, KK Dey, K Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Translating genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci into causal variants and genes
requires accurate cell-type-specific enhancer–gene maps from disease-relevant tissues …

Myelin insulation as a risk factor for axonal degeneration in autoimmune demyelinating disease

E Schäffner, M Bosch-Queralt, JM Edgar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Axonal degeneration determines the clinical outcome of multiple sclerosis and is thought to
result from exposure of denuded axons to immune-mediated damage. Therefore, myelin is …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptomics of human traumatic brain injury reveals activation of endogenous retroviruses in oligodendroglia

R Garza, Y Sharma, DAM Atacho, A Thiruvalluvan… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of chronic brain impairment and results in a
robust, but poorly understood, neuroinflammatory response that contributes to the long-term …