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Mirana Ramialison

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PubMed2026

The DLX/Notch axis is necessary for spatiotemporal regulation of neural cell fate.

Neuronal-glial cell fate switch during forebrain development is highly regulated. DLX transcription factors are necessary for promoting GABAergic interneuron differentiation and migration but the mechanisms for concomitant repression of glial fate in neural progenitors remain elusive. Here, the DLX2 regulatory network dynamic in the developing ventral telencephalon is characterised using a multi-omic approach at single-cell resolution, including single-cell whole genome spatial transcriptomics. We identify a secondary proliferative zone in the ventral subventricular zone and spatiotemporal-context dependent Notch pathway repression by DLX2 in maintaining progenitor populations and facilitating neural differentiation. We find that DLX2 controls cell fate determination by directly repressing Notch signalling genes as well as glial fate-promoting transcription factors, thereby inhibiting early adoption of oligodendroglial differentiation during neurogenesis. Here, we show that temporal cell fate switch is mediated by DLX2 via a multilayer gene regulatory network, redefining current understanding of neuronal-glial cell specification mechanisms in the developing telencephalon.

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PubMed2003

MEPD: a Medaka gene expression pattern database.

The Medaka Expression Pattern Database (MEPD) stores and integrates information of gene expression during embryonic development of the small freshwater fish Medaka (Oryzias latipes). Expression patterns of genes identified by ESTs are documented by images and by descriptions through parameters such as staining intensity, category and comments and through a comprehensive, hierarchically organized dictionary of anatomical terms. Sequences of the ESTs are available and searchable through BLAST. ESTs in the database are clustered upon entry and have been blasted against public data-bases. The BLAST results are updated regularly, stored within the database and searchable. The MEPD is a project within the Medaka Genome Initiative (MGI) and entries will be interconnected to integrated genomic map databases. MEPD is accessible through the WWW at http://medaka.dsp.jst.go.jp/MEPD.

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PubMed2002

Expression profiling in mouse fetal thymus reveals clusters of coordinately expressed genes that mark individual stages of T-cell ontogeny.

To search for genes that participate in regulatory networks sustaining mouse embryonic T-cell development, we have performed expression profiling using nylon macroarrays. Labeled samples representative of individual developmental stages were utilized, taking advantage of cell homogeneity during early thymus ontogeny. cDNAs revealing differential expression were further selected using labeled samples derived from lymphoid versus non-lymphoid tissues, and from mutant thymi exhibiting T-cell developmental defects. We thus identified clusters of coexpressed genes during T-cell embryogenesis and characterized their sequences through bioinformatics. We compare our results with those from other profiling analyses in the immune system, and discuss their implications for the definition of genes whose products are involved in T-cell development.

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