コガ　ヨウコ   Yoko Kawase-Koga   古賀　陽子    所属   医学部 医学科（東京女子医科大学病院）    職種   教授・基幹分野長
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	RNAase-III enzyme Dicer maintains signaling pathways for differentiation and survival in mouse cortical neural stem cells.
掲載誌名	正式名：Journal of cell science 略　 称：J Cell Sci ISSNコード：14779137/00219533
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	123(Pt 4),pp.586-94
著者・共著者	Kawase-Koga Yoko, Low Roger, Otaegi Gaizka, Pollock Andrew, Deng Haiteng, Eisenhaber Frank, Maurer-Stroh Sebastian, Sun Tao
発行年月	2010/02
概要	An important function of the RNAase-III enzyme Dicer is to process microRNA precursors into ~22-nucleotide non-coding small RNAs. But little is known about the role of Dicer in mammalian brain formation and neural stem cell (NSC) development. Here we show that Dicer plays a crucial role in controlling mouse cortical NSC development. We found that Dicer function is essential for expanding cortical neural progenitors and NSCs. We have identified a population of Dicer-deficient NSCs that can self-renew, and that display normal karyotype and heterochromatin protein expression levels but show enlarged nuclei. Dicer-deficient NSCs display abnormal differentiation and undergo cell death when mitogens are withdrawn. Dicer deletion affects the levels of many proteins, as revealed by a mass spectrometry proteomic approach. We have found that an increase of anti-survival and/or pro-apoptosis proteins and a decrease of pro-survival and/or anti-apoptosis proteins contribute to the cell death of Dicer-deficient NSCs, implying a general role for Dicer in protecting cells from apoptosis. Our results demonstrate important functions for Dicer in regulating NSC development by maintaining proper signaling pathways related to cell survival and differentiation.
DOI	10.1242/jcs.059659
PMID	20103535