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Akiko Nakanishi
Author with expertise in Adult Neurogenesis and Brain Development
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Foxp- and Skor-family proteins control differentiation of Purkinje cells from Ptf1a and Neurogenin1-expressing progenitors in zebrafish

Tsubasa Itoh et al.Apr 6, 2023
ABSTRACT Cerebellar neurons such as Purkinje cells (PCs) and granule cells (GCs) are differentiated from neural progenitors expressing proneural genes. Zebrafish mutants of proneural genes ptf1a and neurogenin1 showed a reduction or loss of PCs, GABAergic interneurons (INs), and reduced expression of GC progenitor genes atoh1a/b/c . Lineage tracing revealed that the ptf1a -expressing progenitors gave rise to PCs, INs, and a part of GCs in zebrafish. These data indicate that the ptf1a/neurognin1 -expressing neural progenitors can generate a variety of cerebellar neurons. In this study, we found that genes encoding transcriptional regulators Foxp1b and Foxp4, as well as Skor1b and Skor2, which are reportedly expressed in PCs, were not expressed in ptf1a ; neurogenin1 mutants. foxp1b;foxp4 mutants showed a strong reduction in PCs, while skor1b;skor2 mutants completely lacked PCs but instead displayed an increase in immature GCs. Misexpression of skor2 in GC progenitors expressing atoh1c suppressed GC fate. These data indicate that Foxp1b/4 and Skor1b/2 function as key transcriptional regulators in the initial step of PC differentiation from ptf1a/neurogenin1 -expressing neural progenitors, while Skor1b and Skor2 control PC differentiation by suppressing their differentiation into GCs.
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