YAP/TAZ enhance mammalian embryonic neural stem cell characteristics in a Tead-dependent manner
- Authors
- Han D.[Han D.]; Byun S.-H.[Byun S.-H.]; Park S.[Park S.]; Kim J.[Kim J.]; Kim I.[Kim I.]; Ha S.[Ha S.]; Kwon M.[Kwon M.]; Yoon K.[Yoon K.]
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Citation
- Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, v.458, no.1, pp.110 - 115
- Journal Title
- Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
- Volume
- 458
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 110
- End Page
- 115
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/49742
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.01.077
- Abstract
- Mammalian brain development is regulated by multiple signaling pathways controlling cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. Here we show that YAP/TAZ enhance embryonic neural stem cell characteristics in a cell autonomous fashion using diverse experimental approaches. Introduction of retroviral vectors expressing YAP or TAZ into the mouse embryonic brain induced cell localization in the ventricular zone (VZ), which is the embryonic neural stem cell niche. This change in cell distribution in the cortical layer is due to the increased stemness of infected cells; YAP-expressing cells were colabeled with Sox2, a neural stem cell marker, and YAP/TAZ increased the frequency and size of neurospheres, indicating enhanced self-renewal- and proliferative ability of neural stem cells. These effects appear to be TEA domain family transcription factor (Tead)-dependent; a Tead binding-defective YAP mutant lost the ability to promote neural stem cell characteristics. Consistently, in utero gene transfer of a constitutively active form of Tead2 (Tead2-VP16) recapitulated all the features of YAP/TAZ overexpression, and dominant negative Tead2-EnR resulted in marked cell exit from the VZ toward outer cortical layers. Taken together, these results indicate that the Tead-dependent YAP/TAZ signaling pathway plays important roles in neural stem cell maintenance by enhancing stemness of neural stem cells during mammalian brain development.
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