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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

Early Dendritic Morphogenesis of Adult-Born Dentate Granule Cells Is Regulated by FHL2.

Afrinash Ahamad, Jia Wang, Shaoyu Ge, Gregory W Kirschen

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Afrinash AhamadGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States.
Jia WangBiomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Shaoyu GeDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States.
Gregory W KirschenMedical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States.
Stony Brook University · USPeking University · CNStony Brook School · US

Funding

Circuitry mechanisms underlying new neuron development in adult and epileptic brainR01NS089770 · NINDS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI GE, SHAOYU, HSIEH, JENNY · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
To explore the development and function of clonally-related adult-born dentate grR21AG046875 · NIA · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI GE, SHAOYU · 2014 to 2015
$429k
Studying enriched environment-induced hippocampal neurogenesis using virtual reality exposureF30MH110103 · NIMH · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI KIRSCHEN, GREGORY WOHL · 2016 to 2018
$103k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG046875NIMH NIH HHS F30 MH110103NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089770
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dentate granule cells (DGCs), the progeny of neural stem cells (NSCs) in the sub-granular zone of the dentate gyrus (DG), must develop and functionally integrate with the mature cohort of neurons in order to maintain critical hippocampal functions throughout adulthood. Dysregulation in the continuum of DGC development can result in aberrant morphology and disrupted functional maturation, impairing neuroplasticity of the network. Yet, the molecular underpinnings of the signaling involved in adult-born DGC maturation including dendritic growth, which correlates with functional integration, remains incompletely understood. Given the high metabolic activity in the dentate gyrus (DG) required to achieve continuous neurogenesis, we investigated the potential regulatory role of a cellular metabolism-linked gene recently implicated in NSC cycling and neuroblast migration, called Four and a half LIM domain 2 (FHL2). The FHL2 protein modulates numerous pathways related to proliferation, migration, survival and cytoskeletal rearrangement in peripheral tissues, interacting with the machinery of the sphingosine-1-phosphate pathway, also known to be highly active especially in the hippocampus. Yet, the potential relevance of FHL2 to adult-born DGC development remains unknown. To elucidate the role of FHL2 in DGC development in the adult brain, we first confirmed the endogenous expression of FHL2 in NSCs and new granule cells within the DG, then engineered viral vectors for genetic manipulation experiments, investigating morphological changes in early stages of DGC development. Overexpression of FHL2 during early DGC development resulted in marked sprouting and branching of dendrites, while silencing of FHL2 increased dendritic length. Together, these findings suggest a novel role of FHL2 in adult-born DGC morphological maturation, which may open up a new line of investigation regarding the relevance of this gene in physiology and pathologies of the hippocampus such as mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE).

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dendritic growthdentate gyrusfour and a half LIM domain protein 2hippocampal neurogenesissphingosine 1 phosphate (S1P)

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PMID32256309
PMCPMC7090230
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