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Lgr5 Marks Post-Mitotic, Lineage Restricted Cerebellar Granule Neurons during Postnatal Development.

PloS one | 2014

Wnt signaling regulates self-renewal and fate commitment of stem and progenitor cells in development and homeostasis. Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled receptor 5 (Lgr5) is a co-receptor for Wnt signaling that marks highly proliferative stem and progenitor cells in many epithelial tissue types. Wnt signaling instructs neural developmental and homeostatic processes; however, Lgr5 expression in the developing and adult brain has not been characterized. Here we report that Lgr5 is expressed in the postnatal cerebellum during the maturation and synaptogenesis of cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs), processes controlled by Wnt signaling. Using a transgenic reporter mouse for in vivo Lgr5 expression analysis and lineage tracing, we reveal that Lgr5 specifically identified CGNs and was restricted temporally to the CGN maturation phase within the internal granule layer, but absent in the adult brain. Cells marked by Lgr5 were lineage restricted, post-mitotic and long-lived. The ligand for Lgr5, R-spondin, was secreted in a paracrine fashion that evolved during the maturation of CGNs, which coincided with the Lgr5 expression pattern. Our findings provide potential new insight into the critical regulation of Wnt signaling in the developing cerebellum and support a novel role for Lgr5 in the regulation of post-mitotic cells.

Pubmed ID: 25493560 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA169117
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F30 CA165857
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA159859
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 CA177558
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K08 CA155764
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA122759
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA171652
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS089272
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS087913
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F30 CA183510
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 GM007250
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA154130

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