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Development of the nervous system - I. Raghav Rajan Bio 334 – Neurobiology I August 8 th 2013. Early embryonic development. Development of the nervous system begins after gastrulation Nervous system and skin develop from ectoderm. Stages of neural development. Neural induction - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Development of the nervous system - I
Raghav RajanBio 334 – Neurobiology I
August 8th 2013
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Early embryonic development
● Development of the nervous system begins after gastrulation
● Nervous system and skin develop from ectoderm
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Stages of neural development
● Neural induction● Birth and differentiation of neurons● Polarity, segmentation of nervous system● Migration of neurons to their final position● Growth of axons and axon guidance to their post-
synaptic targets● Changes in synapses
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Model systems for studying development
C-elegans
Drosophila
Xenopus
Chicken
Zebra fish
Mouse
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Hydra (diploblast)– neurons develop from a precursor in the epidermis – interstitial cell
● Molecular mechanisms poorly understood
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C-elegans – development of nervous system
● ~1000 cells● 302 neurons and 56 glial
cells
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C-elegans
● Endoderm and mesoderm precursors migrate inward – end of gastrulation
● Proliferation phase● Ventral indentation
– start of morphogenesis – 4 molts
● Neurons form and migrate inward
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Drosophila – neurons generated from ventrolateral part of embryo (ectoderm)
● Cellularisation results in cellular blastoderm
● Ventral furrow marks start of gastrulation
● Mesoderm invagination● Ventral midline – future
site of neurogenesis
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Drosophila
● Continuation of neurogenic region into anterior region gives rise to brain
● Neuroblasts delaminate● Divide into GMC and Nb● GMC gives rise to neurons
or glia● Larval nervous system● Morphogenesis –
additional neurogenesis
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Frog
● Blastopore – small invagination – point of initiation of gastrulation
● First cells to invaginate occur at the dorsal side of blastopore – opposite to sperm entry point
● Spemann's organiser● Involuting marginal zone –
first cells form head, last form tail (mesoderm)
● Neural plate
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Frog
● Neural plate folds over to form neural tube
● Gives rise to neurons and glia of CNS
● Neural crest – junction between neural tube and ectoderm
● Unique to vertebrates – gives rise to PNS
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Zebra fish – small differences in gastrulation due to differences in amount of
yolk● Epiboly● 50% epiboly
marks start of gastrulation at future dorsal margin – shield
● Mesoderm delaminates, moves inside
● Neural plate forms
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Chick – “yolky” egg
● Blastodisc floating on yolk
● No epiboly● Mesoderm
invagination in this disc through blastopore-like primitive streak
● Hensen's node – posterior end of primitive streak – like dorsal lip of blastopore
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Human – no yolk
● Inner cell mass of blastula gives rise to embryo
● Primitive streak – line of cells migrating into blastocoel to form mesoderm
● Overlying ectoderm induced to form neural tube
● Tube rolls up and forms brain and spinal cord
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Involuting mesoderm “induces” overlying ectoderm to form neural tissue
● Culture each part of embryo separately to determine time of fate determination
● Frog● Hans Spemann
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Spemann and Mangold identify Spemann organizer
● Dorsal lip of blastopore can induce formation of second body axis including second brain and spinal cord
● Host and donor cells contribute to new axis
● Dorsal lip – Spemann organizer – not only neural inducer but also organizes body axis
● Who organizes Spemann organizer?
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Spemann organizer organized by Nieuwkoop center
● Nieuwkoop found that mesoderm is induced at the junction of animal cap (ectoderm) and vegetal cap (endoderm)
● Dorsal-most part of vegetal pole can induce Spemann organizer
● Possibly β-catenin● But, again, how is this
setup – sperm entry, cortical rotations, gray crescent, etc...
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Induction of neural tissue – studying it with the isolated animal cap assay
● Do candidate factors induce neural tissue directly or indirectly?
● Assay looked for increased expression of neural genes without increased expression of mesoderm genes
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Noggin is a secreted molecule that can induce neural tissue
● Ventralized and hyperdorsalized embryos
● cDNA from dorsal lip (Spemann organiser) was divided into smaller and smaller collections to rescue UV treated embryos
● Noggin mRNA expressed in gastrulating embryos by cells of dorsal lip of the blastopore
● Richard Hartland's group
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Chordin identified as another molecule secreted by organizer
● DeRobertis' group● Identify genes that were
expressed in the organizer region
● Chordin a secreted molecule expressed when neural induction occurs
● Overexpressin results in formation of second axis just like noggin
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Neural fate is the default for endodermal cells
● Noggin, chordin – not clear what they were doing
● Melton's lab● Identified follistatin as a potential
neural inducer● Known to inhibit activin, a TGF-B
family member● Was actually studying the role of
follistatin in mesoderm induction● Truncated activin● No mesoderm● Also lots of neural tissue despite
the absence of mesoderm!!
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More experiments to show that neural fate is default for animal cap cells
● Dissociated animal cap cells form neural tissue
● Follistatin also expressed in the organizer region at the time of neural induction
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Vertebrate embryos are inverted insect embryos!
● sog (like chordin) inhibits dpp (like BMP4) in Drosophila to induce neural tissue – only on the ventral side
● Different neural inducers antagonize BMP signaling
● BMP4 inhibits neural tissue formation in animal caps (dissociated animal cells too) – even with noggin, chordin, follistatin
● Antisense BMP4 RNA – neural tissue forms without addition of inducers
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Wnt and BMP signaling pathways – two that are important for development
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All three neural inducers block BMP signalling in a similar fashion
● Noggin and chordin bind to BMP4 directly
● Follistatin binds to related BMP7 and activin
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Inhibiting BMP signaling – not enough in mammals
● Deletion of noggin and chordin affect head formation and cerebral hemisphere formation
● Some neural tissue does form
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Current understanding of neural induction
Stern CD Development (2008): Old problem, new findings, yet more questions
Stern CD Development (2008): Old problem, new findings, yet more questions
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Next step – formation of neuroblasts
● Drosophila, pro-neural clusters
● achaete-scute complex genes expressed by clusters of proneural cells before delamination
● One neuroblast develops from each cluster
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Achaete-scute complex genes are required for formation of the one neuroblast
● Only one of the proneural cells becomes a neuroblast in a normal fly
● Flies mutant for proneural genes like achaete scute – neuroblasts don't form
● Flies mutant for notch or delta – multiple neuroblasts form
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These genes are basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factors
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Delaminating neuroblast inhibits neighbouring cells from becoming a
neuroblast● Ablation of a
delaminating neuroblast makes the neighbouring ectodermal cell become a neuroblast
● Neuroblast inhibits neighbouring cells from becoming neuroblasts
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Notch signaling pathway is involved in lateral inhibition
Fortini ME Developmental Cell (2009) The Notch pathway: Core signaling and its posttranslational regulation