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Genetic control of cellular morphogenesis in Müller glia.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Charlton-Perkins, Mark 
Almeida, Alexandra D 

Abstract

Cell shape is critical for the proper function of every cell in every tissue in the body. This is especially true for the highly morphologically diverse neural and glia cells of the central nervous system. The molecular processes by which these, or indeed any, cells gain their particular cell-specific morphology remain largely unexplored. To identify the genes involved in the morphogenesis of the principal glial cell type in the vertebrate retina, the Müller glia (MG), we used genomic and CRISPR based strategies in zebrafish (Danio rerio). We identified 41 genes involved in various aspects of MG cell morphogenesis and revealed a striking concordance between the sequential steps of anatomical feature addition and the expression of cohorts of functionally related genes that regulate these steps. We noted that the many of the genes preferentially expressed in zebrafish MG showed conservation in glia across species suggesting evolutionarily conserved glial developmental pathways.

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Keywords

CRISPR, Müller glia, morphogenesis, transcriptome, zebrafish, Animals, Animals, Genetically Modified, Cell Differentiation, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, Ependymoglial Cells, Gene Expression Profiling, Morphogenesis, Neurogenesis, Neuroglia, Transcriptome, Zebrafish

Journal Title

Glia

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Journal ISSN

0894-1491
1098-1136

Volume Title

67

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (100329/Z/12/Z)
The work was supported by a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2015-707668) to MCP, a JG Graves Medical Research Fellowship and Wellcome Trust Seed Award (210152/Z/18/Z) to RBM and an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (SIA 100329/Z/12/Z) to WAH.