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Injured adult neurons regress to an embryonic transcriptional growth state

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  • Gunnar H. D. Poplawski

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Riki Kawaguchi

    (University of California Los Angeles
    University of California Los Angeles)

  • Erna Niekerk

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Paul Lu

    (University of California San Diego
    Veterans Administration Medical Center)

  • Neil Mehta

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Philip Canete

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Richard Lie

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Ioannis Dragatsis

    (University of Tennessee)

  • Jessica M. Meves

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Binhai Zheng

    (University of California San Diego
    Veterans Administration Medical Center)

  • Giovanni Coppola

    (University of California Los Angeles
    University of California Los Angeles)

  • Mark H. Tuszynski

    (University of California San Diego
    Veterans Administration Medical Center)

Abstract

Grafts of spinal-cord-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) enable the robust regeneration of corticospinal axons and restore forelimb function after spinal cord injury1; however, the molecular mechanisms that underlie this regeneration are unknown. Here we perform translational profiling specifically of corticospinal tract (CST) motor neurons in mice, to identify their ‘regenerative transcriptome’ after spinal cord injury and NPC grafting. Notably, both injury alone and injury combined with NPC grafts elicit virtually identical early transcriptomic responses in host CST neurons. However, in mice with injury alone this regenerative transcriptome is downregulated after two weeks, whereas in NPC-grafted mice this transcriptome is sustained. The regenerative transcriptome represents a reversion to an embryonic transcriptional state of the CST neuron. The huntingtin gene (Htt) is a central hub in the regeneration transcriptome; deletion of Htt significantly attenuates regeneration, which shows that Htt has a key role in neural plasticity after injury.

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  • Gunnar H. D. Poplawski & Riki Kawaguchi & Erna Niekerk & Paul Lu & Neil Mehta & Philip Canete & Richard Lie & Ioannis Dragatsis & Jessica M. Meves & Binhai Zheng & Giovanni Coppola & Mark H. Tuszynski, 2020. "Injured adult neurons regress to an embryonic transcriptional growth state," Nature, Nature, vol. 581(7806), pages 77-82, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:581:y:2020:i:7806:d:10.1038_s41586-020-2200-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2200-5
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