FoxP1 marks medium spiny neurons from precursors to maturity and is required for their differentiation

Precious, S. V., Kelly, C. M., Reddington, A. E., Vinh, N. N., Stickland, R. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3398-4272, Pekarik, V., Scherf, C., Jeyasingham, R., Glasbey, J., Holeiter, M., Jones, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3007-4612, Taylor, M. V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1351-939X and Rosser, A. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4716-4753 2016. FoxP1 marks medium spiny neurons from precursors to maturity and is required for their differentiation. Experimental Neurology 282 , pp. 9-18. 10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.05.002

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Abstract

Identifying the steps involved in striatal development is important both for understanding the striatum in health and disease, and for generating protocols to differentiate striatal neurons for regenerative medicine. The most prominent neuronal subtype in the adult striatum is the medium spiny projection neuron (MSN), which constitutes more than 85% of all striatal neurons and classically expresses DARPP-32. Through a microarray study of genes expressed in the whole ganglionic eminence (WGE: the developing striatum) in the mouse, we identified the gene encoding the transcription factor Forkhead box protein P1 (FoxP1) as the most highly up-regulated gene, thus providing unbiased evidence for the association of FoxP1 with MSN development. We also describe the expression of FoxP1 in the human fetal brain over equivalent gestational stages. FoxP1 expression persisted through into adulthood in the mouse brain, where it co-localised with all striatal DARPP-32 positive projection neurons and a small population of DARPP-32 negative cells. There was no co-localisation of FoxP1 with any interneuron markers. FoxP1 was detectable in primary fetal striatal cells following dissection, culture, and transplantation into the adult lesioned striatum, demonstrating its utility as an MSN marker for transplantation studies. Furthermore, DARPP-32 expression was absent from FoxP1 knock-out mouse WGE differentiated in vitro, suggesting that FoxP1 is important for the development of DARPP-32-positive MSNs. In summary, we show that FoxP1 labels MSN precursors prior to the expression of DARPP-32 during normal development, and in addition suggest that FoxP1 labels a sub-population of MSNs that are not co-labelled by DARPP-32. We demonstrate the utility of FoxP1 to label MSNs in vitro and following neural transplantation, and show that FoxP1 is required for DARPP-32 positive MSN differentiation in vitro.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	DARPP-32, dopamine and cyclic adenosine 3′, 5′- monophosphate-regulated phosphoprotein, 32 kDa; FoxP1, Forkhead box protein P1; HD, Huntington's disease; MSN, medium spiny projection neuron
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International license.
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0014-4886
Funders:	Medical Research Council
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 May 2016
Date of Acceptance:	1 May 2016
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2023 18:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/90826

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