Loss of postnatal quiescence of neural stem cells through mTOR activation upon genetic removal of cysteine string protein-α

Neural stem cells continuously generate newborn neurons that integrate into and modify neural circuitry in the adult hippocampus. The molecular mechanisms that regulate or perturb neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation, however, remain poorly understood. Here, we have found that mouse hippocampal radial glia-like (RGL) neural stem cells express the synaptic cochaperone cysteine string protein-α (CSP-α). Remarkably, in CSP-α knockout mice, RGL stem cells lose quiescence postnatally and enter into a high-proliferation regime that increases the production of neural intermediate progenitor cells, thereby exhausting the hippocampal neural stem cell pool. In cell culture, stem cells in hippocampal neurospheres display alterations in proliferation for which hyperactivation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway is the primary cause of neurogenesis deregulation in the absence of CSP-α. In addition, RGL cells lose quiescence upon specific conditional targeting of CSP-α in adult neural stem cells. Our findings demonstrate an unanticipated cell-autonomic and circuit-independent disruption of postnatal neurogenesis in the absence of CSP-α and highlight a direct or indirect CSP-α/mTOR signaling interaction that may underlie molecular mechanisms of brain dysfunction and neurodegeneration.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:116

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 116(2019), 16 vom: 16. Apr., Seite 8000-8009

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nieto-González, Jose L [VerfasserIn]
Gómez-Sánchez, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
Mavillard, Fabiola [VerfasserIn]
Linares-Clemente, Pedro [VerfasserIn]
Rivero, María C [VerfasserIn]
Valenzuela-Villatoro, Marina [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz-Bravo, José L [VerfasserIn]
Pardal, Ricardo [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Chacón, Rafael [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adult neurogenesis
Adult-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Cysteine string protein
DNAJC5
EC 2.7.1.1
EC 2.7.11.1
HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins
Journal Article
Lysosome
MTOR protein, mouse
Membrane Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Synaptic neurodegeneration
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases

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Date Completed 23.03.2020

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.1817183116

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295487674