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Cxxc1 deletion also led to a significant decrease of H3K4me3 enrichment at DMC1-binding sites, which might compromise DSB generation. Taken together, our results show that CXXC1 is essential for proper meiotic crossover formation in mice and suggest that CXXC1-mediated H3K4me3 plays an essential role in meiotic prophase of spermatogenesis and oogenesis. © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.Myosin heavy chain-embryonic (MyHC-emb) is a skeletal muscle specific contractile protein expressed during muscle development. Mutations in MYH3, the gene encoding MyHC-emb leads to Freeman-Sheldon and Sheldon-Hall congenital contracture syndromes. Here, we characterize the role of MyHC-emb during mammalian development using targeted mouse alleles. Germline loss-of MyHC-emb leads to neonatal and postnatal alterations in muscle fiber size, fiber number, fiber type and mis-regulation of genes involved in muscle differentiation. Deletion of Myh3 during embryonic myogenesis leads to depletion of the myogenic progenitor cell pool and increase in the myoblast pool while fetal myogenesis-specific deletion of Myh3 causes depletion of both myogenic progenitor and myoblast pools. We uncover that the non-cell autonomous effect of MyHC-emb on myogenic progenitors and myoblasts are mediated by the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling pathway and exogenous FGF rescues the myogenic differentiation defects upon loss of MyHC-emb function in vitro. Adult Myh3 null mice exhibit scoliosis, a characteristic phenotype exhibited by Freeman-Sheldon and Sheldon-Hall congenital contracture syndrome patients. Thus, we have identified MyHC-emb as a crucial myogenic regulator during development, performing dual cell autonomous and non-cell autonomous functions. © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.How a shape arises from the coordinated behavior of cells is one of the most fascinating questions in developmental biology. In plants, fine spatial and temporal controls of cell proliferation and cell expansion sustain differential growth that defines organ shape and size. At the leaf margin of Arabidopsis thaliana, interplay between auxin transport and transcription factors named CUP SHAPED COTYLEDON (CUCs), which are involved in the establishment of boundary domain identity, were reported to trigger differential growth, leading to serration. Cellular behaviors behind these differential growths remain scarcely described. selleck kinase inhibitor Here, we used 3D and time lapse imaging on young leaves at different stages of development to determine the sequence of cellular events resulting in leaf serrations. In addition, we showed that the transcription factor CUC3 is a negative regulator of cell growth and that its expression dynamics in a small number of cells at the leaf margin is tightly associated with the control of differential growth. © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.Segmentation of the vertebrate hindbrain leads to the formation of rhombomeres, each with a distinct anteroposterior identity. Specialised boundary cells form at segment borders that act as a source or regulator of neuronal differentiation. In zebrafish, there is spatial patterning of neurogenesis in which non-neurogenic zones form at boundaries and segment centres, in part mediated by Fgf20 signalling. To further understand the control of neurogenesis, we have carried out single cell RNA sequencing of the zebrafish hindbrain at three different stages of patterning. Analyses of the data reveal known and novel markers of distinct hindbrain segments, of cell types along the dorsoventral axis, and of the transition of progenitors to neuronal differentiation. We find major shifts in the transcriptome of progenitors and of differentiating cells between the different stages analysed. Supervised clustering with markers of boundary cells and segment centres, together with RNA-seq analysis of Fgf-regulated genes, has revealed new candidate regulators of cell differentiation in the hindbrain. These data provide a valuable resource for functional investigations of the patterning of neurogenesis and the transition of progenitors to neuronal differentiation. © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.How temporal cues combine with spatial inputs to control gene expression during development is poorly understood. Here, we test the hypothesis that the Drosophila transcription factor E93 controls temporal gene expression by regulating chromatin accessibility. Precocious expression of E93 early in wing development reveals that it can simultaneously activate and deactivate different target enhancers. Notably, the precocious patterns of enhancer activity resemble the wild-type patterns that occur later in development, suggesting that expression of E93 alters the competence of enhancers to respond to spatial cues. Genomic profiling reveals that precocious E93 expression is sufficient to regulate chromatin accessibility at a subset of its targets. These accessibility changes mimic those that normally occur later in development, indicating that precocious E93 accelerates the wild-type developmental program. Further, we find that target enhancers that do not respond to precocious E93 in early wings become responsive after a developmental transition, suggesting that parallel temporal pathways work alongside E93. These findings support a model wherein E93 expression functions as an instructive cue that defines a broad window of developmental time through control of chromatin accessibility. © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.Noradrenaline belongs to monoamine system and is involved in cognition and emotional behaviors. Phox2a and Phox2b play critical but non-redundant roles during development of the locus coeruleus (LC), the main noradrenergic (NA) neuron center in mammalian brain. The ubiquitin E3 ligase RNF220 and its cofactor ZC4H2 participate in ventral neural tube patterning by modulating Shh/Gli signaling, and ZC4H2 mutation is associated with intellectual disability through the mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we report that ZC4H2 and RNF220 are required for the development of central NA neurons in mouse brain. Both ZC4H2 and RNF220 are expressed in developing LC-NA neurons. Although properly initiated at embryonic day (E) 10.5, the expression of genes associated with LC-NA neurons are not maintained at the later embryonic stages in mice with deficiency of either RNF220 or ZC4H2. In addition, we show that the RNF220/ZC4H2 complex monoubiquitinates Phox2a/Phox2b, which is required for the full transcriptional activity of Phox2a/Phox2b.
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