Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

The Oligodendrocyte Transcription Factor 2 OLIG2 regulates transcriptional repression during myelinogenesis in rodents

  • Kunkun Zhang,
  • Shaoxuan Chen,
  • Qihua Yang,
  • Shuanghui Guo,
  • Qiang Chen,
  • Zhixiong Liu,
  • Li Li,
  • Mengyun Jiang,
  • Hongda Li,
  • Jin Hu,
  • Xu Pan,
  • Wenbo Deng,
  • Naian Xiao,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Zhan-xiang Wang,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Wei Mo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29068-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Transcription factors regulate gene programs during myelination. Here, the authors show that the Oligodendrocyte Transcription Factor 2 (OLIG2) regulates the differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells into immature oligodendrocytes via SETDB1 during myelination and remyelination in rodents.