Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

LSD1 co-repressor Rcor2 orchestrates neurogenesis in the developing mouse brain

  • Yixuan Wang,
  • Qian Wu,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Chenfei Wang,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Wenyu Ding,
  • Wensu Liu,
  • Ye Bai,
  • Yuanyuan Yang,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Shaorong Gao,
  • Xiaoqun Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10481
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Epigenetic regulation plays a key role in cortical development. Here the authors show that Rcor2, a co-repressor of the histone demethylase LSD1/KDM1A complex, regulates neural progenitor cell proliferation and cortical neurogenesis by repressing sonic hedgehog signaling.