Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

PRMT5-mediated regulation of developmental myelination

  • Antonella Scaglione,
  • Julia Patzig,
  • Jialiang Liang,
  • Rebecca Frawley,
  • Jabez Bok,
  • Angeliki Mela,
  • Camila Yattah,
  • Jingxian Zhang,
  • Shun Xie Teo,
  • Ting Zhou,
  • Shuibing Chen,
  • Emily Bernstein,
  • Peter Canoll,
  • Ernesto Guccione,
  • Patrizia Casaccia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04863-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Myelin-forming cells derive from oligodendrocyte progenitors. Here the authors identify histone arginine methyl-transferase PRMT5 as critical for developmental myelination by modulating the cross-talk between histone arginine methylation and lysine acetylation, to favor differentiation.