Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Extracellular LGALS3BP regulates neural progenitor position and relates to human cortical complexity

  • Christina Kyrousi,
  • Adam C. O’Neill,
  • Agnieska Brazovskaja,
  • Zhisong He,
  • Pavel Kielkowski,
  • Laure Coquand,
  • Rossella Di Giaimo,
  • Pierpaolo D’ Andrea,
  • Alexander Belka,
  • Andrea Forero Echeverry,
  • Davide Mei,
  • Matteo Lenge,
  • Cristiana Cruceanu,
  • Isabel Y. Buchsbaum,
  • Shahryar Khattak,
  • Guimiot Fabien,
  • Elisabeth Binder,
  • Frances Elmslie,
  • Renzo Guerrini,
  • Alexandre D. Baffet,
  • Stephan A. Sieber,
  • Barbara Treutlein,
  • Stephen P. Robertson,
  • Silvia Cappello

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26447-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Basal progenitors are enriched in gyrencephalic species like humans contributing to neuronal expansion. Here the authors show that LGALS3BP de novo variants are related to reduced cortical complexity and area in humans and that LGALS3BP regulates neural progenitor position in organoids, human fetal tissue and mice.