Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Transcription factor network analysis identifies REST/NRSF as an intrinsic regulator of CNS regeneration in mice

  • Yuyan Cheng,
  • Yuqin Yin,
  • Alice Zhang,
  • Alexander M. Bernstein,
  • Riki Kawaguchi,
  • Kun Gao,
  • Kyra Potter,
  • Hui-Ya Gilbert,
  • Yan Ao,
  • Jing Ou,
  • Catherine J. Fricano-Kugler,
  • Jeffrey L. Goldberg,
  • Zhigang He,
  • Clifford J. Woolf,
  • Michael V. Sofroniew,
  • Larry I. Benowitz,
  • Daniel H. Geschwind

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31960-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Here the authors couple an integrative genomic analysis with substantial in vitro and in vivo experimental validation, identifying REST as a novel suppressor of a pro-regenerative gene program and CNS axon regeneration in mice.