Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

A cell fitness selection model for neuronal survival during development

  • Yiqiao Wang,
  • Haohao Wu,
  • Paula Fontanet,
  • Simone Codeluppi,
  • Natalia Akkuratova,
  • Charles Petitpré,
  • Yongtao Xue-Franzén,
  • Karen Niederreither,
  • Anil Sharma,
  • Fabio Da Silva,
  • Glenda Comai,
  • Gulistan Agirman,
  • Domenico Palumberi,
  • Sten Linnarsson,
  • Igor Adameyko,
  • Aziz Moqrich,
  • Andreas Schedl,
  • Gioele La Manno,
  • Saida Hadjab,
  • François Lallemend

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12119-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Programmed cell death is an important part of tissue development, and traditionally it is considered that neuronal death is a stochastic process in response to neurotrophic factor deprivation. Here the authors show that for TrkC+ proprioreceptors, which neurons die is predetermined molecularly by how much TrkC is present, as well as by a gene expression signature.