Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Feedback regulation of apical progenitor fate by immature neurons through Wnt7–Celsr3–Fzd3 signalling

  • Wei Wang,
  • Yves Jossin,
  • Guoliang Chai,
  • Wen-Hui Lien,
  • Fadel Tissir,
  • Andre M. Goffinet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10936
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The switch from neurogenesis to gliogenesis in cortical development is only partially understood. Here the authors show that Wnt-Planar cell polarity signaling in immature cortical neurons activates Notch in neural progenitor cells, thereby tuning the timing of their fate decisions.