Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Nfat/calcineurin signaling promotes oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination by transcription factor network tuning

  • Matthias Weider,
  • Laura Julia Starost,
  • Katharina Groll,
  • Melanie Küspert,
  • Elisabeth Sock,
  • Miriam Wedel,
  • Franziska Fröb,
  • Christian Schmitt,
  • Tina Baroti,
  • Anna C. Hartwig,
  • Simone Hillgärtner,
  • Sandra Piefke,
  • Tanja Fadler,
  • Marc Ehrlich,
  • Corinna Ehlert,
  • Martin Stehling,
  • Stefanie Albrecht,
  • Ammar Jabali,
  • Hans R. Schöler,
  • Jürgen Winkler,
  • Tanja Kuhlmann,
  • Michael Wegner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03336-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Oligodendrocyte differentiation is known to depend on transcription factors Sox10, Nkx2.2, and Olig2. Here, the authors show that Nfat/calcineurin signaling contributes to oligodendrocyte differentiation by relieving mutual repression of Nkx2.2 and Olig2.