Use of "MGE Enhancers" for Labeling and Selection of Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Medial Ganglionic Eminence (MGE) Progenitors and Neurons

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2013 May 10

PMID 23658702

Citations 20

Authors

Ying-Jiun J Chen

Daniel Vogt

Yanling Wang

Axel Visel

Shanni N Silberberg

Cory R Nicholas

Teruko Danjo

Joshua L Pollack

Len A Pennacchio

Stewart Anderson

Yoshiki Sasai

Scott C Baraban

Arnold R Kriegstein

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

John L R Rubenstein

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Abstract

The medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) is an embryonic forebrain structure that generates the majority of cortical interneurons. MGE transplantation into specific regions of the postnatal central nervous system modifies circuit function and improves deficits in mouse models of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, pain, and phencyclidine-induced cognitive deficits. Herein, we describe approaches to generate MGE-like progenitor cells from mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Using a modified embryoid body method, we provided gene expression evidence that mouse ES-derived Lhx6(+) cells closely resemble immature interneurons generated from authentic MGE-derived Lhx6(+) cells. We hypothesized that enhancers that are active in the mouse MGE would be useful tools in detecting when ES cells differentiate into MGE cells. Here we demonstrate the utility of enhancer elements [422 (DlxI12b), Lhx6, 692, 1056, and 1538] as tools to mark MGE-like cells in ES cell differentiation experiments. We found that enhancers DlxI12b, 692, and 1538 are active in Lhx6-GFP(+) cells, while enhancer 1056 is active in Olig2(+) cells. These data demonstrate unique techniques to follow and purify MGE-like derivatives from ES cells, including GABAergic cortical interneurons and oligodendrocytes, for use in stem cell-based therapeutic assays and treatments.

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