Formation of the Brain by Stem Cell Divisions of Large Neuroblasts in Oikopleura Dioica, a Simple Chordate

Overview

Journal Dev Genes Evol

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 May 25

PMID 37231211

Authors

Misako Konishi

Kanae Kishi

Ryo Morita

Atsuko Yamada

Takeshi A Onuma

Hiroki Nishida

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Abstract

Stem cell division contributes to the generation of various cell types during animal development, especially a diverse pool of neural cells in the nervous system. One example is reiterated unequal stem cell divisions, in which a large stem cell undergoes a series of oriented unequal divisions to produce a chain of small daughter cells that differentiate. We show that reiterated unequal stem cell divisions are involved in the formation of the brain in simple chordate appendicularians (larvaceans). Two large neuroblasts in the anterior and middle of the brain-forming region of hatched larvae were observed. They produced at least 30 neural cells out of 96 total brain cells before completion of brain formation at 10 hours after fertilization by reiterated unequal stem cell divisions. The daughter cells of the anterior neuroblast were postmitotic, and the number was at least 19. The neuroblast produced small daughter neural cells posteriorly every 20 min. The neural cells first moved toward the dorsal side, turned in the anterior direction, aligned in a single line according to their birth order, and showed collective movement to accumulate in the anterior part of the brain. The anterior neuroblast originated from the right-anterior blastomeres of the eight-cell embryos and the right a222 blastomere of the 64-cell embryo. The posterior neuroblast also showed reiterated unequal stem cell divisions, and generated at least 11 neural cells. Sequential unequal stem cell divisions without stem cell growth have been observed in protostomes, such as insects and annelids. The results provide the first examples of this kind of stem cell division during brain formation in non-vertebrate deuterostomes.

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