2021
Regulation of prefrontal patterning and connectivity by retinoic acid
Shibata M, Pattabiraman K, Lorente-Galdos B, Andrijevic D, Kim SK, Kaur N, Muchnik SK, Xing X, Santpere G, Sousa AMM, Sestan N. Regulation of prefrontal patterning and connectivity by retinoic acid. Nature 2021, 598: 483-488. PMID: 34599305, PMCID: PMC9018119, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03953-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrefrontal cortexRetinoic acidGranular layer 4Neocortex of humansRetinoic acid signalingCerebral cortexRetinoic acid receptorsMotor cortexMotor areaMediodorsal thalamusFetal developmentCortical expansionAcid receptorsGenetic deletionDendritic spinogenesisLayer 4Synthesizing enzymesCortexAcid signalingNeural developmentMiceCritical roleSignalingThalamusSpinogenesis
2020
Dissecting transcriptomic signatures of neuronal differentiation and maturation using iPSCs
Burke EE, Chenoweth JG, Shin JH, Collado-Torres L, Kim SK, Micali N, Wang Y, Colantuoni C, Straub RE, Hoeppner DJ, Chen HY, Sellers A, Shibbani K, Hamersky GR, Diaz Bustamante M, Phan BN, Ulrich WS, Valencia C, Jaishankar A, Price AJ, Rajpurohit A, Semick SA, Bürli RW, Barrow JC, Hiler DJ, Page SC, Martinowich K, Hyde TM, Kleinman JE, Berman KF, Apud JA, Cross AJ, Brandon NJ, Weinberger DR, Maher BJ, McKay RDG, Jaffe AE. Dissecting transcriptomic signatures of neuronal differentiation and maturation using iPSCs. Nature Communications 2020, 11: 462. PMID: 31974374, PMCID: PMC6978526, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14266-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsNeural precursor cellsExpression dataSingle-cell expression dataNeuronal differentiationSequencing read alignmentsInduced pluripotent stem cellsEarly neuronal differentiationPluripotent stem cellsTranscriptomic resourcesIPSC donorNeuronal culturesSubclonal linesNeural differentiationTranscriptomic signaturesHuman neural precursor cellsNeuronal cellsStem cellsPrecursor cellsCell sortingGlobal patternsPowerful modelSubset of neuronsRead alignmentDifferentiation