Journal: Development (Cambridge, England)
Article Title: Sp2 regulates late neurogenic but not early expansive divisions of neural stem cells underlying population growth in the mouse cortex
doi: 10.1242/dev.186056
Figure Lengend Snippet: Clonal analysis of cortical NPCs in the presence and absence of Sp2. (A) Schematic of experimental paradigm to induce individual cortical clones for analysis using the Nestin-creERT2 transgenic mouse that expresses tamoxifen-inducible cre under the control of the Nestin promoter (NcreER) in combination with MADM and floxed Sp2 alleles. Tamoxifen administration at E11.5 permits cre entry into the nucleus to induce highly sparse MADM recombination events in mitotic NPCs. Embryos were sacrificed at E18.5 for fixation, serial sectioning and immunohistochemistry to visualize and quantify clones. (B) Images of serial sections containing individual clones induced at E11.5 in NcreER:MADM:wt/wt and NcreER:MADM:F/+ embryos and harvested at E18.5. Scale bar: 50 µm. (C) Representative mapped clones reconstructed from NcreER:MADM:wt/wt and NcreER:MADM:F/+ embryos. (D) G minus R (G-R) values for total clone composition and by layer in the E18.5 cortex. All layers: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=0.7405, P=0.46; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=1.894, P=0.067. SEZ/WM: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=0.4133, P=0.68; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=1.738, P=0.091. DL: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=0.415, P=0.68; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=0.6746, P=0.50. UL: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=0.8134, P=0.42; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=2.865, P=0.0071. NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, n=37; NcreER:MADM:F/+, n=35 clones. One-sample t-test. *P<0.05. (E) Laminar distribution of red and green MADM cells in individual clones (dots) by genotype. SEZ/WM: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=0.9489, P=0.35; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=0.6531, P=0.43. DL: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=0.1238, P=0.9; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=0.25, P=0.80. UL: NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, t=1.157, P=0.251; NcreER:MADM:F/+, t=1.851, P=0.067. NcreER:MADM:wt/wt, n=37; NcreER:MADM:F/+, n=35 clones. Student's t-test. *P<0.05. Dots represent values from individual embryos. Data are mean±s.e.m.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies used were: anti-Actin-HRP (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, sc-1615, 1:5000), anti-GAPDH-HRP (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, sc20357, 1:5000), chicken anti-GFP (Abcam, ab13970, 1:2000), rabbit anti-RFP (Abcam, ab62341, 1:500), mCherry (Abcam, ab167453, 1:1000), rabbit anti-Tbr2 (Abcam, ab23345, 1:300), mouse anti-Tuj1 (Covance, 801201, 1:500), mouse anti-Pax6 (Chemicon, MAB5554, 1:500), rabbit anti-Pax6 (Covance, 901301, 1:500), mouse anti-PH3 (Abcam, ab14955, 1:1000), rabbit anti-Sp2 (Sigma-Aldrich, HPA003357, 1:1000), rabbit anti-Sp2 (Novus, NB100-92358, 1:1000) and mouse anti-NeuN (Millipore, MAB377, 1:1000).
Techniques: Clone Assay, Transgenic Assay, Control, Immunohistochemistry