Transcriptional Repression by FEZF2 Restricts Alternative Identities of Cortical Projection Neurons
HHS Public Access Author manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author Cell Rep Manuscript Author . Author manuscript; Manuscript Author available in PMC 2021 August 02. Published in final edited form as: Cell Rep. 2021 June 22; 35(12): 109269. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109269. Transcriptional repression by FEZF2 restricts alternative identities of cortical projection neurons Jeremiah Tsyporin1,7, David Tastad1,7, Xiaokuang Ma2, Antoine Nehme2, Thomas Finn1, Liora Huebner1, Guoping Liu3, Daisy Gallardo1, Amr Makhamreh1, Jacqueline M. Roberts1, Solomon Katzman4, Nenad Sestan5, Susan K. McConnell6, Zhengang Yang3, Shenfeng Qiu2, Bin Chen1,8,* 1Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 2Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA 3State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institute for Translational Brain Research, Institutes of Brain Science, Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China 4Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 5Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA 6Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA 7These authors contributed equally 8Lead contact SUMMARY Projection neuron subtype identities in the cerebral cortex are established by expressing pan- cortical and subtype-specific effector genes that execute terminal differentiation programs bestowing neurons with a glutamatergic neuron phenotype and subtype-specific morphology, physiology, and axonal projections. Whether pan-cortical glutamatergic and subtype-specific characteristics are regulated by the same genes or controlled by distinct programs remains largely unknown.
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