TY - JOUR
T1 - A complete temporal transcription factor series in the fly visual system
AU - Konstantinides, Nikolaos
AU - Holguera, Isabel
AU - Rossi, Anthony M.
AU - Escobar, Aristides
AU - Dudragne, Liébaut
AU - Chen, Yen Chung
AU - Tran, Thinh N.
AU - Martínez Jaimes, Azalia M.
AU - Özel, Mehmet Neset
AU - Simon, Félix
AU - Shao, Zhiping
AU - Tsankova, Nadejda M.
AU - Fullard, John F.
AU - Walldorf, Uwe
AU - Roussos, Panos
AU - Desplan, Claude
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2022/4/14
Y1 - 2022/4/14
N2 - The brain consists of thousands of neuronal types that are generated by stem cells producing different neuronal types as they age. In Drosophila, this temporal patterning is driven by the successive expression of temporal transcription factors (tTFs)1–6. Here we used single-cell mRNA sequencing to identify the complete series of tTFs that specify most Drosophila optic lobe neurons. We verify that tTFs regulate the progression of the series by activating the next tTF(s) and repressing the previous one(s), and also identify more complex mechanisms of regulation. Moreover, we establish the temporal window of origin and birth order of each neuronal type in the medulla and provide evidence that these tTFs are sufficient to explain the generation of all of the neuronal diversity in this brain region. Finally, we describe the first steps of neuronal differentiation and show that these steps are conserved in humans. We find that terminal differentiation genes, such as neurotransmitter-related genes, are present as transcripts, but not as proteins, in immature larval neurons. This comprehensive analysis of a temporal series of tTFs in the optic lobe offers mechanistic insights into how tTF series are regulated, and how they can lead to the generation of a complete set of neurons.
AB - The brain consists of thousands of neuronal types that are generated by stem cells producing different neuronal types as they age. In Drosophila, this temporal patterning is driven by the successive expression of temporal transcription factors (tTFs)1–6. Here we used single-cell mRNA sequencing to identify the complete series of tTFs that specify most Drosophila optic lobe neurons. We verify that tTFs regulate the progression of the series by activating the next tTF(s) and repressing the previous one(s), and also identify more complex mechanisms of regulation. Moreover, we establish the temporal window of origin and birth order of each neuronal type in the medulla and provide evidence that these tTFs are sufficient to explain the generation of all of the neuronal diversity in this brain region. Finally, we describe the first steps of neuronal differentiation and show that these steps are conserved in humans. We find that terminal differentiation genes, such as neurotransmitter-related genes, are present as transcripts, but not as proteins, in immature larval neurons. This comprehensive analysis of a temporal series of tTFs in the optic lobe offers mechanistic insights into how tTF series are regulated, and how they can lead to the generation of a complete set of neurons.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41586-022-04564-w
DO - 10.1038/s41586-022-04564-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 35388222
AN - SCOPUS:85127640296
SN - 0028-0836
VL - 604
SP - 316
EP - 322
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
IS - 7905
ER -