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Proteoglycans in brain development

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Proteoglycans, as part of the extracellular or cell-surface milieu of most tissues and organ systems, play important roles in morphogenesis by modulating cell-matrix or cell-cell interactions, cell adhesiveness, or by binding and presenting growth and differentiation factors. Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans which constitute the major population of proteoglycans in the central nervous system may influence formation of neuronal nuclei, establishment of boundaries for axonal growth and act as modulators of neuronal outgrowth during brain development, as well as during regeneration after injury. There is a paucity of information on the role of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in central nervous system organogenesis. In the chick embryo, aggrecan has a regionally specific and developmentally regulated expression profile during brain development. By Northern and Western blot analysis, aggrecan expression is first detected in chick brain on embryonic day 7 (E7), increases from E7 to E13, declines markedly after E16, and is not evident in hatchling brains. The time course and pattern of aggrecan expression observed in ventricular zone cells suggested that it might play a role in gliogenesis. We have analyzed the role of aggrecan during brain development using a aggrecan-deficient model, nanomelia. In nanomelic chicks, expression and levels of neurocan and brevican is not affected, indicating a non-redundant role for these members of the aggrecan gene family. Our analysis of the aggrecan-deficient model found a severely altered phenotype which affects cell behavior in a neuronal culture paradigm and expression of astrocytic markers in vivo. Taken together our results suggest a function for aggrecan in the specification of a sub-set of glia precursors that might give rise to astrocytes in vivo. Published in 2004.

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Schwartz, N.B., Domowicz, M. Proteoglycans in brain development. Glycoconj J 21, 329–341 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GLYC.0000046278.34016.36

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