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Boundary Cap Cells are Highly Competitive for CNS Remyelination: Fast Migration and Efficient Differentiation in PNS and CNS Myelin‐Forming Cells
Author(s) -
Zujovic V.,
Thibaud J.,
Bachelin C.,
Vidal M.,
Coulpier F.,
Charnay P.,
Topilko P.,
Evercooren A. BaronVan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stem cells
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.159
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1549-4918
pISSN - 1066-5099
DOI - 10.1002/stem.290
Subject(s) - remyelination , biology , myelin , neural crest , central nervous system , population , neuroscience , microbiology and biotechnology , spinal cord , stem cell , embryo , demography , sociology
During development, boundary cap cells (BC) and neural crest cell (NCC) derivatives generate Schwann cells (SC) of the spinal roots and a subpopulation of neurons and satellite cells in the dorsal root ganglia. Despite their stem‐like properties, their therapeutic potential in the diseased central nervous system (CNS) was never explored. The aim of this work was to explore BC therapeutic potential for CNS remyelination. We derived BC from Krox20 Cre × R26R Yfp embryos at E12.5, when Krox20 is exclusively expressed by BC. Combining microdissection and cell fate mapping, we show that acutely isolated BC are a unique population closely related but distinct from NCC and SC precursors. Moreover, when grafted in the demyelinated spinal cord, BC progeny expands in the lesion through a combination of time‐regulated processes including proliferation and differentiation. Furthermore, when grafted away from the lesion, BC progeny, in contrast to committed SC, show a high migratory potential mediated through enhanced interactions with astrocytes and white matter, and possibly with polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule expression. In response to demyelinated axons of the CNS, BC progeny generates essentially myelin‐forming SC. However, in contact with axons and astrocytes, some of them generate also myelin‐forming oligodendrocytes. There are two primary outcomes of this study. First, the high motility of BC and their progeny, in addition to their capacity to remyelinate CNS axons, supports the view that BC are a reservoir of interest to promote CNS remyelination. Second, from a developmental point of view, BC behavior in the demyelinated CNS raises the question of the boundary between central and peripheral myelinating cells. S TEM C ELLS 2010;28:470–479

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