机构：[1]Cell Therapy Center, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Ministry of Education, 45 Changchun Street, Beijing 100053, PR China神经变性病教育部重点实验室
Knockout and knockdown studies have shown that the polycomb gene Bmi-1 is important for mouse postnatal and prenatal neural stem cells (NSCs) self-renewal and proliferation. Different downstream targets of Bmi-1 gene have been identified in mouse, including Ink4a/Arf locus in adult NSCs and p21 gene in embryonic NSCs. However, little is known regarding the role of Bmi-1 in human NSCs. Here, using lentiviral-delivered shRNA knockdown and over-expression techniques, we examined whether Bmi-1 is required for the self-renewal and proliferation of human fetal NSCs (hfNSCs) in vitro. Our results showed that shRNA-mediated Bmi-1 reduction profoundly impaired hfNSCs self-renewal and proliferation, whereas Bmi-1 over-expression promoted hfNSCs self-renewal capacity. Interestingly, different from mouse embryonic NSCs. Bmi-1 repressed Ink4a/Arf locus instead of p21 gene in human fetal NSCs. Moreover, Bmi-1 knockdown induced obvious senescence phenotype in hfNSCs. Further studies on the Bmi-1 pathways would help to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying hfNSCs self-renewal and human brain development. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
第一作者机构：[1]Cell Therapy Center, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Ministry of Education, 45 Changchun Street, Beijing 100053, PR China
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通讯机构：[1]Cell Therapy Center, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Ministry of Education, 45 Changchun Street, Beijing 100053, PR China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714)：
Yang Wang,Yunqian Guan,Fang Wang,et al.Bmi-1 regulates self-renewal, proliferation and senescence of human fetal neural stem cells in vitro[J].NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS.2010,476(2):74-78.doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.006.
APA：
Yang Wang,Yunqian Guan,Fang Wang,Aihua Huang,Shuyan Wang&Y. Alex Zhang.(2010).Bmi-1 regulates self-renewal, proliferation and senescence of human fetal neural stem cells in vitro.NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS,476,(2)
MLA：
Yang Wang,et al."Bmi-1 regulates self-renewal, proliferation and senescence of human fetal neural stem cells in vitro".NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS 476..2(2010):74-78
